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Jack Reilly

Jack Reilly

Head of Development

Designer Brands

Ashley Mays

Ashley Mays

Chief of Place and Real Estate

Newark Alliance

Keegan Gosik

Keegan Gosik

VP, Development Services

Andrew Dansker

Andrew Dansker

CEO

Dansker Capital Group

Amrit Chase

Amrit Chase

SVP, Investments

First Washington Realty

David Wolfe

David Wolfe

Co-Managing Partner

Skoloff & Wolfe

JB Bruno

JB Bruno

Senior Director

JLL

Andrew Lofredo
Moderator

Andrew Lofredo

CEO

CRE Vertical Advisors

Andrew Dansker

CEO

Dansker Capital Group

Andrew Dansker is the CEO and founder of Dansker Capital Group, a national mortgage brokerage firm with six U.S. offices and one international office. He oversees a team of 30 professionals originating commercial mortgage debt across all major asset types, with a particular focus on retail and multifamily properties. The firm primarily arranges bank and credit union financing while also executing agency, CMBS, life company, and bridge loan transactions as appropriate. Since its establishment as an independent company in 2020, Dansker Capital Group has placed well over $3 billion in commercial real estate loans nationwide.

Andrew believes the middle-market debt marketplace is under-served by professional, high-quality national firms and sees a significant opportunity for an enterprising company to fill that gap. His leadership vision is to build an organization that delivers institutional-quality service, execution, and results to the national middle-market debt space.

Andrew is a published industry commentator whose writing on the real estate lending market has appeared in The Commercial Observer, Real Estate Weekly, and New York Real Estate Journal. He is also a frequent industry speaker and contributor at conferences and events organized by Bisnow, GlobeSt, Interface, Commercial Observer, ConnectCRE, and other leading commercial real estate platforms. He has more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.

David Wolfe

Co-Managing Partner

Skoloff & Wolfe

Mr. Wolfe is the Co-Managing Partner in the Property Tax Department at Skoloff &

Wolfe, PC, where he focuses his practice on representing taxpayers in significant real estate tax appeals and property tax related matters. He has extensive experience in all types of property tax appeals, including hotel, multi-family, retail, office, and industrial properties. Mr. Wolfe frequently counsels clients on the property tax implications of the development, acquisition, and disposition of significant assets. He also counsels clients with respect to property tax exemptions and PILOT agreements.

Mr. Wolfe serves on the Board of the National Association of Property Tax Attorneys (NAPTA) and as the Co-Chair of the Real Property Tax Practice Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Mr. Wolfe has been featured or quoted in a wide variety of local and national publications, including Forbes.com, GlobeSt.com, Marketwatch.com, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Law.com, Law360.com, The New York Law Journal, and Commerce Magazine.

Mr. Wolfe has a track record of obtaining significant assessment reductions on behalf

of his clients.

Examples of those assessment reductions include:

• Reduced hotel assessment from $188 million to $131million;

• Reduced multi-family assessment from $116 million to $67 million;

• Reduced office assessment from $115.5 million to $90million;

• Reduced supermarket anchored center from $66.9 million to $46 million;

• Reduced nursing home assessment from $36 million to $10.1million;

• Reduced big box retail assessment from $21.3 million to $13.4 million;

• Reduced office assessment from $27.8 million to $6.5million.

Mr. Wolfe began his career as an associate at the law firm of Davis Polk and

Wardwell in New York. While at Davis Polk, he focused his practice on regulatory

investigations, securities litigation and banking disputes.

Mr. Wolfe is a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates and is

the Co-Chair of the ABA’s Diversity & Inclusion 360 Presidential Commission. As a

young lawyer, Mr. Wolfe served as the Chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division, the

ABA’s largest entity with more than 130,000 members.

Mr. Wolfe received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, and graduated

from Cornell University with distinction in all subjects.

JB Bruno

Senior Director

JLL

J.B. is a senior director in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joins JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and has more than nine years of experience in commercial real estate and corporate finance. He specializes in investment advisory in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania markets. Over the course of his career, J.B. has been involved in more than $2.5 billion of office, industrial, retail and multifamily transactions.

J.B. started at HFF in June 2016. Prior to joining HFF in a full-time role, he interned at the firm while attending Emory University’s Goizueta Business School where he received his MBA with a concentration in finance and real estate. Prior to that, he was a Senior Revenue Accountant at the multinational software firm SAP.

Andrew Lofredo

Moderator

CRE Vertical Advisors

Andrew Lofredo has nearly three decades of broad commercial real estate experience, as a real

estate broker, property manager, attorney, and asset manager, along with leadership roles in both

institutional and entrepreneurial environments.

Andrew is currently CEO of CRE Vertical Advisors, which was founded to provide comprehensive

real estate asset management, property management and advisory services to direct investments

and select third parties with a concentration in retail, industrial and office properties in the New

York Tri-State and Mid-Atlantic Regions. Previously, he was CEO of MCP Real Estate &

Investment Management, a real estate family office; Head of Asset Management for Fortis

Property Group, overseeing investor/lender relations, leasing and operations of a commercial

portfolio in excess of 6 million square feet in the Northeast US and Texas; Senior Vice President

of Operations at Ashkenazy Acquisitions, responsible for running a national retail portfolio,

including all operations and construction; in-house counsel and Director of Asset Services in NYC at CBRE, with corporate

management responsibilities and oversight of over 9 million square feet of commercial assets in NYC, Westchester and

Connecticut.

He currently serves as a Co-Chair of the New York Commercial Real Estate Industry's Spirit of Hope Event to benefit St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital. Additionally, he has guest lectured on multiple occasions for The Real Estate Associates

Program and was an adjunct professor teaching real estate asset management at the Fordham Real Estate Institute’s MSRE

program and New York University (NYU).

Why You Should Attend This 2026 Retail & Mixed-Use Event

What You'll Learn:

  • What's driving a 67% jump in bids on retail properties over the past two years?

  • How are digital experiences and AR activations boosting retail foot traffic today?

  • How is placemaking turning shopping centers into community hubs rather than just points of sale?

  • How are developers designing ground floor retail to activate street level foot traffic?

  • What do tenants weigh most today when choosing a location: rent, visibility or flexibility?

  • How are architects designing retail spaces that can be reconfigured as tenant needs change?

How you'll do more business:

Enhance your business by understanding how New Jersey's top communities are creating mixed-use communities that are attracting a variety of different tenants across retail, office and residential. Experts will weigh in on development, investment, construction across the multifamily, retail and office sectors.

Who attends:

Developers, investors, office and retail owners, lenders, tenants, brokers, architects, contractors, engineers, property managers, government officials and lawyers.

Why should you attend:

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.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Senior Event Producer, Joshua Piquion at joshua.piquion@bisnow.com. 

To request disability-related accommodations, please contact mackenzie.kunkle@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Agenda

Time Activity
8:30 AM
9:30 AM
Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
9:30 AM
10:15 AM
Consumer Trends and Its Impact on Design, Placemaking & Leasing Outcomes

1.) Understand what's fueling placemaking strategies across Jersey's mixed use corridors and Main Streets.
2.) Learn how shifting shopper habits are influencing leasing decisions and tenant mix today.
3.) Hear how experiential formats and digital tools are reshaping store design and dwell time.

10:15 AM
11:00 AM
Investing & Developing Retail/Mixed‑Use Assets

1.) Hear how investors are underwriting retail and mixed use assets in today's market.
2.) Gain perspective on construction costs and timelines shaping the next wave of retail.
3.) Learn how developers are financing and delivering new mixed use projects across Jersey.

11:00 AM
11:15 AM
Post Event Networking

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