(Omaha.com) Five inductees into the Omaha-area CRE Summit Hall of Fame have contributed a cumulative 200 years to local commercial real estate: two of them design it, two make sure it complies with the law and another has mastered most areas of title insurance. The 2017 hall of famers will be recognized March 24 at the 28th annual commercial real estate summit, an all-day event at the CenturyLink Center expected to draw about 800 real estate and business professionals. Speake

Omaha's premier CRE Summit will be held Friday, March 24 in an all day event at Omaha's CenturyLink Center. Smith Slusky's own Jerry Slusky has been the driving force behind the CRE Summit for over 25 years. He has promoted the CRE Summit from a small, Creighton University classroom event to almost 700 attendees in 2016. The 2017 program is underway with the assistance of a 30 member board including Jerry Slusky, Dan Smith and Tom McLeay. Early event registration is on now th

We had the opportunity to discuss the growing class sizes and interest in Commercial Real Estate as a profession with UNO professor David Beberwyk. Professor Beberwyk reported that there are 109 students in the freshman Appraisal class. The spring semester class has recently been added to the class offerings due to demand. And, this enrollment is more than double the normal size of this class. While there may be many reasons for this increase, one may be the requirements have

The firm has been practicing since 1978 and we recently transitioned in January 2016 to Smith Slusky Law. In the last few years, Jerry Slusky and myself have seen the explosive growth in Omaha as an opportunity to grow the law firm into a strong business, banking and real estate practice. This strategy works nicely with the already established litigation, estate planning and mediation practice areas that have strong attorneys already in residence. We have worked hard to encou