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The Resident Experience: Operations, Design & Amenities

Innovative design concepts, desired amenities, leasing strategies keeping pace with growth

Noah Weiss

Noah Weiss

Managing Director & COO

Atlas Real Estate Partners

Leslie Mathis

Leslie Mathis

Owner and Founder

Streamline Multifamily

David Swift

David Swift

President

Swift Lawn & Land

Sandya Dandamudi

Sandya Dandamudi

President

GI Stone

Elizabeth Herzberg

Elizabeth Herzberg

SVP, Development

Mint House

Emily Trapani
Moderator

Emily Trapani

Head of Sales

GFiber

Noah Weiss

Managing Director & COO

Atlas Real Estate Partners

Noah is responsible for sourcing, structuring, and executing investments and new developments on behalf of the company. Noah also oversees company operations and the growth of new platforms. Prior to joining the firm, Noah founded Alt+H Capital, focusing on hotel bridge liquidity and apartment hotel investments and advisory. Noah was previously Managing Director | VP of Real Estate Investments at Domio, an apartment hotel operator where he built and led the Real Estate Investments team and oversaw the company’s expansion strategy.

Prior to Domio, Noah was a director of acquisitions at Angelo Gordon, a $32 billion AUM alternative investment manager in New York. At Angelo Gordon, he was responsible for sourcing and closing real estate transactions in North America and Western Europe as part of the firm’s $1 billion net lease real estate fund.

Before joining Angelo Gordon, Noah worked for Bank of Texas, where he originated, underwrote, and closed commercial real estate loans as well as co-launched the bank’s national seniors housing lending business. Noah started his career at MMA Realty Capital, where he was a senior analyst in the proprietary capital group. Noah received a B.B.A. degree from Emory University Goizueta Business School and an M.B.A., with honors, from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Noah is a CFA Charterholder.

Noah loves travel, anything ocean-related, adding to his Scotch collection, and spending time with his wife, Casey, and sons Nash and Bowie. Noah serves as an Advisor to Rockval, Inc., and is an active member of the Weill Cornell Children’s Health Council.

Leslie Mathis

Owner and Founder

Streamline Multifamily

Leslie Mathis is the owner of Streamline Multifamily Group, a consulting firm that specializes in providing the clients with strategic business practices with regard to new construction management, renovation, and operational needs within the apartment industry.

Leslie is also the Asset Manager for Woodfield Investments, overseeing a portfolio of 5000 units throughout the southeast and mid-Atlantic. She has over 21 years of multifamily experience and served in a multi-site role for more than 18 years. Prior to launching Streamline

Multifamily Group, Leslie was a Regional Property Manager with Greystar, overseeing a portfolio from Wilmington, NC to the Triad. Leslie joined Greystar after 5 years with Mid-America Apartments (MAA), where she was responsible for the daily operations of a portfolio, often times exceeding 2300 units, within both the North Carolina and South Carolina markets. Her experience includes lease-ups, acquisitions, dispositions, re-development, large capital improvement projects, and distressed properties. Leslie has served on the Board of Directors along with several committees within the Triangle Apartment Association. Leslie is a past member of the New Lease on Life Board of Directors.

David Swift

President

Swift Lawn & Land

A unicorn these days, David was born and raised in Nashville. He’s seen incredible growth in Nashville as a whole, and especially the multifamily market.

As president of Swift Lawn & Land, David has positioned SL&L as the premiere Class A & B multifamily landscape provider in the greater Nashville market. A company run by young, sharp individuals with a tech culture feel with a blue collar mentality has allowed SL&L to attract top talent from around the US and consistently service clients at a high level. SL&L works hand-in-hand with the largest management companies in the region. When investment groups acquire their first portfolio in the market, David often consults on the portfolio’s outdoor efficiencies, pitfalls, and strengths for initial cap ex and lifetime maintenance.

In addition to servicing 100+ multifamily assets in Greater Nashville, David actively invests in multifamily real estate. These investments further develop SL&L’s ability to come up with creative, sustainable outdoor solutions for multifamily assets.

An entrepreneur at heart, David has created app’s that have been featured in the Apple App Store and have been acquired. He also consults for other companies within the commercial landscape space.

David lives in downtown Franklin, TN, with his wife, Chelsea, and daughter, Shiloh.

Sandya Dandamudi

President

GI Stone

Sandya Dandamudi is President of GI Stone, located in Chicago. Founded 28 years ago by her mother Rani Dandamudi, GI Stone is WBE/MBE certified, a signatory to Union Local 21, and a vital employer.

Sandya’s deep knowledge of stone and her “get it done” attitude has propelled GI Stone as the leading stone company in Chicago. GI Stone is unique in its versatility by executing both Exterior and Interior work – With an impressive resume that includes buildings such as 9 Walton, One Bennet Place, The Ritz Carlton, The Four Seasons Hotel, Wolf Pointe, The Tribune Tower,

Northwestern Outpatient hospital, The Northwestern Kellogg’s School of Business parking garage, One Chicago Square etc. – there is not a project that GI Stone cannot do.

Sandya is also on the Board of the Chicago Marble Contractor’s Association and is an active participant in contract negotiations. She is actively engaged in mentoring, sponsoring, and training apprentices for The Marble Setters Union-Local 21. She has a personal commitment to encouraging individuals who do not have a traditional background in the construction industry.

As a child of immigrants, Sandya understands what the American Dream is about – her parents realized it and she and her two siblings have greatly benefited from their years of hard work. This family drive has led to her conviction that everyone deserves to participate in that dream.

Sandya has an unwavering interest in assuring the existence of services that support emotional health, access to nutritional food and promoting self-expression and identity.

She also believes that through the medium of the Arts, lies a powerful medium that needs to be valued and is active in promoting artistic expression in disenfranchised youth.

Elizabeth Herzberg

SVP, Development

Mint House

As Senior Vice President of Development and Strategic Partnerships for Mint House, the leading

tech-enabled residential hospitality operator, Elizabeth oversees strategic expansion of the

company’s portfolio across the U.S. through management partnerships with real estate owners and

developers. Founded in 2017, Mint House is transforming the way we live, work and play away from

home – delivering apartment-style, design-forward spaces that offer the conveniences of home,

reliability of high-end hospitality, and tech-enabled amenities that travelers have come to expect.

Elizabeth has been a key leader in the company’s growth to 25+ properties in 16 markets. She

currently manages a team of development executives and serves as the Chair of the Mint House

Development Board of Advisors. Prior to Mint House, Elizabeth was a commercial real estate broker

with CBRE in New York, and before that, held positions in business development and marketing with

CBRE and Transwestern.

Emily Trapani

Moderator

GFiber

Emily Trapani is a tech business leader with over 15 years of experience, including more than 8 years in leadership at Google, creating and executing sales strategies and innovation for technology products and services. As the Head of Retail at Google Fiber, she oversees strategy, innovation and operations in retail and other non-traditional sales and service experiences for the company's high-speed internet offerings.

She has an invariable track record of delivering results and growth for Google Fiber and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., by developing and managing various sales channels and partnerships, including B2B, B2B2C, multifamily, direct, indirect and nontraditional. She is also an author and a futurist, who has published two books and a podcast on technologies and industry trends. She is passionate about empowering women and underrepresented groups in technology and STEM, and volunteers as an instructor and facilitator for several Google programs and initiatives.

Investing, Building & Developing to Maximize Returns

Handling insurance costs, cost of capital, flattening rental rates, construction costs and more in new developments

Nelson Crowe

Nelson Crowe

Principal

Endeavor Real Estate Group

Jeff Weller

Jeff Weller

Co-CEO & Founding Partner

Lion Real Estate Group

Kyle Verhasselt

Kyle Verhasselt

SVP, Acquisitions

Origin Investments

Desmond Ellis

Desmond Ellis

Director, Real Estate

Sentral

Dan Tansey

Dan Tansey

Principal

STG Design

Jordan Calaguire

Jordan Calaguire

Vice President, Head of Real Estate and Growth

KASA

Ralph Sampson
Moderator

Ralph Sampson

SVP

Goodman Gable Gould

Nelson Crowe

Principal

Endeavor Real Estate Group

Endeavor Principal Nelson Crowe is responsible for leading the

company’s multifamily acquisition and development team, overseeing

site selection, entitlements, design, consultant coordination, construction,

project capitalization and asset management.

Currently, Nelson is working on the development of multifamily and mixed-use projects in Austin,

Nashville, Dallas Fort Worth, Salt Lake City and Denver totaling 13,000 units and nearly $3 billion in total

capitalization.

Prior to joining Endeavor in 2016, Nelson spent eight years at Forestar Group, where he served as Vice

President of Multifamily. In 2010, he was a founding member of the organization’s multifamily group,

which developed and/or managed more than 4,000 units in Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte

and Houston, with a total capitalization of $600 million.

Nelson previously worked for Crow Holdings, a private equity firm that focuses on direct real estate

investment through equity funds for the Trammell Crow family and its capital partners. While there, he

worked on the capital placement of an $850 million equity fund.

Education and Credentials

Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business, Dallas, Bachelor of Business Administration, Real

Estate Finance, 2006

Southern Methodist University, Dedman College, Dallas, Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, 2006

Professional and Community Involvement

Real Estate Council of Austin – Member of Executive Committee and Board of Directors; Finance Chair

Apartment Life - Advisory Council Board Member

Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at McCombs School of Business – Associate Council

Austin Achieve Public Schools – Vice Chairman of Board of Directors; Facilities Chair

Urban Land Institute – Multifamily Silver Product Council

National Multi Housing Council – Member

Austin Ridge Bible Church – Member

Jeff Weller

Co-CEO & Founding Partner

Lion Real Estate Group

In his role at Lion Real Estate Group, Jeff sources transactions and manages the firm’s investment portfolio alongside co-founder and partner Mory Barak. Jeff plays a significant role in raising investment capital with high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors. Lion has over 450 investment partners that encompass over $705 million of equity investments and commitments since inception. Jeff brings 25 years of real estate experience to Lion having previously worked at top brokerage firms CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield representing tenants, investors, and landlords in commercial real estate transactions. Most recently Jeff served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of EPMI and Bayside Communities, which owns 3,097 units and manages an additional 3,500 units on the West Coast. Jeff is a board member of the Folsom Institute and a graduate of Southern Methodist University.

Dan Tansey

Principal

STG Design

Dan is a Principal at STG Design and a licensed architect who brings over 18 years of experience in all

aspects of architectural design to our Nashville office. As a Principal and Architect in the Nashville office,

his focus is on the successful development planning, design execution, and management of each project.

Dan excels at prioritizing Owner goals in design, schedule, and budget while leading a team of talented

staff, consultants, and general contractors to achieve those goals. He is also involved with the local

chapters of several professional organizations including ULI and NAIOP; as well as the President Elect of

Sports 4 All Foundation, a local non-profit agency.

Jordan Calaguire

Vice President, Head of Real Estate and Growth

KASA

Jordan joined Kasa in 2021 as Vice President, Head of Real Estate and Growth. Jordan

has significant real estate investment experience in both the hospitality and apartment

sectors, uniquely positioning him to drive the overall growth strategy of the organization.

Prior to joining Kasa, Jordan spent 15 years at private equity real estate investment

manager Walton Street Capital LLC. Most recently, Jordan was responsible for all of

firms investment activities in the Southeast US and New England across its investment

vehicles. Jordan closed over $5B of real estate transactions and was personally

responsible for over $2.5B of real estate acquisitions and development in the hotel,

apartment, office, single family rental, and industrial sectors.

Jordan graduated with a BS from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell

University with a concentration in real estate. While at Cornell, Jordan played safety for

the varsity football team. He earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management

at Northwestern University with a concentration in finance. Jordan is a national product

council member of the Urban Land Institute.

Outside of work, Jordan lives in Chicago with his wife, two children, and beloved lab

Charlie. He loves spending time with his family, enjoys home cooking, and is an avid,

yet mediocre, golfer.

Ralph Sampson

Moderator

Goodman Gable Gould

Ralph Sampson, Senior Vice President/Principal, has been adjusting insurance claims since 1991 and joined GGG/AI in 2011. He started his career in South Africa working for Aegis Insurance Company as a commercial underwriting inspector and also represented Thomas Howell Group (Crawford USA) as an independent adjuster for the insurance

companies on their international catastrophe team for several years before changing his career path to solely represent the policyholder. This career path provides Ralph with an advantage of experience, perspective, and insight into the claims handling process. The ability to understand and predict the claims process as seen from the insurance company’s vantage point is a tremendous asset to the policyholder. Ralph has negotiated claims in South Africa, United Kingdom, Mozambique, American Samoa, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Thailand, and throughout the United States and the Caribbean. As an Executive General Adjuster Ralph has extensive experience assisting policyholders with complex building, property and business interruption claims in both the day-to-day and catastrophe environments. Ralph has managed catastrophe teams and adjusted losses in major catastrophic events around the world.

Permitting, Zoning & Site Selection Analysis

Navigating zoning discussions amid a rush of deliveries & targeting investments in the market

David Hanchrow

David Hanchrow

CIO

Bristol Development

Ken Erickson

Ken Erickson

CDO

CA South

Caroleen Wilkes

Caroleen Wilkes

VP, Development

Wood Partners

Mark Valliere

Mark Valliere

Principal

Smallwood

Michael Kupin
Moderator

Michael Kupin

Partner

Adler & Stachenfeld

David Hanchrow

CIO

Bristol Development

David Hanchrow is Chief Investment Officer for Bristol. An 22-year veteran of the multi-family industry, Mr. Hanchrow oversees site selection and acquisition, as well as market and financial feasibility analysis.

He is also responsible for all asset dispositions and plays a key role in sourcing and structuring financing for new development projects. Previously, Mr. Hanchrow served as real estate development manager for Polar-BEK, a Birmingham, Alabama based development firm.

Mr Hanchrow held several positions at Polar-BEK over a period of nearly10 years and was involved in the development of more than 2,000 multi-family units.

He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ken Erickson

CDO

CA South

With more than 20 years of diverse, national experience in real estate acquisition and development, Ken Erickson serves as Chief Development Officer for CA South. With the ability to construct and facilitate cohesive teams, evaluate, and provide sound real estate development judgement, interface with public agencies, and liaise with key stakeholders, Ken is responsible for all things development related.

Ken has had a distinguished career in both the private and public sectors, most recently as Vice President at the publicly traded REIT Brixmor Property Group. Ken attained the office of Managing Director of a national real estate development platform with InSite Real Estate; and has served as Senior Director of Development with the national hotel and water park entity Great Wolf Resorts.

Ken holds several certifications and licenses including Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Geologist (PG), a licensed real estate agent, and acted as Keynote Speaker for an international audience on the future of sustainable tourism.

Caroleen Wilkes

VP, Development

Wood Partners

Caroleen Wilkes is Vice President of Development at Wood Partners. Wood

Partners is a vertically integrated real estate company known for developing

high performing multi-family assets and is currently delivering ~ 3,000 units to

the Nashville market.

Caroleen has 12 years of experience in real estate and construction across

multi-family, office and hospitality asset classes in the Southeast and Midwest

regions. With a personal commit to use development as a responsible tool to

enhance communities in the sustainability, technology, and wellness realms.

She earned her Bachelors in Real Estate Development from the Ohio State

University and a Masters of Engineering in Construction Management from

Vanderbilt University.

Caroleen currently serves on the Board for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee,

as Treasurer for the neighborhood association of Wedgewood-Houston

(SNAP Inc.) and the Southeast Americas Advisory Group for the Royal

Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Mark Valliere

Principal

Smallwood

Mark is a Principal at Smallwood, an international design firm that provides architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and experiential graphic design services. For over 35 years,

Mark has successfully designed and managed projects in the Multifamily, Hospitality, Mixed-use, Office, Retail and Institutional sectors.

He has a strong focus on Multifamily and Hospitality projects and through design creates memorable experiences for residents and guests. In Nashville, Mark was involved in the design of the SkyHouse, Viridian and Encore residential projects, as well as the JW Marriott hotel.

Recent Multifamily projects of his include Vireo in Atlanta, and Icon Harbour Island in Tampa Bay. Mark also designed the Thompson Savannah and The Cherokee, Harrah’s Cherokee Hotel.

Mark holds an Undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and a Graduate degree from Rice University.

Michael Kupin

Moderator

Adler & Stachenfeld

Michael Kupin is a member of the Adler & Stachenfeld’s Real Estate Group and co-chairs the Construction Practice Group. Mr. Kupin has earned a reputation as an attorney to whom clients turn to for their critical transactions that do not fit neatly within a single practice area; that have an uncommon structure; or that have difficult relationships or stakeholders to manage - their so-called “out-of-the-box” transactions. That experience spans an uncommonly wide range of practice areas, including commercial leasing with a focus on large-block office leases and high-end retail leases; construction, architect, and consulting agreements (owner side); capital markets lending (both lender and borrower side), private equity fund formation, and hotel/resort franchising from an institutional investor perspective.

In recent years, Mr. Kupin has developed two specialized practice niches, one of which is representing building owners leasing large blocks of office space to agencies of New York City. He has an expert’s knowledge of the special forms, provisions, hot buttons, and other transactional anomalies that are unique to New York City. The other niche is expertise in construction, architecture, engineering, design, and related consulting agreements. He has a deep understanding of the issues impacting property owners hidden in the regularly used AIA forms. Mr. Kupin has spearheaded engagements where counterparties included some of the larger construction contractors and managers in the country such as Structure-Tone and Turner Construction; major construction consultants such as Zubatkin and Gardiner & Theobold; and world-renown architects such as Robert A.M. Stern.

Why You Should Attend This Event

Why This Matters:

Nashville's multifamily market is seeing headwinds for the first time in the last few years: a flood of primarily luxury deliveries has inflated vacancy rates. Financing challenges and a slowing stream of approved building permits has made developing for real returns a much greater challenge. However, a recent PwC report has labeled Nashville as the #1 market investors are watching as we enter 2024. We will cover a host of topics for those pressing forward and continuing to do business in the area. We will discuss designing and amenitizing units that are most likely to resonate with the residents of today, funding and building properties at streamlined and minimized cost, and where investors are targeting and seeing wins in the permit approval process. 

Join us as we cover the most pressing issues in the local multifamily development and financing landscape to better equip you in your search for your next deals. 

What You'll Learn:

  • What design elements and amenities do residents truly care about today to maximize return on investments?

  • What strategies or tactics can property owners and managers utilize to accelerate leasing velocity?

  • What levers can investors and developers pull to mitigate insurance, construction & capital costs with flattened rental rate growth?

  • What can contractors do to ensure timely deliveries at cost?

  • What areas are savviest investors targeting to maximize returns?

  • What approaches can developers utilize to expedite and successfully ensure building permit approval?

For questions, recommendations, comments, press inquiries, or interest in sponsoring, please email our Mid-Atlantic Event Producer, Brandon Elsasser, at brandon.elsasser@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact brittney.bacon@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

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Venue

Omni Nashville
250 Rep. John Lewis Way S
Nashville, TN 37203

Ballroom: Broadway Ballroom A-D 


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Agenda

Time Activity
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
Pre-Event Networking, Registration & Breakfast
3:00 PM
3:45 PM
The Resident Experience: Operations, Design & Amenities

-Innovative design concepts, desired amenities, leasing strategies keeping pace with growth

3:45 PM
4:00 PM
Networking Break
4:00 PM
4:45 PM
Investing, Building & Developing to Maximize Returns

-Handling insurance costs, cost of capital, flattening rental rates, construction costs and more in new developments

4:45 PM
5:30 PM
Permitting, Zoning & Site Selection Analysis

-Navigating zoning discussions amid a rush of deliveries & targeting investments in the market

5:30 PM
6:00 PM
Closing Networking

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