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With 450 commercial real estate players having attended Bisnow’s GSA I event, we figured you wanted one more.

There’s no question the federal government dominated DC real estate in ’09 with the GSA leasing 8.4M SF. The GSA will continue to shake-up the 2010 market as 6.4M SF of GSA leases are set to expire over the next year. Our highly anticipated Working with the GSA II is a must-attend event for a behind-the-scenes look at the force that kept us afloat and to hear where the fed’s 50m SF portfolio will take us next, straight from the source—GSA’s Bart Bush.

Friday, January 29, 2010
Willard Intercontinental
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004

Agenda

 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast & Schmooze
 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Keynote: Bart Bush
 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Valerie Santos and Panel of Experts
 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM Post-game Schmooze


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Bart Bush
Regional Commissioner
Public Buildings Service
Bart oversees the largest real estate operation in the metro area, encompassing 1,400 employees and a portfolio of 96M rentable SF, 53M SF leased and 43M SF owned. Annually, the National Capital Region produces revenue in excess of $2.5 billion and has underway construction projects exceeding $4 billion. Some of the largest current projects include: a GSA record size 4.5M SF headquarters campus for the Department of Homeland Security, a headquarters campus for the FDA, and the redevelopment of the Southeast Federal Center that will house the DoT headquarters.
 
     
 
Valerie Santos Valerie Santos
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
Valerie is responsible for Mayor Fenty’s economic development vision and managing a development pipeline worth more than $13 billion comprised of public-private housing, retail, office and parks projects throughout the District. She oversees a cluster of agencies that include the Department of Small and Local Business Development, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Office of Planning, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking, and the Commission of Arts and Humanities.
 
     
 
Greg Meyer
Sr. Vice President, Washington DC Region
Brookfield Properties
Greg is responsible for setting the strategic direction and overseeing the day-to-day operations and activities of Brookfield’s Greater DC portfolio. That portfolio consists of 30 assets comprising 7.2M SF in DC, suburban MD and NoVa. Prior to joining Brookfield, Greg served as COO for Penzance Companies. He also has held several positions at Equity Office Properties, including Market Leader, responsible for its 6.6M SF Washington portfolio, and Regional VP of Leasing for DC and Philadelphia.
 
     
 
Jeffrey Kovach
Sr. Vice President
Beacon Capital Partners
Jeff provides asset management services on approximately 25 commercial office buildings totaling approximately 6M SF in the NoVa and DC markets. Portfolio assets currently include Market Square, The Army Navy Club Building, and 1350 I St. in DC, and Reston Town Center in VA. With over $8.5 billion aggregate equity capital commitments since its 1998 inception, Beacon’s most recent Fund, Beacon Capital Strategic Partners V, is the largest office-focused private equity fund in the world, with $4.0 billion of committed equity capital.
 
     
 
Tom Finan
Managing Director
Trammell Crow Company
Tom successfully manages development projects from planning to completion and guides a team of Trammell Crow/CBRE professionals in securing leases at value maximizing terms to prepare them for profitable hold or exit strategies. Since returning to Trammell Crow in 1998, he has developed 3.2M SF of office space in the DC metro area, including 1.1M SF of highly secure facilities and 1M SF of LEED designated space. With his active involvement in the procurement of Federal Government tenants and extensive relationships with GSA, Tom recently inked a 330,000 SF lease with the US Dept. of Agriculture at Patriots Plaza III.
 
     
 
Joseph B. Brennan
Managing Director, Government Investor Services (GIS)
Jones Lang LaSalle
Joe leads the GIS team strategy and transaction implementation to investors in the federal sector. The GIS practice has completed over 4,000 transactions for government agencies and private sector owners. Among his many transactions, Joe executed the 1M SF relocation of Pentagon employees immediately following the 9/11 attacks, advised the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Enhanced Use Lease program on a national basis, and developed the Peterson Companies’s effort to acquire federal leases with $600M in lease contracts closed to date.
 
     
 
Holly Briggs
Principal
Perkins+Will
Perkins+Will is a commercial architect design firm specializing in commercial building architecture, interior design, and sustainable building design with over 1,000 employees. As a Principal with over 30 years of experience, Holly has designed state-of-the-art office facilities for private sector and government agency clients. In 2007, for example, she led the interiors team in designing the 1.4M SF Department of Transportation HQ.
 
     
 
David Kessler
Office Managing Principal - Bethesda
Reznick Group
David has 24 years of experience representing developers, property managers, asset managers, and other finance companies and lenders as an audit principal. His specialties include affordable programs such as HUD finance alternatives, low income housing tax credits and conventional multifamily debt/equity programs. David teaches real estate courses at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland.