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One Bethany West

One Bethany West

One Bethany West is the third building located within the One Bethany at Watters Creek office development in Allen, Texas. Opening this summer, One Bethany West is an 8-story, 200,000 square foot Class A multi-tenant office building served by rich tenant amenities and up to 5 per 1,000 parking. Amenities in the building include a flexible conferencing center, tenant lounge, outdoor amenity space, golf simulator, and fitness center with locker rooms and showers. The building is one of the only five buildings in North Texas to receive a Platinum Wired Certification. The building is currently pre-leased with anchor tenant Highlands Residential Mortgage occupying their new headquarters in November.

One Bethany at Watters Creek is a 1,000,000 square foot, multi-building, Class A office development in Allen, Texas. Located within walking distance of a diverse mix of shops, restaurants and high-quality apartments in the Watters Creek mixed-use development, as well as the new Delta by Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, Kaizen has already completed two buildings within One Bethany that are nearly full and totaling over 300,000 square feet. Additional office development sites are available and capable of accommodating an additional 600,000 square feet space in a mix of multi-tenant Class A office buildings and single-tenant build-to-suit Class A office buildings designed to meet the needs of larger tenants in a campus environment.

Speakers and Panels

Derrick Evers

Derrick Evers

CEO & Managing Partner

Kaizen Development Partners

Poorvesh Thakkar

Poorvesh Thakkar

CEO

Thakkar Developments

Susan Arledge

Susan Arledge

Senior Managing Director

Newmark

Clay Curtis

Clay Curtis

SVP

McRight Smith

Flip Howard

Flip Howard

President and CEO

WorkSuites

Dan Bowman

Dan Bowman

CEO & Executive Director

Allen Economic Development Corporation

Lauren Kraemer
Moderator

Lauren Kraemer

Principal & Partner

ARCO/Murray Design Build

Bruce Heller

Bruce Heller

President

JaRyCo Development

Susan Arledge

Senior Managing Director

Newmark

Susan Arledge, SIOR, currently serves as a Senior Managing Director in the company’s Dallas office. Arledge has over three decades of experience advising corporate clients on location decision-making, having worked with notable companies to identify and establish real estate locations including headquarters sites, distribution/e-commerce and manufacturing centers, customer support/shared service centers, back office and tech support operations.

Susan specializes in securing real estate locations for clients globally, focusing on a proprietary Total Cost Analysis model that identifies all labor costs, transportation costs, incentive opportunities, and real estate costs. She focuses on finding locations that reduce attrition, increase productivity and allow clients to remain competitive by finding a labor force that meets their unique needs.

Arledge has received numerous professional honors throughout her career. She was the recipient of the prestigious “Stemmons Service Award,” given annually to a Dallas commercial broker that best represents the industry’s standards for business success and community service. Arledge has served as President of the SIOR North Texas Chapter, the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association and as Chair of the Go Red for Women Luncheon in Dallas. She maintains the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) designation and has been honored as one of the Dallas Business Journal’s “Heavy Hitters.” Arledge is a frequent speaker and author whose insights are often highlighted in publications including D CEO, D Magazine and Bisnow.

Prior to joining Newmark, Arledge served as Executive Managing Director at Dallas-based commercial real estate firm ESRP. Arledge’s prior experience included being the Managing Principal for Cresa Dallas and The Staubach Company.

Clay Curtis

SVP

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.

Flip Howard

President and CEO

WorkSuites

Flip Howard, Principal and CEO of WorkSuites, is a 20-year veteran of the coworking industry and a leader in the rapidly growing market sector. Howard got into the business in 2001 when the industry was still called “executive suites” and “coworking” wasn’t even a word. He bought Meridian Business Centers in 2001 and rebranded it as WorkSuites in 2018 to reflect the direction the industry was heading and his company’s transformation from an executive suites brand to a full-service coworking operation. Under his leadership, the WorkSuites brand has grown to encompass 20 locations across Texas–16 in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro and 4 across the Houston metro–with many more to come. In 2019 alone, Howard opened five new locations with plans to add four more in DFW and to triple the WorkSuites footprint in Houston soon. “We have successfully evolved from a traditional executive suites company into a coworking company that specializes in providing a private, productive, and professional atmosphere for our community of professionals. We are locally owned and customer-focused; you will never feel like a number here.”

Dan Bowman

CEO & Executive Director

Allen Economic Development Corporation

Daniel Bowman is a native of Allen, Texas and was named Executive Director/CEO of the Allen

Economic Development Corporation in 2014 after 10 years with the organization. He was

recognized in the Top 40 under 40 by the Dallas Business Journal (2021) and the International

Economic Development Council (2013) and has been instrumental in recruiting corporate

projects including NetSCOUT Systems, Credit Union of Texas, WatchGuard Video and KONE

Elevators. Bowman was also instrumental in structuring the public-private partnership for the

Watters Creek and The Farm in Allen mixed-use developments.

His background and focus on community collaboration led him to several community

leadership roles with the Kiwanis Club, Leadership Allen and other civic organizations. He is a

graduate of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) CFL Leadership Class and recently earned his CCIM

pin. Bowman is a graduate of Trinity University and the University of Texas at Dallas, where he

earned his MBA.

Lauren Kraemer

Moderator

ARCO/Murray Design Build

Lauren leads the Tenant Solutions team in Dallas, bringing over a decade of experience at ARCO/Murray. She oversees operational consistency and drives design-build strategy across Texas and nationwide. Lauren began her career with ARCO/Murray as a Project Manager, was promoted to Director of Accounts, and now serves in her current leadership role. Her work has earned multiple recognitions, including ENR’s 2025 Top 20 Under 40, ENR Texas & Southeast Top Young Professional, Dallas Business Journal’s 2024 Women in Business honoree, and recognition as one of the Top Women in Real Estate. She is also a graduate of TREC’s Associate Leadership Council Class of 2022.

Outside of work, Lauren enjoys playing sports, traveling, and spending time at the lake with her husband and daughter.

Bruce Heller

President

JaRyCo Development

With nearly 41 years of experience in the design, construction and development of real estate, Bruce

understands the need for a good team approach. As an Architect for the first ten years of his career, he

designed a variety of projects before moving into the development business with Woodbine

Development in 1989. There he was responsible for the BNSF Railroad Corporate Headquarters in Ft.

Worth and redevelopment of the old Sanger Harris department store in downtown Dallas into DART’s

current headquarters. Mr. Heller formed Fults Project Services with Jerry Fults in 1995 and served as

Development Partner with Means Knaus before forming JaRyCo Development in 2001. Over the last 19

years, JaRyCo has successfully completed a range for projects including office buildings, medical office

and specialty hospitals, corporate headquarter facilities, office flex projects and land developments. A

hands-on developer with a reputation for quality and attention to detail, Bruce has completed over 4

million SF of developments worth over half a billion dollars. When not leading JaRyCo, Bruce volunteers

for a number of community organizations, has held several positions with the Allen Sunrise Rotary Club

and at his church and for the past 9 years has deployed to disasters around the world as a Shelterbox

Response Team Member.

Summary

  1. How developers and city planners are answering the call for more Class-A office space in and around the North Dallas suburbs?

  2. What retail, restaurant, multifamily, and office opportunities remain inside Allen's next-generation mixed-use developments?

  3. A deeper look at the suburban revival post-pandemic as office tenants and urban dwellers search for less density and health-conscious office spaces

  4. How developers are positioning new and existing assets in Allen and surrounding communities?

  5. A look at cap, occupancy, and rental rates in and around Allen in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

Venue

One Bethany West

950 West Bethany Drive

Allen, TX 75013

Courtyard & 7th floor

Our Promise To You

2020 has been a year for the books, not just for our company but for our entire industry. As cities start to reopen and life and businesses stabilize, Bisnow will be returning to live events. Live events have been the cornerstone of our business from our founding in 2005, as we’ve grown from three annual conferences to over 360 live events across 49 markets. As a welcome back to Bisnow’s live events, our first event in each market will offer a ticket price of $49, the same cost as when Bisnow began 15 years ago.

Our events are going to look different going forward. We feel it is our responsibility to go above and beyond to create a safe environment for all our attendees. Below are the steps we will be taking to keep you safe so you can focus on doing more business.

- We will adhere to all US / CDC / State Government regulations for event capacities.

- Masks will be required for the entire program and provided on-site if needed. Security guards will be on-site to enforce mask use.

- Temperatures will be taken on-site via a touchless thermometer. Attendees with temperatures above 99.9 degrees will not be admitted.

- We will cap attendance at 100 people including all staff.

- The event will be pre-register only, no walk-ins allowed or onsite ticket sales.

- We will use disposable name badge stickers.

- An abundance of hand sanitizer will be available for all attendees.

- Social distancing will be enforced during the program and networking.

- We will not serve hot breakfast, but coffee and light breakfast will be provided.

- Track and trace will be put in place for all attendees.


Agenda

Time Activity
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
In-Person Networking!
2:00 PM
2:45 PM
The Major Projects Reshaping The City of Allen
2:45 PM
3:30 PM
State of the North Dallas Burbs

Calls for an urban revival in Dallas-Fort Worth rang loudly just eight months ago. But those calls quickly quieted when the region experienced the pangs of temporary civil unrest and a global pandemic.With the flick of a switch, the pandemic put the DFW burbs back in vogue, as office tenants settled into a life of social distancing and work-from-home.

3:30 PM
4:00 PM
More In-Person Networking!

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