MIT Center for Real Estate

🎧 New Podcast: Resilience and Vision: A Developers Journey… In this episode, MSRED student Cherry Tang sits down with MSRED alumnus Carlos Rosso, Founder & President of Rosso Development.

Carlos Rosso shares his journey from Argentina to MIT to lead developer shaping Miami's skyline. After decades building across multiple continents and navigating the 2008 financial crisis at Related Group, he launched his independent firm and is still applying lessons from MIT to reimagine real estate development.

🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XEUivzLtMD2VmUVbjhV4D?si=R1gDN6zPTI-r3SFg1Wz0cw
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/x5HGD-XYKwo

MIT Alumni Association MIT School of Architecture + Planning

Clay Anderson MSRED Candidate 2026 spent IAP working at Copper Acre with alumni Adam Grounds on urban mixed-use development projects.

Slide 2: IAP Highlight -> "We visited the winter wonderland of New Hampshire so I could see the projects we were working on first-hand. Here we are walking on a frozen lake—something I’ve never done before!"

Slide 3: Hands-on Learning -> "This IAP experience made me realize how much I enjoy the entrepreneurial aspect of real estate development..."

Thank you to Eric Plesman, President and CEO, for presenting last week at our final Thought Leader lecture for the academic year!

He shared insights on how Oxford evaluates different commercial real estate assets across unique markets and long-term investment strategy.

Great turn out and a fantastic end to a whirlwind semester! Thank you to everyone who participated, helped out, and ate the food 🍕!