Downtown Los Angeles CRE Summit

Why You Won't Want To Miss This Conference:

What You'll Learn: 

• Urban Experience & Placemaking: How is Downtown becoming more livable, walkable, and enjoyable for residents, workers, and visitors—and what specific real estate projects are driving that transformation?
• Adaptive Reuse & Conversion Economics: What makes conversion projects financially viable today? How are developers evaluating Office-to-residential conversions, IIndustrial to creative office & hybrid uses, Retail to mixed-use conversions?
• Capital Strategy in Tight Markets: How are dealmakers structuring the capital stack in 2026? Explore Public financing tools, Opportunity zones, New tax abatements and city incentives, Non-traditional capital, impact funds, and credit solutions
• Neighborhood Dynamics & Micro-Market Growth: Which pockets of Downtown are seeing Leasing traction, Investment activity, Cap rate compression, New pipeline activity? Why? 
• Hybrid Work & The Office Reset: How are office developers repositioning space? Is it Flex configurations, Hospitality-inspired amenities, Smaller footprints, Daylighting, air quality & wellness or a shift toward collaboration-over-cubicles? 
• Retail & Entertainment Renaissance: How are food halls, nightlife, micro-entertainment, hospitality and curated retail offerings helping reactivate the ground floor and create 24/7 district energy
• Tenant Demographic Shifts: Who is moving into DTLA, and who isn’t? 
• Public Perception, Safety & Quality of Life: What are the measurable changes in safety data, street-level activation, homelessness response strategies, cleanup initiatives and community partnerships? How do investors weigh these factors when considering deals?

How You'll Do More Business From Attending This CRE Event: Join industry leaders to examine the full development landscape across the region and hear how capital providers, developers, public agencies, and brokers are working together to reposition Downtown for long-term growth. Understand the most active neighborhoods and investment corridors, how hybrid work and shifting population patterns are reshaping demand, the economics behind conversion projects and the next wave of adaptive reuse, what policy changes, tax incentives, and public infrastructure initiatives are opening new development pathways and which asset types have the most opportunity in 2026. Walk away with deal strategies, market intelligence, and actionable insights that will help you win in today’s capital-constrained environment.

Notable Projects, Assets, Deals & News:

KWP Real Estate: Clifton’s – Landmark Nightlife & Dining Destination in DTLA for Lease

AEG: THE ACADEMY AND AEG ANNOUNCE A NEW GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP L.A. LIVE WILL BE THE NEW HOME OF THE OSCARS® STARTING IN 2029 ///// Oscars Moving To Peacock Theater At L.A. Live In 2029 ///// PIZZA CITY FEST RETURNS TO L.A. LIVE WITH 40 OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S TOP PIZZERIAS, APRIL 25-26, 2026

G.H. Palmer: Ferrante Apartments 

Sentral: Figueroa Eight is a 438-unit Class A+ multifamily tower developed by Mitsui Fudosan in 2024 and managed by Sentral. We provide a hospitality-like offering complete with a membership club on the 41st floor and 30, extended-stay furnished units.

Hal Bastian: After COVID, raids and other blows, DTLA is hurting. But 'Mr. Downtown' believes it will rise again

KPC Development Offers to Buy L.A.’s Graffiti Towers for $470M (2/23) 

Why You Should Attend This Session: 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.

Who You'll Network With At This Discussion: Owners, Developers, Investors, Architects, Construction, Designers, Brokers, Lawyers, Financial Institutions & Government Officials.

For questions, recommendations, comments or press inquiries please email our event producer, Samantha D'Angelo at samantha.dangelo@bisnow.com. 

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