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Today’s 2 Park combines the character and charm of the building’s original Art Deco details with all the comforts and convenience of a contemporary workplace. With a new hospitality-inspired amenity program and range of spaces for companies large and small, we’re checking all the boxes to bring you a reimagined office experience in one of the city’s best locations. 2 Park is home to a brand new collection of elegantly designed, thoughtfully executed amenities far beyond those of NYC’s leading office buildings. Engage employees and build your company culture with additive third spaces for connection and growth right outside your office door. 2 Park’s centralized location between Grand Central and Penn Station offers a nonstop commute across 11 subway lines. You’ll be at the epicenter of New York’s top transit hubs, with a variety of other transportation options easily accessible.

        

Speakers and Panels

Office Leasing Outlook

Lease Terms, Vacancy & Tenant Control

Thomas Durels

Thomas Durels

Executive Vice President, Real Estate

Empire State Realty Trust

Trupti Patel

Trupti Patel

Head of Global Real Estate

Paramount Global

Thomas Bow

Thomas Bow

Executive Vice President, Commercial Leasing

The Durst Organization

Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly

Executive Managing Director

Cushman & Wakefield

Charlie Robinson

Charlie Robinson

Co-Founder, President

The Malin

Mike Mulia
Moderator

Mike Mulia

Partner

Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti LLP

Thomas Durels

Executive Vice President, Real Estate

Empire State Realty Trust

Mr. Durels is responsible for all of our real estate activities, including leasing, property redevelopment, management and construction. Mr. Durels joined our predecessor in 1990 where he served in similar capacities, also supervised property acquisitions, and was involved in acquisitions and structured equity investments of over $1.1 billion. Prior to joining our predecessor, from February 1984 to April 1990, he served as Assistant Vice President at Helmsley Spear, Inc., where Mr. Durels was responsible for construction and engineering for its portfolio of office, hotel, residential and retail properties. Mr. Durels is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, the Urban Land Institute and the Young Men’s and Women’s Real Estate Association, for which he served as Treasurer in 2003, and is a licensed real estate broker in New York and Connecticut. Mr. Durels received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Charlie Robinson

Co-Founder, President

The Malin

Charlie is the Co-Founder and President of The Malin, a work focused members club with three highly desirable New York locations in SoHo, Williamsburg and the West Village. The brand is also about to commence its national expansion before year end in the Wedgewood-Houston and Paseo South Gulch districts of Nashville, with further announcements to follow soon.

The Malin offers neighborhood workspaces that inspire you to work beautifully, where members are surrounded by thoughtful design not distraction. From our initial SoHo flagship and beyond, one promise lives at the heart of every location: The Malin offers beautiful spaces that enable your best work.

Mike Mulia

Moderator

Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti LLP

Michael A. Mulia is an associate in Ingram’s commercial real estate group, where he focuses his practice in the areas of commercial leasing, acquisitions and sales, project development, and financing.

Prior to joining Ingram Mike was an associate attorney for a small New York real estate firm, where he handled all aspects of real estate transactions, including client contact, term sheet review, contract negotiation, title and survey review, due diligence and ground-up real estate development projects. Michael also served as general counsel for a New York real estate development company where he oversaw the development and financing of charter school projects and other commercial real estate projects throughout New York City.

Distressed Office & Problem Solving Financing

Navigating Relationship with Lender & Tenant

Lisa Bevacqua

Lisa Bevacqua

Executive MD, Investor Portfolio Managment

CBRE

Elliott Ingerman

Elliott Ingerman

Principal

Tribeca Investment Group

Patrick Keeley

Patrick Keeley

Executive Director

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing

Jeremy Neuer

Jeremy Neuer

Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets

JLL

Doug Lowenstein

Doug Lowenstein

Co-Founder and Managing Director

TI Solutions, LLC

Eric Schoenfeld
Moderator

Eric Schoenfeld

Partner

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

Lisa Bevacqua

Executive MD, Investor Portfolio Managment

CBRE

Lisa Bevacqua joined CBRE in 2024 and is Executive Managing Director, Investor Portfolio Management. In her role, Lisa is responsible for the strategic partnership and account, Brookfield Properties Operated by CBRE, leading a team of over 1,100 real estate professionals across Brookfield’s 70 million square foot North America office portfolio.

Prior to joining CBRE, Lisa Bevacqua was the Executive Vice President and Head of Asset Management at Silverstein Properties (SP), where she oversaw a $10 billion portfolio of office, multifamily, and life science properties. At SP, Lisa was responsible for overseeing execution of the investment strategy for all properties in the portfolio and managing investor relationships. She served on the company’s investment committee, management team, and diversity and inclusion committee.

Prior to joining Silverstein Properties, Lisa worked in acquisitions and asset management at Citi Property Investors (CPI), a real estate opportunity fund with over $600 million of assets under management. At CPI, Lisa was responsible for underwriting and conducting due diligence on $1.8 billion of real estate transactions. In addition, Lisa oversaw a portfolio of office, condo and land assets. Prior to CPI, Lisa was a leasing broker at CB Richard Ellis/Whittier Partners, with a focus on the downtown Boston office market.

Lisa began her career as a consultant at Accenture, where she worked on assignments aimed at identifying and implementing process and operational improvements at financial services companies.

Lisa earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Boston College. Lisa, her husband, and their four children, live in Westport, CT.

Jeremy Neuer

Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets

JLL

Jeremy Neuer is a Senior Managing Director in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. Jeremy specializes in office investment advisory throughout New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. Since 2017, he’s been involved in more than $2 billion of office sales.

Prior to JLL, Jeremy was co-lead of Capital Markets for CBRE NJ, focusing on office transactions. After an 18-year leasing career, he transitioned to Capital Markets in 2016 to leverage his unique experience with respect to the workplace–and how buildings need to change to meet the needs of modern occupiers. His success in leasing, on both the tenant and landlord side, gives him a distinct perspective to drive asset value and provide comprehensive advisory to owners and investors.

Doug Lowenstein

Co-Founder and Managing Director

TI Solutions, LLC

Mr. Lowenstein is the author of the firm’s business concept and the principal architect of the proprietary structuring technique for tenant improvement financing. He is involved in the firm’s overall business development and leads transaction origination. Prior to founding the Company, Mr. Lowenstein worked in commercial leasing in New York City, with roles at Savills and Trammell Crow. Mr. Lowenstein has consummated structured finance, leasing and sales transactions totaling over $1.5B during his career.

Eric Schoenfeld

Moderator

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

Eric Schoenfeld is Chair of Tannenbaum Helpern's Real Estate and Construction Law practice. He has more than twenty-five years of experience advising real estate investors, developers, private equity funds, and business organizations on a wide range of real estate transactions including the acquisition, financing, development, leasing and sale of various commercial real estate assets such as shopping centers, office and multi-family projects, warehouse and industrial facilities and hotels, located both in New York City and across the country.

Solving for New York's Office Dilemma: Strategic Developments, Conversions & Building Upgrades

How to Best Handle New York's Most Challenged Asset Class

Melissa Román Burch

Melissa Román Burch

COO

NYC EDC

Ted Traum

Ted Traum

Director, Development

Rockrose

Paul Vosper

Paul Vosper

Executive Vice President

Monday Properties

David Wolfe

David Wolfe

Co-Managing Partner

Skoloff & Wolfe

Mike McElderry

Mike McElderry

Design Director, Associate Principal

Perkins&Will

Chris Nicosia
Moderator

Chris Nicosia

Counsel

Manatt Phelps & Phillips

Ted Traum

Director, Development

Rockrose

Ted Traum leads all aspects of investment strategy, acquisitions, development, and asset

management for Rockrose Development’s commercial business unit. In this capacity, Ted has

executed over $1 billion dollars of acquisitions relating to over 2 million square feet of office

space in New York and Washington D.C. Notable projects include the acquisition and

redevelopment of 11 Madison Square North in New York and Alexander Court, the Row on 19th

Street and 555 11th Street in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Rockrose, Ted was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New

York. Ted received his JD and MBA from New York University and his BA from Columbia

University. Ted began his career as an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Davis

Polk & Wardwell.

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.

Mike McElderry

Design Director, Associate Principal

Perkins&Will

With more than 15 years of experience as an architect and team leader, Mike McElderry has helped navigate a range of complex projects collaborating with both public and private clients such as the University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business and the City of Minneapolis' New Public Service Building, as well as The Shed at Hudson Yards. His professional process is driven by collaboration, mentorship, and an acute ability to identify and convert challenges into innovative and intelligent architectural solutions. McElderry has spent a large part of his career leading and designing iconic projects in a range of sectors, including mixed-use, cultural, and commercial development, and has developed a keen understanding of the nuanced and complex atmosphere in which these projects take shape. His work has received AIA Honor awards from AIA New York and AIA Minnesota, and has written for or been featured in Oculus, Arch Daily, Dezeen, and Architectural Record.

Understanding Tenant Demands: Future Proofing Your Workplace Through Design & Technology

Building Office Infrastructure to Attract Tenants

Jonathan Pearce

Jonathan Pearce

Head of Investments, Office

Ivanhoé Cambridge

Linda Foggie

Linda Foggie

Global Head of Real Estate & Corporate Services

Scotiabank

Jean-Damien Lury

Jean-Damien Lury

Director, Office Transactions

Citi

Rob Wing

Rob Wing

Executive Creative Director

Neoscape

Sandra Yencho

Sandra Yencho

VP

Pacific Program Management

Jeffrey Moerdler

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Haynes and Boone

Vincent Altieri
Moderator

Vincent Altieri

Partner

Citrin Cooperman

Jonathan Pearce

Head of Investments, Office

Ivanhoé Cambridge

As part of the Investment & Innovation global hub, Jonathan Pearce counsels Ivanhoé Cambridge regional teams on all

leasing and development activities to ensure alignment with the company’s strategic objectives. Jonathan has 30 years

of experience in office & industrial leasing and the sale of corporate investment assets throughout North America.

His responsibilities also include leasing for all owned (managed and non-managed) properties and developments in

Canada and the Continental US, currently comprising more than 120 million square feet in multiple markets. Ivanhoé

Cambridge currently has four office developments under construction or pre-development in Austin, Denver, Toronto and

Mexico City, and a variety of industrial projects under development North America. Jonathan also serves on the board

of IDI Logistics, a leading US logistics investor and developer based in Atlanta, that is co-owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge.

Jonathan holds a BSc. (Hons) in Urban Land Economics and is a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of

Chartered Surveyors.

Jean-Damien Lury

Director, Office Transactions

Citi

Jean-Damien joined Citi in late-2022 as Director, North America Transactions Head of Office & Operations. JDL has 20+ years in commercial real estate helping occupiers optimize their portfolios through strategy analysis, transaction implementation, workplace design and construction management.

Prior to his role with Citi, JDL worked for McKinsey & Company as Head of Americas Real Estate and, before that, across Africa and Middle East with Source8 and in the Corporate Solutions practice of JLL in London and Paris.

Jean-Damien holds a degree from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Rob Wing

Executive Creative Director

Neoscape

Rob is in charge of leading projects, guiding strategy and design, coordinating with teams, providing creative input, and supporting sales and business development.

Rob brings a wide range of experience. He has an extensive knowledge of architecture, the development industry, and the global real estate sector. His professional experience as an designer and digital artist gives him an added advantage within the industry.

He has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, such as advertising, architecture, branding, entertainment, and real estate development, spanning large multinational corporations to small design shops.

Notable Projects: Silverstein Properties - 3WTC (New York, NY), Related - 300 Lafayette (New York, NY), RAL - Zero Irving (New York, NY), RD Management - RITHM at Uptown (Tampa, FL), COPT - Canton Pier, (Baltimore, MD), Deerfield - Cure at 345 Park Avenue South (New York, NY), and RXR - Ritz Carlton Residences North Hills (Long Island, NY)

Sandra Yencho

VP

Pacific Program Management

Sandra is a Vice President, East Region for Pacific Program Management, based in

New York City. With over 20 years of architecture, project management and construction

experience, Sandra’s background uniquely enables her to advise clients to formulate

implementation strategies and drive overall program and project performance. Over the

past decade Sandra has focused on increasing workplace value by through design and

operations integration, benefiting workplace users through a holistic approach to

program implementation and project delivery.

Sandra works with professional services, technology, media, life science, hospitality,

and consumer companies, as well as non-profit organizations. Her projects have been

published in Interior Design Magazine, Contract, Architectural Digest and other industry

publications.

She is an active committee member of CoreNet, serving as Vice Chair for the Strategic

Planning Committee and on the Women’s Leadership Committee for the New York City

Chapter. In 2023, she was honored as a Globe Street Women of Influence in the

Corporate Real Estate Executive category and a 2023 St. Francis Women of Valor New

York City recipient. Her interests include career development, coaching, and mentoring

women in architecture, project management, and business.

Sandra is a Registered Architect in New York State. She holds a Master of Architecture

and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a CoreNet Master

of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) designation.

Jeffrey Moerdler

Partner & Chair, Data Center & Digital Infrastructure

Haynes and Boone

Jeff Moerdler is chair of the Haynes Boone Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Practice and a real estate partner in the New York office. He has more than 40 years’ experience in general commercial real estate law. Jeff’s real estate practice includes acquisitions, sales, development, leasing, and borrower’s side financing. Jeff also has a particular focus on real estate challenges facing communications, technology and energy companies, and represents property owners and telecom companies in telecom real estate matters, particularly in data center development, acquisitions, sales, leases, colocation agreements and service level agreements. His clients include both large national companies and smaller, local clients, and includes representation of landlords and tenants in all types of leases; counseling owners and developers in the acquisition, sale, joint venture, development, and renovation of property as well as sale-leaseback transactions; advising lenders and borrowers in commercial loans; and the representation of all parties in real estate litigation. He is actively involved in settling real estate, partnership, and inter-family disputes. He also represents many not-for-profit entities and is active in health care, senior living, and educational real estate.

During the past 35 years, Jeff has developed considerable experience in the intersection of real estate with communications, technology, and energy issues. He has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants, developers, and communications service providers in the leasing, purchase, sale, and financing of data centers, colocation facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas, distributed and in-building wireless systems, rooftop antennas, and fiber-optic transactions as well as the wiring of buildings for broadband communications access. Jeff has also negotiated thousands of data center leases, master services agreements, colocation agreements and service level agreements, rooftop and cellular antenna leases, inside wiring agreements, and antenna tower leases throughout the country – covering over 500 million square feet.

He has also devoted a considerable portion of his practice to power and energy issues related to real estate and other technology matters, including large solar and wind installations, battery storage facilities, and bulk power purchases.

Jeff is a frequent speaker on real estate, data center, and telecom topics around the country. He is Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and on the faculty of the Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute. He regularly speaks as a panelist at data center, digital infrastructure and real estate conference around the United States. In addition, he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bisnow, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Weekly, and other publications. He co-authored the first treatise chapter on telecom real law for Powell on Real Property in 1999.

Jeff has previously served in numerous governmental positions, including as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a member of the New York State Banking Board, a member of the New York State Financial Control Board, a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division of the First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, Assistant to the First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, and assistant to the Deputy Borough President of the Borough of Manhattan. From 1981 to 1982, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Brieant, US District Judge, and later Chief Judge, for the Southern District of New York.

Jeff is also an emergency medical technician on his local volunteer ambulance and President of his local chapter, as well as having served for 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the umbrella organization which is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.

Vincent Altieri

Moderator

Citrin Cooperman

Vincent Altieri is an audit partner with more than 20 years of experience. He serves clients in a broad array of industries, most notably in the real estate and real estate-related sectors. He also provides or has provided tax and accounting services to retail enterprises, night-club and restaurant management, not-for-profit organizations, foundations, wholesalers, insurance brokers, and professional service firms.

He is highly skilled in all phases of audit and other attest engagements, including planning, program execution, and client relations and also prepares GAAP and income-tax basis financial statements and required disclosures for audits, reviews, and compilations.

Vincent also has experience overseeing construction management and monthly requisition processes, including preparation, updating, and maintenance of monthly budgets, interfacing with vendors on various issues, and ensuring timely and accurate submission of reports to lenders to expedite funding.

Vincent prepares domestic multistate corporation and partnership tax returns and income tax returns for tax-exempt organizations. He is extremely knowledgeable in analyzing partnership agreements, commercial and capital leases, financing agreements, insurance, and loan covenants. He conducts due diligence reviews and agreed-upon procedures and performs ratio and variance analysis. Vincent is skilled in evaluating clients’ internal control structures and assists in identifying potential fraud within a business.

Vincent has helped to introduce new technology systems and firm-wide efficiency strategies, time and billing, and other accounting software in addition to participating in implementation of firm-wide financial statement software, including template design, training, and policy development.

Prior to joining Citrin Cooperman, Vincent was an audit partner at Berdon LLP, which joined the firm in 2023.

Fireside Chat: Future of Class A Office

Development, Investment & Asset Management

Philippe Visser

Philippe Visser

President, Office Development

Related

Duncan McCuaig

Duncan McCuaig

Executive Vice President, Director of Leasing

Brookfield Properties

Jonathan Fanuzzi

Jonathan Fanuzzi

Executive Managing Director

Newmark

David Pfeffer
Moderator

David Pfeffer

Partner

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin

Philippe Visser

President, Office Development

Related

Philippe Visser is President of Related Office Development where he leads the company's expansive

commercial office development efforts nationally. Mr. Visser joined Related in 2013 and led the

successful execution of 30 Hudson Yards, a 2.6 million-square-foot, 1,296-foot-tall office tower and the

future home to KKR, Wells Fargo, Time Warner Inc., DNB Bank and Related's corporate offices.

Prior to joining Related, Philippe served as Director, World Trade Center Redevelopment for the Port

Authority of NY & NJ leading the $15 billion, 14 million-square-foot World Trade Center redevelopment.

Mr. Visser was previously responsible for the acquisition and development of New York City projects for

Tishman Speyer, worked in acquisitions at Vornado Realty Trust and ran the day-to-day development of

commercial office and mixed-use projects for Forest City Ratner.

Mr. Visser graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Phi Beta

Kappa member and Truman Scholar. He has an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a Master's

of Science in Regional and Urban Planning from the London School of Economics, which he attended as

a Thouron Fellow. Mr. Visser has previously chaired the YMCA's 2016 and 2017 capital campaigns and is

a member of the Business Advisory Committee of the New York Aquarium and UJA Brooklyn Advisory

Committee and is a Trustee of Kane Street Synagogue.

Jonathan Fanuzzi

Executive Managing Director

Newmark

Jonathan Fanuzzi joined Newmark’s New York City office in 2022 as an Executive

Managing Director, providing both agency leasing and tenant representation services

for a wide range of asset classes and industries. He rejoins Newmark as one of the

senior members of, President of New York Tri-State Region, David Falk’s team.

Over the course of his 24-year career, Fanuzzi has completed more than 20 million

square feet of transactions across the United States for an array of clients. Owners and

investors have entrusted Fanuzzi to lead the leasing campaigns for some of New York

City’s most prominent buildings, such as the Empire State Building, The Seagram

Building, One Liberty, 230 Park Avenue, 452 Fifth Avenue, 1166 Avenue of the

Americas and 101 Avenue of the Americas. Fanuzzi’s expertise in developing and

executing innovative leasing strategies, coupled with his strong analytical skills and

deeply rooted relationships in the brokerage community, have cemented his reputation

as one of the most respected leasing executives in New York City.

As a tenant representative, he has served as trusted advisor to clients across a broad

spectrum of industries, including law firms, boutique financial services companies,

insurance firms, technology and life science companies. Representative clients include

companies such as Syneos Health/INC Research, Parexel, First Light Fiber, Xtellus

Capital, World Gold Council, Schindler, Cohen and Hochman, and L3 Technologies.

Fanuzzi returned to Newmark after a decade at JLL, where he was consistently ranked

among the firm’s top national producers and was awarded their “Top Gun” and “Gold

Achiever” designations multiple times. While at JLL, his team was involved in some of

the most transformative projects in New York City, including HSBC's 580,000-square-

foot renewal at 452 Fifth Avenue, NY Genome Center's 175,000-square-foot lease at

101 Avenue of the Americas, Syneos Health's 87,000-square-foot relocation at 200

Vesey Street and over 240,000 square

David Pfeffer

Moderator

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin

David J. Pfeffer is a partner, chair of Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Construction Practice, and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Pfeffer serves as a business partner to his clients – including real estate owners and developers, educational institutions, high-net-worth individuals, healthcare organizations, and cultural centers – and advises on all aspects of their construction, development, real estate, and business needs. His work has helped reshape skylines through some of the most significant construction and development projects in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island City.

Mr. Pfeffer leverages his keen insight into the business climate to provide clients with sophisticated guidance in order to mitigate risks and manage their complex issues. Combining his understanding of business-focused solutions with a legal perspective, Mr. Pfeffer focuses his practice on project delivery strategies and the preparation and negotiation of design, construction, and related contracts for private and public real estate development projects. He handles matters such as contract preparation, development, continuing operation, leasing and dispute resolution, and also maintains an active practice in business negotiation.

David is a frequent speaker, published author, and quoted source who has been featured in Law360, The Real Deal, Crain’s New York Business, The New York Post, and Real Estate Weekly, among others. He has been ranked in Chambers as a leading construction lawyer in New York (2006–2021) and recognized as a 2020 New York Trailblazer by the New York Law Journal. Mr. Pfeffer serves on various boards including John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Why This Matters

What You'll Learn:

  • How the leasing and subleasing markets are evolving and changing leasing negotiations: including renewals, cost and lease length.

  • Owners, investors and other real estate executives will discuss creative solutions to get deals financed and when keys might go back to the lender.

  • Experts will discuss repositioning, office upgrades and amenity packages that can change the appeal of an asset.

  • Better understand how companies are prioritizing location, community access and amenities to entice landlords to renew and employees to return to the office.

  • Longterm outlook on the office sector over the next 5-10 years. Experts will discuss what this means for company growth, the economic development future of the city & potential buy-low opportunities.

How you'll do more business:

Enhance your business by understanding the short term priorities for office owners, investors, lenders, builders and brokers while also figuring out how to navigate the longterm value for the office sector. Hear from the top public and private office occupiers in the city on tenant demands and which design elements are leading to longer office lease commitments. 

Who attends:

Investors, owners, developers, lenders, office tenants, brokers, public sector companies, architects, contractors, engineers, property managers and you!

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.

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2023 Featured NY Office Projects

Venue

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Agenda

Time Activity
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
1:00 PM
1:30 PM
Fireside Chat: Future of Class A Office
1:30 PM
2:15 PM
Office Leasing Outlook

1. Which tenants are leasing space & how is this changing the current vacant product?
2. How is the subleasing market changing lease negotiating as it relates to renewals, lease length and pricing.

2:15 PM
3:00 PM
Distressed Office & Problem Solving Financing

1. Hear how owners and investors are securing financing for maturing office loans and when keys might be handed back to the lender
2. Better understand what new, creative strategies owners are taking to secure financing and underwrite deals.

3:00 PM
3:15 PM
Networking & Coffee
3:15 PM
4:00 PM
Solving for New York's Office Dilemma: Strategic Developments, Conversions & Building Upgrades

1. Closer look at the viability of repositioning or alternative uses for office spaces
2. Better understand what options office landlords have to improve the quality of their assets.

4:00 PM
4:45 PM
Understanding Tenant Demands: Future Proofing Your Workplace Through Design & Technology

1. What specifically are tenants looking for to get tenants to sign leases?
2. What technology, infrastructure and amenity packages are driving demand to Class A office locations?

4:45 PM
4:55 PM
Networking