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Dallas Industrial Conference

Name: Dallas Industrial Conference
Start: 2023-11-07T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2023-11-07T15:00:00-06:00
Location: Century Park

Investment Potential, Opportunities and Adaptive Strategies in Today's Economic Climate

Event Ended On: Tuesday November 7 2023

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Century Park

Century Park is the gateway to the Brookhollow industrial submarket. Featuring the ideal balance of design and function with upgraded industrial features, modern showroom-grade spaces, high-end finish out, and unparalleled accessibility, Century Park is a beacon for light industrial users looking to make an impact. This best-in-class warehouse and showroom destination offers a range of loading options, a new 4.5-acre parking lot, fresh landscaping, and efficient ingress/egress.

The Park is a CanTex Capital (CanTex) project in partnership with Nicola Wealth Real Estate (NWRE). CanTex is a Dallas-Fort Worth based commercial real estate investment firm specializing in the repositioning and redevelopment of infill industrial properties throughout Texas. CanTex’s heavy investment in the Brookhollow area is revitalizing the neighborhood, bringing enhanced design and functionality to vintage class B buildings and new commerce to the area. NWRE is the in-house real estate division of Nicola Wealth, a premier Canadian financial planning and investment firm. NWRE sources and asset manages a growing portfolio of properties in major markets across North America spanning a diversified range of asset classes. The CanTex/NWRE partnership looks forward to the impact Century Park will have on the DFW industrial market.

Speakers and Panels

Industrial Commercial Real Estate Market Outlook: Global Perspectives

Heath Johnson

SVP & Market Officer, Prologis

Charlie Meyer

President, Lovett Industrial

Jessica Miller Essl

Jessica Miller Essl is the co-president of M2G Ventures, a commercial real estate private equity and advisory development comp any based in Fort Worth, Texas. Guided by the leadership of Jessica and her partner, Susan Gruppi, the fast-growing company carefully invests in distinctive mixed-use and industrial development projects located in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and the Austin Central Texas region. Jessica is responsible for business development, strategy, marketing, leasing and overseeing the company’s landlord advisory practices at M2G. Under Jessica’s leadership, the company continues to push the envelope with innovative ways to create places users want to be. Jessica possesses a relentless drive in truly creating value-add opportunities for all of the projects the company touches. Prior to starting M2G, Jessica was with Open Realty Advisors. During her tenure there, Jessica was instrumental in the company’s landlord consulting platform. She led the strategy and execution of the real estate roll out for Tesla and Spanx across North America. Jessica also played a key role in the site selection and execution of other major brands, such as J. Crew, Apple, Restoration Hardware, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Abercrombie & Fitch, to name a few. She negotiated transactions with every major retail owner in the United States during her time there. Prior to joining Open Realty, Jessica was Senior Leasing Representative at Trademark Property Company, where she specialized in the leasing strategy, execution, and project management of super-regional malls and upscale mixed-use centers. Jessica is credited with bringing some of the nation’s most premier specialty retailers to Trademark’s projects during her four years there. Jessica serves on the Real Estate Council of Greater Fort Worth, the TCU Center for Real Estate Advisory Board, the Board for the TCU M.J. Neeley Entrepreneurial School, and the Small Development Council for Urban Land Institute. Jessica was named Top 40 under 40 in 2017 as well as received the Strong Partner Award from Girls Inc. of Tarrant County. She is a graduate of Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate with a Concentration in Leadership.

M2G Ventures

Co-President

Jessica Miller Essl

Co-President, M2G Ventures

Justin Swaim

Vice President, The Conlan Company

Hutton Lunsford

Partner, Chief Investment Officer, Holt Lunsford Commercial

Moderator

Lathram Pou

President National Title Group, Lathram Pou & Associates

Navigating the Debt Market: Strategies for Financing Industrial Real Estate Development

Jeremy Giles

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Constellation Real Estate Partners

Jeff Thornton

President, South Central Region, Ryan Companies

Chris McColpin

Senior Managing Director, Newmark

Jon Pharris

Co-Founder & President, CapRock Partners

Moderator

Jack Fraker

President, Global Head of Industrial and Logistics, Newmark

Developing and Designing for Efficiency: Optimal Layouts and Features in Industrial Commercial Real Estate

George Tanghong

Principal, Lee & Associates

Sarah Ozanne

SVP, Stream

Patrick Hazard

Patrick Hazard has over twenty years of experience in architecture and planning experience. His expertise includes multi-family of varying types (adaptive re-use, three story walk up, five and six story wrap and high-rise). Additionally, Patrick has vast experience with industrial projects, hospitality, civic, educational, historical renovation/adaptive reuse, and sports facilities throughout the United States and foreign countries. Patrick is currently engaged in project management for a hybrid five story wood frame and eight story cold form metal framed multi-family project near the Bishop Arts area of Dallas with a shared six story cast-in place parking garage with residential amenities at the top level of the garage. Concurrently, Patrick is collaborating with this same developer on an approximate 420 unit “urban” style multi-family project in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards, consisting of five, four-story residential buildings with some tuck under parking and a separate leasing/amenity building. Beyond multi-family Patrick has recently completed or nearing completion of over one and a half million square feet of combined speculative industrial buildings at sites in Roanoke, Midlothian, and Plano. Patrick led the team on the Historic Jefferson Hotel in Downtown St. Louis, originally built in 1904 and later added on to in 1928, the building will be renovated to mixed- use, with retail ground level, a 225-guestroom Marriott AC Hotel and 235-key residential. Additionally, he oversaw the team working on a 24-story high-rise multi-family tower in downtown San Jose, California, with 374 residential units. Patrick’s other projects include Cambria Hotel and 1900 Pacific Residences, an historic adaptive reuse of the 1933 Tower Petroleum and 1951 1900 Pacific buildings in downtown Dallas, Texas. It includes 150 residential units, 177 guestrooms and a rooftop pool; several Aspen Heights single family for rent style student housing projects thought out the United States; the Galleries at Park Lane residential in Dallas, Texas, and the historic Sinclair Building in Fort Worth, Texas. The Sinclair is being converted into a hotel, featuring a steak house, rooftop bar and prime location next to downtown Fort Worth’s Sundance Square. Here, he is implementing modern technologies, including power over ethernet lighting. Other experience includes management of school renovation projects for Dallas Independent School District and industrial warehouses adjacent to Andrews Air Force Base. Patrick also worked closely with Aspen Heights for their Daymark project, a 202-bed community southwest of Historic Downtown Waxahachie, for high functioning, intellectually disabled young adults. This project required careful coordination with the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (TDADS) and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR).

Merriman Anderson/Architects, Inc.

Associate Principal, Team Leader

Patrick Hazard

Associate Principal, Team Leader, Merriman Anderson/Architects, Inc.

Jake Donaldson

Managing Partner, Method Architecture

Rick Rodman

VP, Catamount Constructors

Moderator

Greg Gordon

President, Gordon Highlander

Interest Rates and Development: Mitigating Risks and Maximizing Returns

Jacob Rich

SVP and TX Market Officer, Faropoint

Romit Cheema

CEO, Principal, CanTex Capital

Kyle Russell

Managing Director of Development, Westmount Realty Capital

Tony Trahan

Director, KE Andrews

Martin Siegel

Vice President of Operations, Timber Hill

Moderator

Zach Sams

EVP, Kensington Vanguard National Title

Navigating the DFW Market: Assessing the Demand for Speculative and Build-To-Suit Industrial Commercial Real Estate

Reid Goetz

Reid Goetz serves as Senior Vice President for Hillwood—leading the industrial development platform in AllianceTexas, which encompasses over 27,000 acres and over 53 million square feet of development to-date. Reid oversees all industrial development, investments, master-planning, new business pursuits, acquisitions, portfolio leasing and all data center joint venture opportunities within AllianceTexas. 16 YEARS WITH HILLWOOD “In AllianceTexas, the sky’s the limit. There are many more ‘firsts’ for us to accomplish. Whether it’s through the development of the most advanced e-commerce/logistics facilities, data centers, or the Mobility Innovation Zone, AllianceTexas continues to elevate the region. That success trickles down and positively impacts our communities and North Texas.” Throughout his time with Hillwood, Reid has led the development and leasing of 30M+ SF of industrial and data center projects in AllianceTexas including some of the world’s leading companies like Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, Callaway Golf, Henry Schein, Cargill, Citigroup and Charles Schwab. Applying an entrepreneurial mindset along with putting the needs of customers first, Reid and the industrial team created one of the fastest speed-to-market, development-ready industrial programs serving both speculative & build-to-suit requirements. Reid has extensive prior experience in finance, capital structuring, and investment/development underwriting. Reid is actively involved in several philanthropic, educational and real estate organizations. Professional affiliations include The Real Estate Council, the University of Texas at Austin Real Estate Center, the Real Estate Council of Greater Fort Worth, North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. EDUCATION University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business – Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance Thayer Leadership Program at West Point

Hillwood Properties

SVP

Reid Goetz

SVP, Hillwood Properties

Scott Ellerman

SVP, Constellation Real Estate Partners

Stephen Holley

Development Partner, Stillwater Capital

George Billingsley

Partner, Billingsley Company

Allyson Yost

SVP, Colliers

Trevor Heaney

Director, ARCO/Murray Design Build

Moderator

Stefano Poisl

Principal/Partner, Goree

What Do End-Users Want? Analyzing and Understanding Tenant Demands

Eric Beichler

Managing Principal & Shareholder, Mohr Partner

Conrad Madsen III

Co-Founder & Partner, Paladin Partners

Marc Jennings

Vice President, HFA Architecture + Engineering

Brian Strohl

SVP - Central Region Development, Link Logistics

Brandon Perdue

Regional Vice President, FCL Builders

Moderator

Ray Dunlap

President, Terrell Economic Development Corporation

Venue

Century Park
3300 Royalty Row
Irving, Texas 75062

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Coffee, Breakfast and Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	Industrial Commercial Real Estate Market Outlook: Global Perspectives
9:45 AM 10:30 AM	Navigating the Debt Market: Strategies for Financing Industrial Real Estate Development
10:30 AM 10:45 AM	Networking and Coffee Break
10:45 AM 11:30 AM	Developing and Designing for Efficiency: Optimal Layouts and Features in Industrial Commercial Real Estate
11:30 AM 12:15 PM	Interest Rates and Market Challenges: Mitigating Risks and Maximizing Returns
12:15 PM 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM 2:30 PM	Navigating the DFW Market: Assessing the Demand for Speculative and Build-To-Suit Industrial Commercial Real Estate
2:30 PM 3:15 PM	What Do End-Users Want? Analyzing and Understanding Tenant Demands
3:15 PM 3:30 PM	Closing Networking

What You'll Learn at This Full Day DFW Industrial Commercial Real Estate Conference

How has the industrial commercial real estate market in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area evolved over the past 18 months, and what are the global, Texas, and DFW-level trends that have influenced this evolution?
Which regions or countries are currently considered hotspots for industrial commercial real estate investment opportunities, and what factors contribute to their attractiveness?
What challenges and opportunities do international investors encounter when entering the industrial commercial real estate sector, particularly in terms of cross-border investments? What factors should they consider when evaluating such investments?
Which emerging sub-sectors within industrial commercial real estate show promising potential for investors, and how do these sub-sectors differ across various regions?
What are the predictions for the future of the global industrial commercial real estate market, and are there any potential disruptors or game-changers that could significantly reshape the landscape?
How would you describe the current state of the debt market for financing industrial real estate development, and what notable trends or challenges should developers be aware of?
What factors do lenders consider when evaluating loan applications for industrial real estate projects, and what strategies can developers employ to position themselves effectively and secure favorable financing terms?
In a highly competitive market, what innovative financing strategies or structures can developers utilize to meet their capital requirements for industrial real estate development?
How do lenders assess the risk associated with financing industrial real estate projects, considering factors such as location, market demand, and tenant quality? What steps can developers take to mitigate these risks and improve their financing prospects?
How can optimal layout design contribute to operational efficiency and productivity in industrial commercial real estate, and what key considerations should developers and tenants keep in mind when designing their spaces?

How You'll Do More Business: As one of the fastest-growing industrial markets in the United States, Dallas has solidified its status as a beacon of opportunity and innovation. The strategic location, robust infrastructure and business-friendly environment have made DFW a magnet for industrial development. Diverse industries such as manufacturing, logistics, distribution and e-commerce contribute to the market's impressive performance. Notably, the region has experienced significant growth in industrial construction, attracting both local and international investors eager to seize the region's potential.

However, the Dallas industrial market has encountered its share of recent struggles, warranting keen insights from industry experts. Economic fluctuations, evolving regulations, and shifting market dynamics have presented challenges that demand a proactive and informed approach. It is paramount for professionals to navigate these obstacles with expertise and acumen. By attending this event, you will have the opportunity to absorb firsthand knowledge on how to overcome the hurdles that the Dallas industrial market has faced. Discover innovative approaches and adaptive strategies that leverage emerging technologies, industry trends and investment opportunities. Learn from industry experts, and gain the tools, insights and connections to thrive at this industrial-focused commercial real estate event.

Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, and bankers.

Why You Should Attend This Full-Day Conference: 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. For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Director of Operations Sophie McCourt at sophie.mccourt@bisnow.com.