New York Conversions & Building Upgrades Conference
Wed Feb 25, 2026
New York Conversions & Building Upgrades Conference
Office to Residential, Changing Asset Use, Building Upgrades, Making Deals Pencil and Future Roadmap for Additional Conversions
$125.00
Registration Questions?
**Please note we have pricing tiers based on ticket availability. Ticket prices will increase once we sell out of the current pricing tier. We cannot redeem a lower price once the ticket prices have been raised.
**Bisnow is a cashless, checkless operation. Please only submit payment via credit card.
Speakers and Panels
The Economics of Office to Residential Conversions: Capital, Incentives & Penciling out Deals
Investment, Financing & Building on Conversion Growth
Inside the Building’s Four Walls: Designing & Delivering Next-Gen Living from Legacy Buildings
Technical Look into Renovating a Building's Infrastructure
Keys to Redevelopment: Finding Suitable Buildings, Locations & Asset Classes
Key Building Factors, Additional Asset Classes & Overall Building Upgrades
What to Know About the New York Conversions & Adaptive Reuse Event
What You'll Learn:
- The success of conversions is clear but you will hear how the industry is creatively finding new conversion opportunities in buildings that might initially seem difficult to turn into housing.
- Panelists will discuss what other asset classes like hotel, life sciences and mixed-use buildings are being used to convert to residential or other asset classes.
- Developers, owners and others weigh in on which neighborhoods are the best fit for these residential conversions and what this means for unit mix, and amenity offerings.
- Architects, engineers and contractors analyze ways to overcome building issues, including floor plates, ceiling heights, bathrooms, lighting, mechanical, etc.
- Investors will discuss the appeal of these projects and how these projects pencil for favorable long term returns.
- City officials will discuss new policies enhancing conversion activity, including The City of Yes.
How you'll do more business:
Enhance your business by understanding how conversion and adaptive reuse projects have been so successful and what the growth potential is with these types of projects. Experts will weigh in on conversion viability, acquisitions, development, construction pipelines, city policy and more.
Who attends:
Investors, owners, developers, brokers, architects, contractors, engineers, property managers, government officials, lenders, tenants, lawyers and more.
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 Director of New York Events, Chris Picher at chris.picher@bisnow.com.
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact audrey.sullivan@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
|
8:00 AM 9:00 AM |
Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
|
|
9:00 AM 9:45 AM |
The Economics of Office to Residential Conversions: Capital, Incentives & Penciling out Deals
1. Capital markets and making the financing work on these office conversion deals.
2. Leveraging the city's conversion program incentives to effectively find new opportunities that make developers and investors optimistic about deal returns. |
|
9:45 AM 10:00 AM |
Coffee & Networking
|
|
10:00 AM 10:45 AM |
Inside the Building’s Four Walls: Designing & Delivering Next-Gen Living from Legacy Buildings
1. Developers, contractors, engineers and architects will discuss keys to navigating the structural challenges of a building.
2. Deep dive discussion on building MEPs, HVAC, ceiling heights, columns, windows and more. |
|
10:45 AM 11:30 AM |
Keys to Redevelopment: Finding Suitable Buildings, Locations and Asset Classes
1. Keys to executing these development projects, including ideal locations.
2. Office to residential aren't the only types of projects that work for conversions-- hear how hotel, life sciences and other asset classes are factoring in. |
|
11:30 AM 11:45 AM |
Networking
|
Featured Conversion Projects
- New wave of apartment buildings is set to take over Midtown Manhattan
- Office-to-resi conversions aren't just for FiDi anymore
- Two Trees proposes office-to-residential conversion in the Flatiron District
- RXR, Apollo Global Management and SL Green are doing a partial conversion of 5 Time Square into 1,250 units
- Top cities for apartment conversions
- Yellowstone eyes 249 units in Watson Hotel conversion
- NYC's top 20 conversion deals
- Rudin files plans to convert 845 Third Avenue into 411 apartments
- Vanbarton Group lands $300M for Manhattan office transformation using 467-m tax program
- Status update on NYC office-to-residential conversions
- Vanbarton lands $280 million loan involving conversion of former WeWork space
- Metro Loft Management's 767 Third Avenue conversion project
- Yellowstone to execute 422-unit office-to-resi conversion at 1730 Broadway
- Metro Loft Management and David Werner Real Estate Investments receive $720M in financing at 219 E. 42nd st
Sponsors
Want the attendee list for free?
Biscred gives you access to 5.9 million commercial real estate contacts and powerful filters built for CRE: search by industry, asset class experience, property count, job seniority, metros, and more. Book a demo today and get the attendee list for free when you mention this promotion.
Want to get a recap of everything covered at the event?
Purchase the post-event summary and get the highlights sent to you in a post-event summary. Purchase here.
