On Monday, February 29, the Joint Center for Housing Studies will present “Cities Within a City,” a talk by Roberto Moreno, the Co-Founder & President CEO of Amarilo Holdings, a leading residential, retail, office, and industrial real estate development group engaging in projects in key urban growth hubs in Colombia and Panama. Mr. Moreno will be speaking about their project “Ciudad Verde,” a highly successful large scale residential real estate urban development project launched in 2010 to develop 49,532 low-income housing units in the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia. This “city within a city” was designed as an environmentally sustainable expansion, with 67% of total area for residential use.

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