The annual Sheldon Seevak Real Estate Business Plan Competition Reception Dinner was held on April 27th, 2007. Now in its seventh year, the Competition encourages all students enrolled at CBS to develop and submit business plans for feedback from industry mentors and judges, as well as for cash prizes.Sheldon Seevak, the competition creator and sponsor and the founder of Goldman Sachs’ real estate practice, joined Professor Chris Mayer and twenty five Real Estate students to watch as the competing teams presented their final business plans. Robert Berne ’68, formerly of Milstein Properties, and Mark Lanspa ’90, Vice President at Goldman Sachs, were both present to judge the teams’ final presentations.The first prize of $5,000 went to Omar Nasser Eddin ’07, who presented “Hazel Run”, a Medical, Office, and Commercial Park Development plan for Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Mike Lupo, ’07, took the $2,000 second prize, with his plan for “Clarendon Gardens”, a condominium conversion plan for a complex in Flatbush Brooklyn. The third prize of $1,000 went to Isaac Abid ’07, Sara Batterton ’07, Geoff Goldstein ’07 and Caroline Macdonald ’07, who presented “The Manhattan (ville) Project”, a plan to capitalize on Columbia University’s planned expansion by “identifying redevelopment opportunities for market-rate multifamily housing adjacent to the campus footprint.”