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Booming Submarkets, The Port of Houston, Tenant Demands, & Rental Rates

Travis Land

Travis Land

Partner

NAI Partners

Shane Williams

Shane Williams

Managing Director

EY Global Trade

Edna Meyer-Nelson

Edna Meyer-Nelson

President & CEO

The Richland Companies

Jeff Stringer

Jeff Stringer

Senior Director of Development

Quannah Partners

Nazir Khalfe
Moderator

Nazir Khalfe

Principal

Powers Brown Architecture

Travis Land

Partner

NAI Partners

Travis Land specializes in the industrial sector of the Commercial Real Estate market. Travis has extensive closed deal experience associated with all types of real estate transactions including tenant and buyer representation, property dispositions, and build-to-suit/design-build representation. His market knowledge, combined with his hands on approach to the real estate industry, helps his clients evaluate their real estate options and choose a strategy that best meets their facility needs. Travis is recognized in the marketplace as a consistent top producer and adds significant value throughout the transaction process by creating substantial leverage for his clients. Once a client – always a client.

Edna Meyer-Nelson

President & CEO

The Richland Companies

As President and Chief Executive Officer of The Richland Companies, Edna Meyer-Nelson directs all business activities for

Richland’s many divisions. Since founding The Richland Companies in 1993, she has amassed a portfolio of 35 properties

in five states representing more than 2.5 million square feet of commercially owned and managed property throughout

the Southwestern United States valued in excess of $250 million. She began her career in the banking industry where she

served as Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer, and Marketing Director for several of the larger banks in Houston,

such as: Great Southern Bank, Fondren Southwest Bank, American National Bank and Charter Bank. During her tenure,

Meyer-Nelson’s duties included initiating commercial, small business and real estate loans, as well as executive lines of

credit. While managing over $50 million in assets, she also assisted in the buy-outs of several independent banks,

initiated and incorporated new, cost effective programs, and actively encouraged executive women to enter new business

ventures.

Meyer-Nelson is a graduate of Southern Methodist University with post-graduate degrees from the University of Houston

and the University of Colorado. She is an active member of the National Association of Professional Women, CREW and

the American Business Women’s Association as well as a frequent guest lecturer for a variety of graduate, undergraduate

and continuing education courses at Rice University and University of Houston, where she sits on the Executive Advisory

Board-Graduate Real Estate Program, C.T. Bauer College of Business. In 2010, she was appointed Chairman of the

Advisory Council for The Texas Heart Institute’s Center for Women’s Heart and Vascular Health. A longtime board

member of Houston Children’s Charity, in 2009 Edna earned the distinction of presiding as its first female President. She

also serves on the board of the Houston Police Foundation. She is a member of The Cooley Circle, a Charter Member of

Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists, a recipient of the CAPS Cherished Companion Award and a supporter of

Houston Crime Stoppers.

In 2017, Meyer-Nelson became the first woman to receive the Houston Business Journal’s Landmark Lifetime

Achievement Award and was honored with CREW Houston's inaugural Circle of Excellence Award. She is an inductee of

the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, has been named Houston Business Journal’s

Inaugural Best for Profit CEO and a finalist for their Women Who Mean Business Award, received CREW’s 2015

Networking Story of the Year, one of Real Estate Forum’s 2014 Women of Influence, one of CREW’s 2012 Top 15 Women

in Commercial Real Estate, one of Real Estate Forum’s 2010 Women of Influence, a top finalist for “Business Woman of

the Year” and “Entrepreneur of the Year” and continually garners top spots on The Houston Business Journal’s Top 50

Women Owned Businesses, Top 50 Fastest Growing Businesses, and Top 100 Diversified Businesses in the United States.

She currently resides in Houston, Texas.

Nazir Khalfe

Moderator

Powers Brown Architecture

Nazir Khalfe, AIA,RIBA, is a Principal for Powers Brown Architecture. Nazir spent more than 10 years of his career as a project manager in the Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Denver, and Washington, D.C. markets. Completed projects include industrial and office master plans, as well as spec office buildings, corporate office buildings, and distribution, assembly, and manufacturing facilities. Nazir has demonstrated the ability to design and document buildings that are attractive, economical and durable. Evidence of his ability to develop designs that are efficient and cost-effective can be found in the numerous projects completed for his repeat clients.

Industrial Finance, Investment & Development

Trent Agnew

Trent Agnew

Senior Managing Director

JLL

Robert Wheless

Robert Wheless

SVP - South Region

Logistics Property Co

David Hudson

David Hudson

President - Industrial

The Hanover Company

John Moody, Jr.
Moderator

John Moody, Jr.

Manager

Moody Law Group

Trent Agnew

Senior Managing Director

JLL

Trent is a senior managing director in the Houston office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joins JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and is primarily responsible for office and industrial investment advisory throughout Texas. Over the course of his career, Trent has been involved in closing more than $10.5 billion in transactions.

Prior to starting at HFF in 2007, Trent had a three-month internship with the Global Services group in Trammell Crow’s Houston office and was named Outstanding Finance Student at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business.

Robert Wheless

SVP - South Region

Logistics Property Co

Robert is based in Houston, TX as Senior Vice President – South Region, where he is responsible for site selection, including suitability for distribution warehouse development, entitlement and feasibility; masterplan and building design, marketing strategy, building and industrial park construction and development, and leasing oversight. His 30-year development career includes land entitlement, development, leasing, marketing, and/or sale of over 3 million square feet of distribution and build-to-suit industrial product, 800,000 square feet of office, 2,000 self-storage units totaling over 275,000 square feet, and various retail and multi-family properties for Gerald Hines, Opus Corporation, and Panattoni Development.

David Hudson

President - Industrial

The Hanover Company

As President of the Industrial Division, David Hudson is responsible for all Hanover Company’s acquisition and development activities in the industrial sector. He has over 30 years of commercial real estate and industrial development experience with a proven track record of building industrial development platforms. Previously, David was the President of Griffin Partners Development and the Houston Business Unit Head for Duke Realty, where he led the management of both firms’ industrial development practices. David holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas Tech University, is a CPA and licensed as a Texas Real Estate Broker.

John Moody, Jr.

Moderator

Moody Law Group

John S. Moody, Jr., is Board Certified in Commercial Real Estate by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has extensive experience in real estate development, leasing, acquisitions, sales and financing. He represents developers, owners, families, financial institutions, investors, retailers and private equity funds in acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, financing and construction of all types of real estate.

Summary

1. With construction costs high, labor tight, and property values up, what leasing rates are we seeing?

2. What are the hottest emerging submarkets?

3. With cap rate compressing, Houston's industrial market is becoming a target for major national players. Is Houston's industrial market is predicted to stay strong going into 2019?  What factors are spurring and inhibiting growth?

4. What is the impact of tariffs on the delivery of product?

5. Building big and spec space is up. How do we stay cautious of demand?


Continuing Education Sponsored by Commercial Gateway
Pending Texas Real Estate Commission Approval: 2hr Credit by HAR.com Provider Number 0002

Venue

The Westin Galleria Houston
5060 West Alabama
Houston, TX 77056

Ballroom: Plaza Ballroom - 3rd floor


Complimentary self parking and $24 valet parking available at hotel

Agenda

Time Activity
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
Breakfast & Networking
3:00 PM
3:45 PM
Industrial Finance & Development
3:45 PM
4:30 PM
Industrial Outlook

Booming Submarkets, Tenant Demands, Operations, Innovation, & Future of Industrial

4:30 PM
5:30 PM
More Networking!

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