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Matthew Pestronk

Matthew Pestronk

Co-Founder

Post Brothers

Jose Cruz

Jose Cruz

Senior MD

JLL

Chris Bushnell
Moderator

Chris Bushnell

VP, Northeast

Bisnow

Gerard Norcia

Gerard Norcia

Executive Director

JP Morgan Asset Management

Matthew Pestronk

Co-Founder

Post Brothers

Matthew Pestronk is co-founder of Post Brothers, a real estate investment, development and management company with singular and unique expertise in urban real estate development. Matthew serves as President of the company, engaged in the sponsorship of Class-A multifamily, mixed-use and retail development projects comprised of over 7,000 units that are operating, under development or disposed plus, over 400,000 sf of commercial space, with a total capitalized cost in excess of $2.5 billion. Matthew shares strategic leadership of the company with his brother, Michael, and is engaged in asset management, financing, and project and capital formation. Matthew has worked in real estate capital transactions for his entire 20+-year career and was previously a real estate financing executive in New York City prior to forming Post Brothers. Matthew is also very active in his community and has board service experience for multiple charitable organizations including the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, Beat the Streets Philadelphia, West Nottingham Academy, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is the Immediate past Chair of Jewish Federation Real Estate.

Jose Cruz

Senior MD

JLL

Jose is a senior managing director and co-office head in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital

Markets, Americas. He joins JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and is a member of the firm’s

leadership committee. Jose specializes in investment advisory throughout New Jersey,

New York and Connecticut and also oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm’s New

Jersey office. During the course of his more than 25-year commercial real estate career,

he’s been involved in more than $62 billion of office, industrial, retail, multifamily and land

sales.

Jose started at HFF in March 2010. Before that, he was the executive director of Cushman &

Wakefield’s New York area investment sales group where he spent more than 17 years. He

began his real estate career as a real estate analyst at PaineWebber, UBS, Inc.

Gerard Norcia

Executive Director

JP Morgan Asset Management

Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management with more than twelve years experience performing value-add commercial real estate investment management. Specialize in multi-family, office and retail asset management, acquisition/reposition analytics, joint venture and capital markets structuring.

Summary

  1. How have the financial markets reacted to the coronavirus pandemic?

  2. What challenges will the New Jersey commercial real estate market, specifically, have to overcome?

  3. What are the major trends CRE professionals should look for when the economy begins to reopen?

  4. How risky is construction financing and undertaking valuations of commercial property during this time?

  5. How will the CRE industry benefit from planned programs to combat financial challenges brought on by the pandemic?

Agenda

Time Activity
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
Webinar: Capital Markets Outlook

Town Hall with Matt Prestronk- Post Brothers and Jose Cruz- JLL

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