DFW Adaptive Reuse Summit

Why You Should Attend this DFW Adaptive Re-Use Event

What We'll Cover:

• How hospitality and boutique hotel reuse is being driven by squeezed profit margins, uneven demand, higher interest rates, and looming debt maturities, and what that means for repositioning older assets into more resilient concepts.
• Multifamily and downtown revitalizations in Dallas and Fort Worth, where office buildings are being converted to mixed-use housing that serves shifting demographics, including single-person households and aging boomers, while preserving historic character and neighborhood identity.
• Office-to-residential conversions across North Texas, including how sponsors are selecting candidates, addressing floor plates and building systems, and navigating the financing, entitlement, and municipality challenges that differ between Dallas, Frisco, and other DFW submarkets.
• Financing structures powering adaptive reuse deals, including PACE funding, TIFs, Opportunity Zones, and historic tax credits, and what it means for deal penciling now that key tax credit programs have been gutted.
• Suburban retail and mixed-use repositioning, with aging malls, shopping centers, and underutilized suburban assets being reimagined as walkable, mixed-income districts that build middle-class wealth and serve communities that are growing but no longer building new schools.
• Technology and AI tools streamlining the adaptive reuse development process, from construction communication and loan management to keeping capital flowing from concept to delivery.
• Community-centered design and the "architecture of healing," including how developers are listening to communities before converting, working with emerging and smaller architecture firms, and using recycled and recovered materials to create spaces that reflect neighborhood identity rather than erase it.
• Cost and sustainability benefits driving interest in adaptive reuse over ground-up development, including shorter timelines, lower embodied carbon, recycled materials, and the ability to preserve existing infrastructure.

How You'll Do More Business: Join Bisnow for an in-depth look at the forces reshaping adaptive reuse strategy and investment across Dallas-Fort Worth. With growing investor interest from outside Texas and a market that has shifted away from new development toward adaptive strategies, this event connects the dots between capital, policy, community, and execution. From PACE funding and Opportunity Zones to municipality-by-municipality rezoning challenges and the technology tools streamlining the loan process, Bisnow brings together the region's top owners, developers, lenders, and city leaders to uncover which DFW buildings are getting converted, how projects are being financed and entitled, and what it takes to deliver adaptive reuse that performs over the long term without leaving communities behind.

Who You'll Meet:

• Owners, developers, and investors focused on repositioning office, hotel, retail, and mixed-use assets across Dallas-Fort Worth, including capital from outside Texas bringing new perspectives to the market.
• Capital markets leaders, lenders, and finance professionals structuring adaptive reuse deals and leveraging PACE funding, TIFs, Opportunity Zones, and historic tax credits.
• City officials, housing agencies, and civic leaders involved in zoning, incentives, historic preservation, and downtown revitalization across Dallas, Fort Worth, Frisco, and surrounding municipalities.
• Architects, engineers, and design teams specializing in adaptive reuse, historic properties, and community-centered design, including firms working on Santander Tower, West End Lofts, Magnolia Hotel, and The National.
• Technology providers helping owners and developers streamline construction communication, manage the loan process, and accelerate capital access from funding approval through delivery.
• Leasing brokers and operators active in office-to-residential conversions, hospitality reuse, suburban retail and mall repositioning, and industrial backfill strategies.

Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events convene the most influential leaders in commercial real estate, public agencies, and capital to identify adaptive reuse opportunities, build meaningful connections, and drive business growth across Dallas-Fort Worth. With one of the largest CRE audiences in the world, Bisnow delivers unmatched access to the people, projects, and insights shaping which DFW buildings get converted and why. Join us for a focused look at the North Texas adaptive reuse market, from capital stacks, PACE funding, and OZ financing to the community-centered design strategies, demographic shifts, and sustainability priorities defining the next phase of growth for aging assets across the region. Whether you're repositioning a suburban mall, converting an office tower, or figuring out how to pencil deals in today's tighter financing environment, this is where you'll find the answers.

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For venue/location questions or to request disability-related accommodations, please contact claire.arhens@bisnow.com no later than 7 business days before the event.

For speaker recommendations or press inquiries please email our Texas event producer Carissa Batson at carissa.batson@bisnow.com.

DFW Adaptive Reuse News & Projects

• Inside Santander Tower, Five More Office Floors Go Residential » Dallas Innovates
• $100 million-plus West End Lofts to transform historic part of Dallas
• Developer has $200M deal to buy, renovate downtown Dallas landmark. Here are the plans
• Office-To-Resi Conversions Will Bring 430 Apartments To Downtown Fort Worth
• Office-To-Resi Conversions Will Bring 430 Apartments To Downtown Fort Worth
• Dallas firms buy Uptown office with plans for $50 million hotel
• Oil and Gas Building rennovations - Historic Fort Worth
• THE SHOPS AT WILLOW BEND ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO REDEVELOPMENT PLANS
• Industrial Conversions Becoming Popular Solution For DFW's Obsolete Office Issue
• LBJ office-to-apartment conversion project targets 2026 start date

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