Goizueta’s Inaugural Real Estate Case Competition Takes on Atlanta BeltLine Project

Is a Community Land Trust a viable way to create permanent affordable workforce housing on the Atlanta BeltLine, a 22-mile perimeter that links 45 urban neighborhoods around the central city? That was the question posed in the inaugural Real Estate Case Competition of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Fifteen Emory students, including five from Emory’s School of Law and one BBA, competed on three teams in the case competition. Roy T. Black, a professor in the practice of finance and director of Goizueta’s new real estate program, selected the case after meeting with two members of the nonprofit BeltLine Partnership (BLP), including BLP Program Director Rob Brawner 06MBA, and because it had a broad-cased public policy component and was very complex. Indeed, days before the presentations, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that school tax money cannot be used for BeltLine development. “This was a real world example of the kind of thing they will be doing after they graduate,” notes Black. “There is real value in what they did in these presentations.”

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