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Hopkins Real Estate Group in Newport Beach has been selected by the

International Council of Shopping Centers to organize its winter Alliance

Program in Long Beach.

The program will be held Dec. 5 at the Long Beach Airport Marriott

Hotel with the intent of introducing specifics of the shopping center

industry to community organizations and state and local governments.

Hopkins is in its fifth year of working with the group to produce the

alliance conferences in Long Beach.

Hopkins specializes in urban retail redevelopment and mixed-use

commercial projects and has developed more than 100 retail centers in the

United States.