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ULI SPRING MEETING ULI SPRING MEETING
Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States May 12-14, 2025
Panelist

Andrea Wenner

Director of Investor Relations and Strategic Partnerships MSquared

Andrea is the Director of Investor Relations and Strategic Partnerships at MSquared, leading capital raising efforts and spearheading external partnerships. Prior to joining MSquared, Andrea was the Managing Director of Development & External Affairs and Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives at East Harlem Tutorial Program. While at EHTP, Andrea led a $45 million capital campaign and oversaw annual fundraising efforts, increasing giving by nearly 300%. She also spearheaded a $75MM project to build a high school, managed the ground-up development and opening of a $35MM PreK-8 school building, and launched the organization's Pre-K program. Previously, Andrea was the Founder and Executive Director of Out2Play, a non-profit organization that built 180 playgrounds in New York City public schools. Andrea oversaw the development cycle, raised over $35 million in public and private funding, and over the course of eight years, successfully fulfilled the organization's goal to build a playground for every NYC elementary school that needed one. Andrea received her B.A. from Yale University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Asphalt Green.

Speaking at

Mission Priority
Thu Apr 11 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time New York Hilton Midtown - Level 2, Gramercy Suite

Developing “Missing Middle” Housing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Creative Financing Tools

This session will cover the opportunities and challenges in developing mixed- or middle-income, infill multifamily development—often referred to as "missing middle" housing. Using real development case studies presented by three developers, the panel will cover both rental multifamily and homeownership development models. The case studies will show how we can deliver housing more affordably than typical market-rate development and more efficiently than typical affordable housing development, using creative financing tools that blend private impact equity with strategic public financing sources.