Student program helps NAIOP build a bridge to real estate industry's future

January 19, 2016

Joe Zagari wasn’t necessarily looking to network, much less find an internship in commercial real estate.

But the Rutgers University graduate student would accomplish both after accepting the invitation of classmate Mark Russo, NAIOP New Jersey’s education coordinator, to attend one of the organization’s events in 2012. Zagari, then a student at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, was preparing to hear Dean James Hughes speak when he sat down next to Mark Goldstein.

NJBIZ.com, January 19

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