New York Retail Conference
Tue Jul 22, 2025
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New York Retail Conference
Featured Tenants: Equinox, Maman, Levain Bakery and Marc Jacobs
Leading Tenants, Investment, Leasing, In-Demand Assets & Innovative Design + Build Layouts
$199.00
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Event Host
Convene 101 Park Ave
Located steps from Grand Central Station, Convene 101 Park Avenue is a premium meeting and event space in Midtown Manhattan. With two dedicated floors and multiple rooms of varying sizes, expansive floor-to-ceiling windows, and common spaces flooded with natural light, this venue is ideal for town halls, single-room conferences with breakout sessions, networking receptions, corporate trainings, alumni events, and more.
Accessible via a private street-level entrance, Convene 101 Park Avenue provides a white box space allowing for client and event branding opportunities, in-house catering with customization options and dining private to each event, in-room A/V technology supported by an on-site team, and dedicated hospitality resources.
Event Giveaway: Maman Gift Card
Maman will be giving away a $250 credit towards a private event at their 18th Street location. Sign up and be in attendance for your chance to win.
Speakers and Panels
Developing & Designing Successful Retail Concepts to Meet Consumer Demands
Emerging Retail Concepts & Layouts to Meet Buying Trends
Retail Capital Markets: Transacting, Investing & Acquiring Assets
Investing in Retail Assets, Underwriting Deals & Predicting Future Deal Flow
Leasing: Inside Look into Terms, Tenants & The Landlord's Approach
Rent Growth, Leasing Strategies & Supply + Demand
Identifying the Next Big Retail Categories & In-Demand Locations
Top Retail Spaces & Concepts Across NYC
Molly Sandza
Alex Solomon
Chandler Slate
Stu Cosgriff
Alvin Schein
Inside the Future of Retail CRE: Why This Event Is a Must-Attend
What You'll Learn:
- Gain better insight into what tenants are looking for to level up their brand and consumer engagement strategies and what this means for their in store locations.
- Retail continues to surge as an in-demand asset class, hear what the experts think about what is next for the retail market fundamentals.
- Top retail tenants will discuss the recent shifts they are seeing in consumer trends and how that is impacting their company's real estate needs.
- Hear how investors and developers are assessing growth opportunities across different retail products, including: shopping centers, malls, ground-floor urban retail and suburban store fronts.
- Which markets are leading the way with deals, foot traffic and leasing? What are the differentiators in those areas?
- Owners, developers, tenants, brokers and more will discuss in-demand areas ranging from New York City neighborhoods to cities on the East and West coasts.
- Get the inside scoop on what retail leases are transacting and what lease terms and length looks like in an unpredictable capital markets environment.
- Hear from designers, builders and engineers on designing the next wave of retails spaces and what tenants are looking for in their spaces in terms of technology and space layouts.
How you'll do more business:
Enhance your business by gaining a stronger understanding for the increased optimism for the retail sector, where deals are getting done and how this is impacting the future of mixed-use communities. Gain a better understanding of how the real estate industry can benefit from understanding how consumers are shopping and where they are spending time.
Who attends:
Investors, owners, developers, retail tenants, leasing brokers, capital markets brokers, retail end users, designers, contractors, architects, property managers, law firms and consultants.
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.
Venue
Convene 101 Park Ave
101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Ballroom: Chrysler Forum
Parking Information:
No on-site parking
Agenda
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8:00 AM 9:00 AM |
Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
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9:00 AM 9:40 AM |
Developing & Designing Successful Retail Concepts to Meet Consumer Demands
1. From unique customer experiences and bold store layouts, hear how retail brands are positioning retail assets to meet the evolving needs of their brand.
2. Gain insight into what goes into tenant fit outs and what types of assets are most advantageous for executing these upgrades. |
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9:40 AM 10:20 AM |
Retail Capital Markets: Transacting, Investing & Acquiring Assets
1. Hear from owners, investors and brokers about retail's historic hot streak and how the sector will handle financing headwinds and market uncertainty.
2. This panel will dive into how investors and developers look at ground floor urban retail and grocery-anchored assets vs. traditional open air malls. 3. Retailers have begun to buy assets instead of leasing them. Is this trend here to stay? |
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10:20 AM 10:35 AM |
Coffee & Networking
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10:35 AM 11:15 AM |
Leasing: Inside Look into Terms, Tenants & The Landlord's Approach
1. This panel will focus on New York City's top retail brands and what types of companies are primed to sign leases in 2025 and 2026.
2. Get the inside scoop on lease pricing, length and overall vacancy in the market. 3. Panelists will do a deep dive on top locations for retailers across Manhattan, Brooklyn and other emerging NYC locations. |
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11:15 AM 11:55 AM |
Identifying the Next Big Retail Categories & In-Demand Locations
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11:55 AM 12:05 PM |
Networking
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Tickets
Group Tickets
$175.00 /ticket
Unlock exclusive savings for groups of 3 or more attendees
Featured Retail Projects and News
- Inside look into how Equinox became New York's biggest retail tenant
- Hear from REITs are seeing about consumer behavior
- Dumbo Market is opening first manhattan supermarket
- Acadia Realty buys 85 Fifth Avenue Retail Co-Op from SL Green for $47M
- Maman opens new 7,000 sq ft flagship store in Flatiron
- Acadia spends $60 millions on three more Williamsburg properties
- Levain Bakery lease deal in Flatiron
- Urban Edge Properties 2025 Q1 Earnings
- Urban Edge announces restaurant lease
- Levain Bakery expanding to Venice and Beverly Hills in California
- Maman continues to expand outside of New York City
- Urban Edge Properties continues the acquisition strategies with East Coast shopping centers
- Equinox 75 Varick deal
- Vornado lands $450 millions CMBS loan for high-profile Times Square retail space
- Old Navy to open new store in Biggest NYC retail lease of 2025
- Old Navy flagship in Vornado's Herald Square building to close this summer
- Downtown retail space goes into foreclosure
- Luxury brands turn to outlet stores
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