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One Independence Center

One Independence Center

One Independence Center is a 20-story Class A office tower bringing modern design to Trade and Tryon. The tower is complemented by a third-space tenant lounge, three-story atrium and home to culinary destination Monarch Market, Aster Cocktail Room and Lanai Terrace Bar. Twenty-three thousand square feet of trend-forward retail including Sweetgreen, Portofino’s, MD Boutique, and Starbucks invite employees, residents, and weekend explorers to One Independence Center’s city block. The building is Wired Certified Gold, conveniently located near interstates I-277, I-77 and I-85, adjacent to the Charlotte Marriott City Center Hotel, and has a CityLYNX Gold Line stop directly outside.

 

Speakers and Panels

Asset Management to Drive Leasing Activity

Leasing and renovation strategies to appeal to tenants today efficiently

Karah Tanneberger

Karah Tanneberger

SVP, Office Agency Leasing

Foundry Commercial

Skylar Huth

Skylar Huth

Director Workplace, Retail & Mixed-Use

Nuveen Real Estate

Bobby Speir

Bobby Speir

SVP

Crosland Southeast

Scott MacMeekin

Scott MacMeekin

Project Executive

Gresham Smith

Wendi Thom
Moderator

Wendi Thom

VP

Stewart Title

Karah Tanneberger

SVP, Office Agency Leasing

Foundry Commercial

Experience

Karah specializes in Office Agency Leasing at Foundry Commercial. Karah handles a portfolio of over 2.6 million SF for clients including New York Life, Cousins Properties, Third & Urban, Prudential, Dominion Realty Partners, Redline Property Partners, Long Warf, and BentallGreenOak. Her responsibilities and experience in the Agency Leasing field allow her to assist clients with complex projects, integral research, marketing efforts and sophisticated market analysis to deliver best-in-class solutions.

Prior to joining Foundry Commercial, Karah spent two years working for Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Agency Services team. Before Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, Karah was an Account Manager for a technology staffing firm. She delivered technical staff augmentation and technical project management solutions for her clients.

Karah is a native North Carolinian and a graduate of East Carolina University. Karah was honored as a rising leader in the CRCBR Leadership Class in 2018, and has been recognized as a CRCBR Deal Makers Award recipient for the last five years. She is a top performer at Foundry Commercial, and was a Top 5 Producer within the platform in 2019.

Notable Transactions

Truist – 560,000 RSF

Bank of America – 294,000 RSF

Vanguard – 265,000 RSF

Fifth Third Bank – 96,000 RSF

Dentsply Sirona – 60,000 RSF

Atrium Health – 56,000 RSF

Education, Memberships and Awards

Licensed Real Estate Broker – North Carolina

Member, Charlotte Regional Commercial Board of Realtors (CRCBR)

East Carolina University, Bachelors of Science

2019 Top 5 Producer, Foundry Commercial

2018 CRCBR Leadership Class

Bobby Speir

SVP

Crosland Southeast

As Senior Vice President of Mixed-Use Investment, Bobby is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and managing acquisition opportunities for Crosland Southeast. He has spent his career focused on real estate development and acquisitions, most recently serving as Lead Fund Manager of UNC Kenan-Flagler’s real estate private equity fund. Prior to business school, Bobby served as Director of US Real Estate for Krispy Kreme, where he managed new store development and asset management for Krispy Kreme’s domestic real estate portfolio. He began his career as a financial analyst and investment associate for Burroughs & Chapin, Inc., a real estate development and investment firm headquartered in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Wendi Thom

Moderator

Stewart Title

Wendi is Vice President for Stewart Title Guaranty Company’s National Commercial Services. With almost three decades of title, escrow, and account management experience, she oversees the business development and transactional process for her Charlottle operation. Wendi and her team specialize in handling acquisition, disposition, and all types of financing transactions in all the asset classes throughout the Carolinas and Southeast. Some of her operation’s more complex projects have been the handling of a 27 unit medical office & hospital portfolio sale, a multi-site and multi state refinancing of industrial facilities, quarries and office units all together, as well as handling Fort Sumter, NASCAR Raceways and the Charlotte Federal Courthouse. Outside of her professional commitments, Wendi is on the Board and a founding member of the first YMSL (Young Mens’ Service League) Chapter in South Carolina. She also loves to spend time watching her high school son’s wrestling competitions, playing pickleball and being with her family, friends and Frenchie Bulldog, Rambo.

Catalyzing Development & Acquisition Activity

Analyzing the economic and financial factors to determine when to act on distress or develop new product

Andrew Webb

Andrew Webb

Managing Partner

Redline Property Partners

Sagar Rathie

Sagar Rathie

Managing Director, Commercial

Crescent Communities

Virginia Luther

Virginia Luther

Managing Director

Lincoln

James LaBar

James LaBar

SVP, Economic Development

Charlotte Center City Partners

Peet Poillon
Moderator

Peet Poillon

Senior Advisor

NFP

Andrew Webb

Managing Partner

Redline Property Partners

Andrew founded Redline Property Partners in 2017 after more than 20 years of

diverse commercial real estate experience at Transwestern Commercial

Services, Hines Interests, KeyBank Real Estate Capital and ICM Asset

Management.

Redline develops, acquires and operates real estate in the Carolinas and

Minnesota, where it finds underperforming properties and executes successful

turnaround strategies focused on reimagined physical spaces, superior

operations and exceptional tenant experiences. In the Charlotte metro, Redline’s

portfolio currently includes 700 E. Morehead in Midtown, Carnegie Point in

SouthPark and the recently renovated 33-acre Birkdale Point office park in

Huntersville.

Throughout his career, Andrew has acquired, managed and leased more than 2

million square feet of office, industrial, retail and multi-family properties in more

than 20 markets, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Minneapolis, Southeast Florida,

Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.

Andrew serves on NAIOP’s national Capital Markets Forum and on the Advisory

Council of Marcus & Millichap’s Institutional Property Advisors business. He

holds bachelor degrees in both Urban Land Economics and Land Use Planning

from UNC-Charlotte and a master’s degree in Real Estate Finance from the

University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

When he’s not at work, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and three

small children and visiting relatives in London, where most of his family lives.

Sagar Rathie

Managing Director, Commercial

Crescent Communities

Sagar Rathie joined Crescent Communities in 2016 and currently serves as Managing Director for the Commercial division. He leads all aspects of the Company’s office acquisitions and developments throughout the Southeast and Southwest, with an active investment and pipeline development portfolio totaling 2.5 million SF and representing $1.3 billion in capital deployed. Sagar is responsible for sourcing, entitling, designing, financing, and executing on new and value-add office and mixed-use developments across the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Central Florida, Texas and Arizona.

Sagar has extensive capital markets experience, having collectively raised nearly $4.0 billion in third party equity and debt throughout his career. Previously, he was Crescent Communities' Director of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, where he played an integral role in the company’s financial forecasting and planning efforts, assisted with the investment committee process, and led numerous strategic initiatives for the company. Prior to Crescent Communities, Sagar was an Investment Banking Senior Associate with Piper Sandler, and a Manager at GlaxoSmithKline.

He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Discovery Place, active with ULI as a member of the Capital Markets Committee, is a Development Leaders National Forum invitee with NAIOP, a recent graduation of Leadership Charlotte, and heavily involved with the community. Sagar received his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master’s in Engineering from Duke University, and Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering also from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

James LaBar

SVP, Economic Development

Charlotte Center City Partners

James LaBar is the Senior Vice President of Economic Development for Charlotte Center City Partners. He is focused on retaining, expanding and attracting businesses, talent and investment in Uptown, South End and Midtown. James collaborates with the entire economic development ecosystem to help ensure economic development for Charlotte’s urban core is robust, shared and continuous.

Prior to joining Charlotte Center City Partners, James served as the Regional Solutions Director and Policy Advisor for Housing, Economy and Jobs for Oregon Governor Kate Brown. He also worked for the Salt River Project, an award-winning utility in Phoenix, Arizona, as the Manager of Strategic Engagement – State and Local Government Relations. James earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, a master’s degree from the University of West Florida and completed Ph.D. coursework at Arizona State University. James and his wife, Janet, live in Charlotte with their three children.

Peet Poillon

Moderator

NFP

Peet Poillon serves as Senior Advisor for NFP’s Property & Casualty group where he is responsible for managing client relationships throughout the southeast. His clients are primarily in the Commercial Real Estate, Construction, and Manufacturing industries. NFP has a large focus in the Commercial Real Estate landscape with a national practice that services owners, developers, and property management companies globally. In addition to Property and Casualty, NFP’s services include benefits, retirement, and wealth management. Prior to his career in the insurance industry, Peet coached collegiate lacrosse and played professionally. He currently volunteers with multiple lacrosse organizations in Charlotte and recently joined the board of the Greater Enrichment Program, centered around after school activities for at-risk elementary school aged kids. Peet graduated from UMBC in 2010. He resides in Huntersville, NC with his wife and two children.

Why You Should Attend This Event

The office market on a national level has struggled, that's no secret. Locally, development activity has come to almost a complete standstill. Vacancy, while high, is starting to show signs of improvement. Due to a lack of completed projects, coupled with more tenants making more confident and decisive action in the market, leasing deals are back on the rise. With those dynamics at play and with interest rates stead, but poised to be lowered in the not so distant future, there are indicators of optimism in an environment of continued uncertainty for those working in office CRE. At this event, Bisnow will aim to detail leasing strategies that are proving effective and how cost effective building upgrades can be implemented. It will outline what economic development looks like for the region to gain competitiveness, and the signals to look for when looking towards distressed opportunities or future development. Hear more from active and successful firms in the market to put you in a better position for your next deal. 

What You'll Learn: 

  • What leasing strategies, concessions or terms are being implemented successfully for tenants in today's market?

  • What approaches are proving successful from a building renovation standpoint - while managing cost effectively?

  • What types of firms are looking to the Charlotte region and have they been shifting over the past 12 months? 

  • What economic development levers can and should the region be pulling to attract potential occupiers? 

  • What does distress look like in the current ecosystem, and where do opportunities make sense?

  • What sort of financial factors will need to shift for a regalvinized new development ecosystem?

For questions, recommendations, comments, press inquiries, or interest in sponsoring, please email our Charlotte Event Producer, Brandon Elsasser, at brandon.elsasser@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact ally.araco@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

One Independence Center
101 N Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 2802


101 N Tryon Garage
120 N Church St
Charlotte, NC 28202

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Agenda

Time Activity
1:00 PM
2:15 PM
Pre-Event Networking, Registration & Breakfast
2:15 PM
3:00 PM
Asset Management to Drive Leasing Activity

-Leasing and renovation strategies to appeal to tenants today efficiently

3:00 PM
3:30 PM
Networking Break
3:30 PM
4:15 PM
Catalyzing Development & Acquisition Activity

-Analyzing the economic and financial factors to determine when to act on distress or develop new product

4:15 PM
4:30 PM
Closing Networking

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