Silver SPUR Awards Luncheon 2011
Silver SPUR Awards Luncheon 2011
10:30 a.m.
Once a year, we pause to cast the spotlight on individuals whose goals and achievements exemplify the highest aspirations of our city and region. Thank you to all those who joined San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, chairs Alexa Arena of Forest City Development and Antony Ritch of Westfield and 2,000 fellow citizens to pay tribute to a select group of individuals who make our city and region a better place to live and work.
Check out the photos from 2011's sold-out event.
2011 HONOREES
Natalie Berg - Educator, City College Board member, and developer
Art Gensler - Architect, CEO, and business visionary
Rick Laubscher - Transit advocate and creator the Market Street Railway historic streetcar system
Dale Minami - Civil rights attorney & co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus
CHAIRS
Alexa Arena, Forest City Development
Antony Ritch, Westfield
Date and Time
Monday, October 31, 2011
Reception—10:30 a.m.
Luncheon & Awards Ceremony—12 p.m.
ADMISSION
Tickets are no longer available for purchase online.
We will do our best to accommodate those attempting to purchase tickets at the door on the day of the event.
Individual Tickets: $175.
Sponsorships: $500-$25,000.
[refund policy]
LOCATION
Moscone Center West, 3rd Floor
747 Howard Street (between 4th and 5th streets)
San Francisco, CA 94105
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DIRECTIONS
Via BART, Muni Metro -- Disembark at the Powell Street Station. Exit to Fourth and Market Streets. Turn right on Fourth, walk two blocks south to Howard and turn left. The Moscone Center is located on the 700 block of Howard Street. You'll find Moscone South on your right and Moscone North on your left. Moscone West is located at Fourth and Howard streets with a second entrance on Fourth Street between Howard and Mission Street.
Parking -- Available in 5th & Mission Garage
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More Info
For questions regarding about tickets, sponsorship and event details please contact SPUR Event Manager Kelly Hardesty at 415-644-4288 or events@spur.org.
Host Committee
Dave Hartley, Co-Chair
Teresa Rea, Co-Chair
SPUR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all donations are tax deductibe to the full extent of the law. Our tax ID is 94-149-8232.
Contact SPUR for more information about sponsorship opportunities for this year's Silver SPUR Awards Luncheon, 415-644-4288 or events@spur.org.
SPONSOR TIMELINE
Weekly: Sponsors added every Friday to SPUR event website
Sep. 9: Deadline for inclusion in print invite (sent to 10,000 community leaders)
Sep. 12, Oct. 3, Oct. 17: Deadlines for inclusion in email invitations
Sep. 12, Oct. 31: Deadlines for inclusion in SPUR’s Urbanist event advertisements
Oct. 21: Deadline for inclusion in event printed program & signage
SPONSOR LEVELS & BENEFITS
Contact SPUR for more information about sponsorship opportunities for this year's Silver SPUR Awards Luncheon, 415-644-4288 or events@spur.org
AECOM • ARCADIS/Malcolm Pirnie • Arup • AT&T • BRE Properties Inc. • California Pacific Medical Center • Degenkolb Engineers • Emerald Fund, Inc. • Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP • Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. • Herrero Contractors, Inc. • The Koret Foundation • Lennar Corporation • MBH Architects • Millennium Partners • MJM Management Group • NRG Energy Center • Parkmerced • San Francisco International Airport • Roselyne C. Swig • Tishman Speyer Properties • Townsend Public Affairs Inc. • Turner Construction Company • Union Bank • Webcor Builders
PILLAR SPONSORS
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP • Anonymous • Archstone • Aspiriant • BAR Architects • Andy & Sara Barnes • The Boldt Company • Buchalter Nemer • Mark Buell & Susie Tompkins Buell • Cahill Contractors • California Academy of Sciences • Cannon Constructors North, Inc • Carmel Partners • Cassidy Turley BT Commercial • Charles Pankow Builders, Ltd. • Charles Salter Associates • Chinatown CDC • Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLP • Comcast • Cox, Castle, Nicolson • Deloitte / Wallace Wertsch • DPR Construction • Eastdil Secured • EHDD Architecture • Elizabeth Seifel Fund / Seifel Consulting Inc. • Rob Evans & Terry Micheau • Farella Braun + Martel LLP • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • Flood Building • Flynn Investments • FME Architecture + Design • David A. Friedman & Paulette J. Meyer • Gerson Bakar & Associates • Golden Gate University • Anne Halsted & Wells Whitney • Hanson Bridgett LLP • David & Jane Hartley • The Hellman Family • Vince & Amanda Hoenigman • Jackson Pacific Ventures • John & Marcia Goldman Philanthropic Fund • The John Stewart Company • J.P. Morgan Chase • KMD Architects • John Kriken & Katherine Koelsch Kriken • Lend Lease • Richard Lonergan • Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP • Dean Macris & Ruthe Stein • Market Street Railway • McKesson Corporation • Minami Tamaki LLP • Mission Bay Development Group • Morrison & Foerster LLP • Moscone, Emblidge & Sater, LLP • MPA Design • Nibbi Brothers General Contractors • Larry Nibbi • Sergio Nibbi • Northern California Carpenters Regional Council • Ogden Contract Interiors, Inc. • Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) • Parsons/Kwan Hemni • Perkins Coie • Perkins + Will • PIER 39 • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP • Polaris Group • Port of San Francisco • Prado Group • The Related Companies of California • Reuben & Junius, LLP • ROMA Design Group • Bill & Dewey Rosetti • Paul Sack • Safeway Inc. • The San Francisco Foundation • San Francisco Giants • San Francisco Travel • Sedgwick, LLP • Lynn & Paul Sedway • Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP • Solomon Cordwell Buenz • The Swig Company • Swinerton Builders • Target • TMG/Avant Housing • Tom Eliot Fisch • Turnstone Consulting Corporation • UCSF • Universal Paragon Corporation • University of San Francisco • U.S. Bank of Northern California • Wilson Meany Sullivan LLC • Woods Bagot • WSP Flack & Kurtz
CORNERSTONE SPONSORS
Academy of Art University • Arroyo & Coates Commercial Real Estate Services • A.R. Sanchez Corea & Associates • Atkins • AvalonBay Communities Inc. • Avila and Associates Consulting Engineers, Inc. • Barbary Coast Consulting • Bauldauf Catton Von Eckartsberg Architects • BergDavis Public Affairs • Birmingham Builders • Bogdan & Frasco • Boston Properties • BRIDGE Housing Corporation • The Buck Institute • Burr Pilger Mayer • Cathedral Hill Plaza, an ADCO Company • CGI • CH2M HILL • Jim Chappell • Christiani Johnson Architects • City CarShare • David Baker + Partners Architects • Duane Morris LLP • Environmental Science Associates • Equity Community Builders • Jean Fraser & Geoff Gordon-Creed • Friend Family Foundation, Robert & Donald Friend • GreenLeaf • Handel Architects, LLP • Stanley D. Herzstein & Lynn Altshuler • HOK • Howard Rice • George & Leslie Hume • Hyatt Regency San Francisco • Jacobs • James E. Roberts - Obayashi Corporation • Steven Kay • Patricia Klitgaard • Lurie Management, LLC • MacKenzie Communications • Macys.com • Market-Turk Company • Mark Horton / Architecture • Beverly Mills • Nishkian Menninger • JaMel Perkins • Plant Construction Company • Presidio Bank • Public Financial Management • N. Teresa Rea • Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP • Toni Rembe • Sack Properties • Steinberg Investments • Strada Investments • V. Fei Tsen & Wayne Lew • Wilbur-Ellis Company • Dede Wilsey
CAPSTONE SPONSORS
American Leadership Forum • Backstrom McCarley Berry & Co. LLC • Alvin H. Baum Jr. • Bingham Osborn Scarborough • Claudine Cheng • Lynn Deegan-McGraw • Michael Kossman • Northern California Community Loan Fund • Toby & Sally Rosenblatt • Sanger & Olsen • Shartsis Friese LLP • Sierra Maestra Properties • Jacqueline Young
SPUR thanks those supporters who come out to support Silver SPUR year-after-year. View our 2010 event sponsors.
SPUR is proud to announce our 2011 Silver SPUR Award Honorees:
Natalie Berg, Ed.D. has influenced San Francisco as an educator, civic leader and land use consultant. In her 30 plus years at City College she has served as a professor, dean and most recently as an elected member and president of the Board of Trustees. Natalie recently retired from 12 years of service at Forest City Development where she was responsible for obtaining the entitlements for the Westfield San Francisco Centre and now consults on land use issues. Natalie has served as the president of the Yerba Buena Alliance, vice president of the Market Street Association and as a member of numerous other community and neighborhood groups.
Art Gensler is a business visionary who has transformed the industry of architecture and design through his entrepreneurial creativity and leadership. In 1965, he co-founded Gensler, a San Francisco architecture and design firm, now a 3,000-person firm with 30 offices worldwide. A Cornell University graduate, Art is on the Advisory Council of Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Art’s civic leadership includes service to the Buck Institute for Aging, the California College of the Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As a founding member of the National AIA Committee on Interior Architecture, Art is an AIA Fellow and a professional member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Rick Laubscher is most well known for his transformative impact on Market Street’s historic streetcars, but his transportation advocacy and commitment to San Francisco’s important historic treasures extends well beyond the Market Street Railway. A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Rick and his family have long been engaged in the vibrant life of Market Street. Among his civic contributions, Rick served as founding board chair of The City Club of San Francisco, on SPUR’s board and transportation committee, and on the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce board. Over his career, Rick has been a radio and television news reporter, a corporate public relations executive and a civic activist.
Dale Minami has served as a Bay Area attorney for four decades, garnering nationwide recognition for his civil rights leadership in the process. A personal injury attorney with Minami Tamaki LLP by practice, Dale has made substantial contributions to the advancement of Asian-American rights. He helped found the Asian Law Caucus and the Asian American Bar Association, both the first of their kind in the United States. He has been involved in significant litigation concerning the civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu vs. United States, which overturned a 40-year-old conviction arising from the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Dale has also influenced public policy through his service on numerous state and federal judicial commissions.
Please join us as we celebrate the civic contributions of these remarkable individuals on Monday, October 31, 2011 in San Francisco.
ALEXA ARENA Vice President, DevelopmentPresently Ms. Arena is working on the redevelopment of approximately 4-acres in downtown San Francisco in partnership with the land owner, the Hearst Corporation. Referred to as the 5M Project, the Project is a pioneering model for both conceptualizing and fostering communities that serve our innovation economy. It reframes real estate as a tool for the creative process and uses a series of unique techniques to instigate demand and establish place as a platform for innovation. Similarly, Ms. Arena is leading the Pier 70 project, a waterfront revitalization at the edge of the dogpatch neighborhood that is a public-private partnership with the Port of San Francisco. Ms. Arena is a SPUR Board Member.
ANTONY RITCH is Senior Vice President Development & Regional Leader – Northwest, for Westfield US. In this role, he leads the company’s developments and provides regional leadership for the Westfield portfolio in Northern California and Washington State consisting of approximately US$3.5 billion in total asset value. Since arriving in San Francisco in 2010, Antony has been committed to further enhancing the vibrant Yerba Buena district with the current revitalization of Metreon and continued investments at Westfield San Francisco Centre.During his 15 year career with Westfield, Antony has worked throughout Australia and the United States, in Management, Marketing, Leasing and Development. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales (Australia) and an MBA from the University of Cambridge (UK).
The Westfield Group has interests in and operates one of the world's largest shopping centre portfolios with investment interests in 124 shopping centres across Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Brazil encompassing around 25,000 retail outlets and total assets under management of over US$50 billion.
