SMDRA’s Power Lunches are held 10 times a year featuring some of our most popular topics, with noted guest speakers from the real estate industry. All Power Lunches are held in the SMDRA Event Center unless otherwise noted. If you plan to attend, please register ahead of time, following SMDRA class policies.
DATE: Thursday, January 5, 2023
TIME: 11:00am-11:30am – Lunch and Networking
11:20am-1:00pm – Program
TOPIC: 2023 Economic Forecast for Metro Denver
LOCATION: SMDRA Event Center, This is an IN-PERSON EVENT
SPEAKER: Patty Silverstein, President and Chief Economist of Development Research Partners
SESSION INFORMATION: The annual look forward to the trends that are expected to influence employment activity, consumer spending, residential real estate, and commercial real estate in Colorado and Metro Denver during the year ahead.
SPEAKER BIO: Patricia Silverstein is the president and chief economist of Development Research Partners, a Jefferson County, Colorado-based real estate analysis and economic development research company founded in 1994. Ms. Silverstein’s expertise is in economic research and economic development, including industry cluster studies and strategic economic development planning. She has extensive experience in preparing economic and fiscal impact analysis for community development purposes. In addition, she serves as the consulting chief economist for the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. and the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. In these roles, she compiles, interprets, and forecasts economic and demographic data for the Denver metropolitan area and performs in-depth research on issues and proposed developments impacting the region. Patty provides numerous presentations on state and local economic conditions to business and professional organizations throughout the year.
Ms. Silverstein received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Patty is active in a number of business and professional organizations, including member of the Governor’s Revenue Estimating Advisory Committee, the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), the Economic Development Council of Colorado, and the Denver Association of Business Economists.
POWER LUNCH SPONSOR: Land Title
Visit Land Title online at www.ltgc.com
