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Clay Curtis
Moderator

Clay Curtis

SVP

McRight Smith

Bill Cawley

Bill Cawley

Chairman & CEO

Cawley Partners

Bill Brokaw

Bill Brokaw

Senior VP

Hillwood Urban

Adam Keith
EMCEE

Adam Keith

Dallas Market Manager

Bisnow

Clay Curtis

Moderator

McRight Smith

Clay has over 30 years’ experience as a business development/operations management

professional. His career is one marked by ever greater responsibilities and noteworthy

accomplishment. His strong foundation in project management, combined with a unique ability to

understand and communicate with people at all levels, creates an environment leading to

exceptional service and quality results for our clients.

As Vice President, Clay provides leadership in the development of client relationships and the

pursuit of new business across all of our commercial construction service areas including office,

retail, warehouse and medical offices. He is focused on delivering superior service by understanding

our existing and potential client’s needs and connecting the precise resources necessary to deliver

the greatest value to each project. He works closely with our clients to define high quality, cost

effective solutions through intelligent preconstruction preparation and focused project

management.

Bill Cawley

Chairman & CEO

Cawley Partners

Bill Cawley is the brand and vision behind Cawley Partners, a

full-service, Dallas-based real estate company historically focused

on commercial office product. Over the course of his career, Bill has

owned all classes of commercial real estate in multiple markets

across the country. He is continually recognized as one of the most

influential business leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth. In 2020, Bill was

named Developer of the Year by D CEO Magazine, and most recently,

he was the 2022 inductee to the NTCAR (The North Texas Commer-

cial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals) Hall of

Fame. Bill has acquired and developed more than 15 million square

feet of commercial office product. His company, Cawley Partners,

has been the premier office developer along the Dallas North Toll-

way, developing more than $500 million of Class A office space and

totaling more than 1.5 million square feet within the last 5 years.

Bill Cawley served as the 2020 Chairman of TREC (The Real Es-

tate Council) and is a past board member of NTCAR. Bill is an ac-

tive member of ULI (Urban Land Institute) and serves on the SMU

COX Folsom Institute for Real Estate Advisory Board. In addition to

his industry related committee positions, Bill supports numerous

charitable organizations.

Bill Brokaw

Senior VP

Hillwood Urban

Bill Brokaw is senior vice president of Hillwood Urban, where he leads the

division’s business development and leasing efforts. During a career that

spans more than two decades, Brokaw has managed leasing transactions

totaling more than 7 million square feet of landmark, Class A office space

throughout the North Texas region.

Properties and projects that Brokaw has represented include Victory Park,

The Towers at Williams Square, and numerous CBD high-rise buildings, in

addition to other significant assets in Downtown Dallas, Las Colinas, and North Dallas. In 2013 and 2014, he received the Top National Broker – Agency Leasing Award from Cushman & Wakefield and has also received “Best Real Estate Deal” awards three times from the Dallas Business Journal. In 2011, he was featured as a Top DFW office leasing broker in the Dallas Business Journal’s Commercial Real Estate “Heavy Hitters” list. He has also been designated as a “D CEO Power Broker” based on his outstanding revenue production from 2010 thru 2020.

Brokaw began his commercial real estate career in 1995 at Lincoln Property Company. Brokaw has also held positions at Trizec Office Properties and originally joined Hillwood Development as vice president of leasing for Victory Park’s initial Class A office offerings. Following a move to Cousins Properties and Cushman & Wakefield, serving as executive director of their Dallas office, Brokaw returned to Hillwood to partner in the formation of the Hillwood Urban division.

Adam Keith

EMCEE

Bisnow

Born and raised in South East London, Adam has always been a ken sportsman; representing his high school in Soccer, Rugby and Cricket. He started his working life as a Police Constable in Central London and then moved on to becoming a “Mens Grooming Expert” (which led to him appearing on The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent & GQ). This career path bought Adam to Dallas, Texas where he met his wife and decided to settle down. In Texas, Adam chose to start over or “re-tool”, and pursued a Management Degree at SMU. Once his studies were complete, Adam moved into sales of HVAC where he touched many commercial construction projects. Adam loves the thrill of new challenges, and meeting new people and can't wait to start his career with Bisnow in Dallas.

Summary

  1. What are office owners doing to help tenants during this crisis?

  2. What actionable steps are being taken to plan ahead for the long term?

  3. How will this change the playing field down the line when it comes to getting deals done?

  4. How are you weighing risk as a business leader? What is your decision-making strategy right now in terms of risk vs reward when the playbook has completely changed?

  5. What is current the outlook for office trends like coworking?

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