{"id":714,"date":"2019-04-10T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=714"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:47:36","slug":"ub-alumnus-arnold-williams-featured-legend-in-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2019\/04\/10\/ub-alumnus-arnold-williams-featured-legend-in-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"UB Alumnus, Arnold Williams Featured &#8216;Legend&#8217; in Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/040219-edits_90_46617592415_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-716\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/040219-edits_90_46617592415_o-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"President Kurt Schmoke and Arnold Williams\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The University of Baltimore&#8217;s annual celebration of leaders in real estate and economic development, &#8220;Lessons From Legends,&#8221;\u00a0featured alumnus <strong>Arnold Williams.<\/strong> The 1972 accounting graduate is a CPA and\u00a0the managing director\u00a0 at Abrams, Foster, Nole &amp; Williams, a minority-owned certified public accounting firm in Baltimore, came back to UB to be honored as this year&#8217;s &#8220;legend&#8221; and to share his experiences influence and shape\u00a0Baltimore City&#8217;s landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, joined UB <strong>President Kurt Schmoke<\/strong> for a conversation about the approaches Williams takes to move\u00a0 the city and the state forward in areas of development. During Schmoke&#8217;s time as\u00a0the mayor of Baltimre, he\u00a0appointed\u00a0Williams\u00a0to the\u00a0board Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC), a non-profit organization, which serves as the\u00a0economic development agency for the City of Baltimore.\u00a0Their long history and friendship made the conversation rich with takeaways for the audience, including what it means to have a &#8220;win-win&#8221; when working with the community, developers, and the city.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oKtvZydqTfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view the 2019 Lessons From Legends\u00a0event<\/a> visit our YourTube\u00a0channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Baltimore&#8217;s annual celebration of leaders in real estate and economic development, &#8220;Lessons From Legends,&#8221;\u00a0featured alumnus Arnold Williams. The 1972 accounting graduate is a CPA and\u00a0the managing director\u00a0 at Abrams, Foster, Nole &amp; Williams, a minority-owned certified public accounting firm in Baltimore, came back to UB to be honored as this year&#8217;s &#8220;legend&#8221;<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2019\/04\/10\/ub-alumnus-arnold-williams-featured-legend-in-real-estate\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[91,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}