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Riverview at Roscoe

Riverview at Roscoe

Riverview brings water, light and air together in a wellness-oriented, LEED® Platinum workplace environment. This rare ecosystem sits boldly on the Chicago River with inspirational design that provides abundant daylight and plethora of outdoor gathering spaces.

Nestled on the banks of the Chicago River, Riverview is the ideal corporate campus location and is currently home to Eden, Chamberlin University, and KidsWork, to name a few.

Riverview is ideally located adjacent to Roscoe Village and in close proximity to Logan Square on Chicago’s north side. With its campus environment and access to rich area amenities, recreational activities, public transit and the Kennedy Expressway, Riverview sets the new business standard. We’d love to partner with you!

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Chicago’s State of the Office Market

The Path Forward for the Loop and the Emergence of Alternative Office Submarkets

Tod Lickerman

Tod Lickerman

CEO

Cresa

James Fox

James Fox

Co-Founder & CEO

North Wells Capital

Jen Sweeney

Jen Sweeney

Executive Director

Millbrook Properties

Adam Mitchell

Adam Mitchell

Managing Director, Leasing

Tishman Speyer

Molly Phelan
Moderator

Molly Phelan

Partner

Siegel Jennings

Tod Lickerman

CEO

Cresa

Tod is Chief Executive Officer of Cresa, an international Occupier Representation firm focused on real

estate occupancy strategies for corporates and institutions.

He is also the Founder, Chair and Partner of The Chicago Impact Development Co. which focuses on

improving and creating successful communities and promoting resilient and successful neighborhoods

in American cities. Tod is a Board Member of FlagShip Facility Services, a leading US based Facility

services company. Tod is also an independent investor and advisor to a number of growth companies

including the nano-tech company Ultra Small Fibers and the facility tech company EquipID.

Tod has over 37 years experience in the commercial real estate field helping to create two of the top

3 global commercial real estate firms; JLL and Cushman & Wakefield. From 2013 - 2017 Tod was

instrumental in carving out the international real estate services company DTZ from their Australian

parent company and selling the company to a private equity ownership consortium. As CEO of DTZ

Tod led growth and M&A acquiring Cassidy Turley in the United States and the international real estate

services firm Cushman & Wakefield. After acquisition and integration of 20 companies deploying capital

in excess of $4.1B. C&W went public in 2018 and has an enterprise value of over $8B.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BS Architecture

Board Positions

• Board Member, Cresa

• Chair and Managing Partner, Chicago Impact Development Company

• Board Member, Ultra Small Fibers

• Board Member, Flagship Facility Services

Contact

tlickerman@cresa.com

James Fox

Co-Founder & CEO

North Wells Capital

The company’s Co-Founder and CEO is Jim Fox. In his role as CEO, Jim is responsible for the North Wells Capital investment strategy, fund-raising and financial operations. Jim has been a leader in commercial real estate for over 30 years, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Home Partners of America (2012-2015) and Chief Financial Officer of Pearlmark Real Estate Partners (1998-2012).

Jim, a Certified Public Accountant, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Wisconsin Parkside and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Since 2004, he has been an active member on the board of directors of Housing Opportunities for Women, a Chicago not-for-profit, and currently serves as the president.

Jen Sweeney

Executive Director

Millbrook Properties

Jen is Executive Director at Millbrook Properties, where she is responsible for the day-to-day operations of a private property management company that includes over 3 million square feet of office and industrial properties primarily in the Midwest. She is also responsible for hiring the outsourced brokerage teams and lease-up of the buildings. She oversees the implementation of best practices and consistent procedures across the portfolio. She previously worked for JLL, where she was General Manager, VP at multiple high profile office buildings. Jen is past President of BOMA Suburban Chicago and the current President of The Goldie Initiative. She earned a Bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and is a licensed Managing Broker.

Adam Mitchell

Managing Director, Leasing

Tishman Speyer

Adam Mitchell joined Tishman Speyer in 2021 as a Managing Director for Chicago office leasing. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Adam was a Senior Managing Director at Savills. He spent over 20 years developing relationships with corporate customers in Chicago and the Greater Midwest, acting as the Chicago Market lead for the company’s Tech Practice Group as well as a member of the Legal Practice Group. While at Savills, Adam leased over 15 million square feet of commercial space in various markets. He holds his BA in International Business and Communications from the University of Iowa.

Molly Phelan

Moderator

Siegel Jennings

Molly is a partner in the Chicago Office of Siegel Jennings, a national property tax law firm. As a litigator and trusted advisor, she collaborates with Owners, Asset Managers, Acquisition teams and Tax Departments to identify, create and execute property tax reduction strategies. She becomes a member of her clients’ management team. Her goal is to maximize and protect the full potential of real estate assets, minimize related tax liabilities, and resolve disputes with tax authorities and government entities.

Molly’s client experience ranges from family owned 1031 portfolios to national commercial investment funds, including special use properties such as hospital campuses to multi-million-dollar manufacturing facilities.

Her comprehensive understanding of the commercial real estate market was developed in part through her time as a real estate broker in the Chicago area prior to starting her legal career. Molly regularly represents clients in hearings before review boards, local assessors’ offices, the

Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, and the circuit courts.

Enhancing the Workplace Experience & Leveraging Tech

Strategies and Tools for Driving Office Tenant & Talent Retention

Scott Goldman

Scott Goldman

Managing Principal

Baum Revision

Jillian Pytel

Jillian Pytel

SVP

Newmark

Jeffrey Moerdler

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Haynes and Boone

Zach Smith
Moderator

Zach Smith

Founder

Zauben

Scott Goldman

Managing Principal

Baum Revision

Scott Goldman is Managing Principal and Co-Founder of Revision Group, LLC, a Chicago-based private investment firm specializing in the development and acquisition of infill commercial real estate. The firm was formed in 2011 and currently owns a portfolio of approximately $50MM of commercial real estate with several additional projects under development.

Prior to forming Revision, Scott spent 6+ years with Pine Tree Commercial Realty, a Northbrook-based shopping center development firm, where he headed the firm’s Acquisition platform that was responsible for the acquisition of $250MM of commercial real estate during Goldman’s tenure and had responsibilities overseeing investor relations, asset management, as well as debt and equity finance.

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Haynes and Boone

Jeff Moerdler is chair of the Haynes Boone Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Practice and a real estate partner in the New York office. He has more than 40 years’ experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. Jeff also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications, technology and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecom real estate matters, particularly in data center development, acquisitions, sales, leases, colocation agreements and service level agreements. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients, and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases; counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, joint venture, development, and renovation of property as well as sale-leaseback transactions; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans; and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. He is actively involved in settling real estate, partnership, and inter-family disputes. He also represents many not-for-profit entities and is active in health care, senior living, and educational real estate.

During the past 35 years, Jeff has developed considerable experience in the intersection of real estate with communications, technology, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, developers, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributed and in-building wireless systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of data center leases, master services agreements, colocation agreements and service level agreements, rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower leases throughout the country – covering over 500 million square feet.

He has also devoted a considerable portion of his practice to power and energy issues related to real estate and other technology matters, including large solar and wind installations, battery storage facilities, and bulk power purchases.

Jeff is a frequent speaker on real estate, data center, and telecom topics around the country. He is Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the faculty of the Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute. He regularly speaks as a panelist at data center, digital infrastructure and real estate conference around the United States. In addition, he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bisnow, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. He co-authored the first treatise chapter on telecom real law for Powell on Real Property in 1999.

Jeff has previously served in numerous governmental positions, including as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a member of the New York State Banking Board, a member of the New York State Financial Control Board, a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, and assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough of Manhattan. From 1981 to 1982, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant, US District Judge, and later Chief Judge, for the Southern District of New York.

Jeff is also an emergency medical technician on his local volunteer ambulance and President of his local chapter, as well as having served for 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the umbrella organization which is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.

Zach Smith

Moderator

Zauben

Zach is the Founder of Zauben, a green product and service company reimagining how we think and interact with nature. Zach has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, TIME 100 Best Inventions, Architizer A+ Award for best sustainable product design and actively serves as a board member to Forbes 30 Under 30.

The Future of Flex Office and Hybrid Work

Designing and Building the Workplace to Meet the Needs of A Changing Workforce

Anish Michael

Anish Michael

CEO

Firmspace

Wendy Spreenberg

Wendy Spreenberg

Founder & President

YES! Your Exceptional Space

Lauren Torres

Lauren Torres

Project Executive

Skender

David Stein
Moderator

David Stein

CEO

Steinco Corporate Real Estate Advisors

Anish Michael

CEO

Firmspace

Anish Michael is the Chief Executive Officer of Firmspace. He joined Firmspace as its CEO in August 2019 after spending the prior fifteen years as a corporate and real estate attorney to public and private companies, including serving as Firmspace’s outside legal counsel since the company’s inception. His legal and business acumen has driven Firmspace’s effort to scale up the company’s niche professional workplace model over the past three years with great success. Anish’s strategic and visionary approach has propelled Firmspace’s unique position in the flexspace environment. A native of Texas, Anish is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and also holds a law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law.

Wendy Spreenberg

Founder & President

YES! Your Exceptional Space

Wendy Spreenberg is the founder and president of YES! Your Exceptional Space®, a Strategic Partner in the development of Innovative & Flexible Workspaces. YES! is a boutique consulting firm, providing a comprehensive portfolio of services to the coworking and flexible workspace industry. Wendy and her team understand the many layers and complexities that go into creating exceptional workspace—from site selection, experience design, concierge level service, IT infrastructure, staffing, training and operations. She works with a wide array of small entrepreneurial businesses and their leadership.

Since 2001, Wendy’s experience has taken her across North America, from Vancouver to Puerto Rico, working with over 80 flexible workspace projects to start new locations, to reposition existing businesses or buildings with entrepreneurs and landlords.

Additionally, Wendy is a frequently sought out speaker and podcast guest with local media, Everything Coworking (podcast), at NeoCon Chicago, IIDA, InBIA, WANY (Workspace Assn. of New York) and the Global Workspace Association.

Lauren Torres

Project Executive

Skender

Lauren is a key leader in Skender’s award-winning Interiors group, where she directs high-performing project teams to deliver innovative workspace solutions. She has played an integral role in the successful buildouts of prominent offices for renowned organizations, including Motorola Mobility, 1871, Google, Sprout Social, LinkedIn, PepsiCo, AbelsonTaylor and Mondelez. She holds a degree in Computer Graphic Technology from Purdue University.

David Stein

Moderator

Steinco Corporate Real Estate Advisors

In 1995, David founded Steinco Corporate Real Estate Advisors with a unique vision to bring

together all resources necessary in representing office tenants under one roof. The company’s

single-minded focus is marshaling tenants through the real estate process to determine whether a

lease renewal, relocation, build to suit or purchase strategy will meet the economic and physical

goals of an organizations specific facility needs.

With the vertical integration of services that includes; brokers, architects, construction managers and

IT consultants, Steinco can offer a one stop shop approach in facilitating services for the benefit of

tenants only.

David has represented many of the largest corporations in the United States, expanding over 18M

square feet of office lease transactions. Over the past few years Steinco was nominated by NAIOP

for one of the largest office lease transactions in Downtown Chicago “The Awards of Excellence”.

David’s experience is national in scale and negotiated one of the largest lease restructure

transactions in the State of Colorado for an entity that is part of Homeland Security. Regarded as an

expert in the field, David has pioneered Steinco’s innovative negotiation methodology and corporate

services platform. During his career he has been recognized by Equity Office Properties as 1 of 50

“Top Deal Makers” in the United States and is frequently called upon by his peers to provide industry

outlook for Chicago’s real estate market.

In 2006 David Founded Deerpark Investors. Deerpark’s strategy is to use Tenants needs and desires

to acquire value add office buildings that meet the goals of both Deerpark and Tenants in the

Chicago Metropolitan area. To date, Deerpark has acquired and sold over 750,000 rsf of office

buildings.

Fireside Chat: The Repositioning of Legacy Projects

The Financial Benefits of Adapting to the Needs of Today's Tenants

Yugene Cha

Yugene Cha

Partner

Krueck Sexton Partners

Ellen May

Ellen May

Managing Director, Leasing

Tishman Speyer

WHY THIS MATTERS

What You'll Learn:

  • How does reality compare to the return to office that had been highly anticipated?

  • What does the future hold for the Loop’s vacant office properties?

  • Where are Chicago’s newest tenants looking to set up shop?

  • What impact is hybrid work having on the Chicago office market?

  • What role will flex office play in the future from a development and design perspective? 

  • What innovations in technology are being implemented in the workplace to increase employee engagement?

  • What are industry leaders incorporating into their development & design strategies today to ensure success with the tenants of tomorrow?

How You'll Do More Business: 

Join industry leaders in Chicago as they discuss how they are navigating their way back through the office market in Chicago. With a hybrid work model and changes to the workplace, find out where there is room for opportunities, and where to capitalize on these trends. Join us and the region's best as we dive deep into the Chicago market and analyze the trends impacting its growth.

Who Attends: Brokers, owners, developers, investors, construction, designers, architects, financial institutions, government officials and more!

Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us. Join Bisnow as we jump into the market in Chicago to analyze its strengths and strategize on its areas of opportunity.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our senior event producer, Elliot Dvorin at elliot.dvorin@bisnow.com.

Venue

Riverview at Roscoe

2718 W Roscoe St.

Chicago, Illinois 60618


Limited availability at parking lot across the street on W Roscoe St. and free street parking.

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Agenda

Time Activity
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Pre-Event Networking
2:00 PM
2:10 PM
Bisnow & Baum Revision Welcome
2:10 PM
2:30 PM
Fireside Chat: The Repositioning of Legacy Projects
2:30 PM
3:15 PM
Enhancing the Workplace Experience & Leveraging Tech

Strategies and Tools for Driving Office Tenant & Talent Retention

3:15 PM
4:00 PM
The Future of Flex Office and Hybrid Work

Designing and Building the Workplace to Meet the Needs of A Changing Workforce

4:00 PM
4:45 PM
Chicago’s State of the Office Market

The Path Forward for the Loop and the Emergence of Alternative Office Submarkets

4:45 PM
5:30 PM
Post-Event Networking

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