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With most projects on hold due to the economy, the state of the construction industry & future development in NYC is at a pivotal point. What does it take to survive? What are innovative methods to keep projects moving? What are some of the new financing strategies? What impact does sustainability have on the future of development? How do you go about renovating existing assets? How is the NYC market different than other business centers?
Join Bisnow and the leaders and advisors of the construction & development community on July 7th at the Lighthouse Executive Conference Center & Theater to gain invaluable information, insight, and (of course) schmooze time.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Lighthouse Executive Conference Center & Theater
111 East 59th Street
(between Lexington & Park Avenues)
New York, NY 10022
Agenda
| 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM |
Breakfast & Schmooze |
| 8:45 AM – 9:15 AM |
Legends Panel: Bruce Mosler & Charles Cohen, Moderated by Mark Bisnow |
| 9:15 AM – 10:05 AM |
All-Star Panel |
| 10:05 AM – 10:30 AM |
Post-Game Schmooze |
$59
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Bruce Mosler
Co-Chairman of the Board
Cushman & Wakefield
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| Cushman & Wakefield is the world’s largest independent real estate services firm, with $1.8 billion in revenues & 15,000 professionals in 230 offices in 58 countries. Bruce advises major occupiers & investors on strategic real estate matters while managing & developing key, global client relationships. As CEO from 2005-2010, he led the firm’s rapid growth, including the acquisition of the leading real estate services firms in Canada & Russia & the expansion of the firm’s Global Capital Markets group. He also secured IFIL Investments, S.p.A. (now EXOR) as the firm’s new majority shareholder. Bruce has won REBNY’s “Deal of the Year” award twice (’98 & ’99). |
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Charles S. Cohen
Owner, President & CEO
Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation
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| Charles has a portfolio of 12M SF in NY, TX, FL & SoCal & leads a team of 400 in all development phases--from construction to leasing, to financing, marketing & managing. With an expertise in maximizing underutilized buildings & passion for Design Centers, he revitalized NYC’s outdated Decoration & Design Building into the country’s premier luxury home furnishings center & developed W. Hollywood’s award-winning Pacific Design Center that includes a Cesar Pelli building. Some of his other transformations include NYC’s vacant 39 story, 1 MSF Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield into a fully leased Class A office tower and 623 5th Ave., formerly Swiss Bank Tower, into a multi-tenanted corporate center for elite financial firms. |
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Janno Lieber
President
World Trade Center Properties
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| Janno manages all aspects of the Silverstein organization's efforts to rebuild at the World Trade Center site including planning, design & construction issues; business, financing & legal matters; and public affairs, government & community relations. He previously served as Sr. VP of Lawrence Ruben Company and as an independent consultant specializing in public-private development issues. From 1994 to 1998, he worked at the U.S. Department of Transportation, finishing as Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy. |
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Michael Della Rocca
Group Board Director & President, N.A.
Halcrow
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| Michael leads the company’s maritime, transportation, consulting, water, power, buildings and environmental services through a network of 23 offices in North America. With over 30 years’of experience, he is a professional engineer in multiple states and has been the principal-in-charge for many major projects. He has held senior positions within the consulting engineering and construction industry, including executive management roles at STV Group, Washington Group International and Parsons Brinckerhoff. |
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Elizabeth Heider, AIA LEED AP
Senior VP
Skanska USA
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| One of The Green Economy Post’s 10 women pioneers in green building, Beth has over 31 years of professional experience in all phases of design and construction from master planning through project closeout as architect, construction manager, cost manager & VE facilitator. She has completed studies of more than 100 projects and specialty studies, such as the LEED Cost Study for GSA, which have influenced billions of dollars of federal construction programs. She has presented papers on cost, value, eco-efficient building, and program management at 70 international conferences & events. |
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Barry LePatner
Founder
LePatner & Associates
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| LePatner is the nation's foremost construction law firm and advisor. As its founder, Barry is recognized as one of the leading minds on legal matter surrounding construction and design. His latest book, Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America’s Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry, which was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, has created a national debate among owners, designers, and other key stakeholders. |
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Richard Bailes
Principal
RMJM
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| Richard focuses on the strategic & operational direction of future business, improving regional profit performance, maintaining effective financial controls & collaborating on new business strategies & decisions. Previously, at Deloitte, Accenture & Signet Group Plc, he worked on numerous audit engagements & managed high-profile Sarbanes-Oxley projects, including a global compliance project for a major public limited company with annual turnover of $8B. |
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MODERATOR |
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Joseph Castellano
Senior Managing Director
FTI Schonbraun McCann Group
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| Joseph has over 25 years of experience in the areas of construction management, project scheduling and claims analysis and has provided expert testimony in scheduling matters on complex multi-million dollar construction termination, delay, acceleration & loss of productivity claims. His services include detailed schedule analysis, disputed extra work claims, litigation support, surety evaluations, defective construction investigations, and property and casualty claims. He has provided construction consulting services to owners, contractors, sureties & insurance companies. |
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