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HIVE

HIVE

HIVE, located at the intersections of South Coast Drive and Susan Street in Costa Mesa, was the former headquarters of Emulex. In 2015, SteelWave purchased the 3-building, 190,000 SF project and began the transformation to an indoor/outdoor creative campus. Designed to engage and energize, HIVE offers a mix of flexible work and social spaces—places to collaborate or to focus, as well as inviting “play” spaces to gather for coffee (the Lost Bean) opened shop in October 2017), or lunch out of doors. Building interiors open onto a lush exterior setting, allowing employees an easy transition from a desk to a sunken outdoor meeting space, or to the Glass Barn, an airy, light-filled glass structure ideal for communal work or conversation. HIVE is located in the midst of a hub of creative companies, attracted by the energy of an emerging market where commerce and the southern California lifestyle converge. Newport Beach and Huntington Beach are less than twenty minutes away. The project also provides easy access to primary corridors that connect to John Wayne Airport, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Speakers and Panels

Economic Outlook

Market Trends and 2018 Forecast

Mollie Carmichael

Mollie Carmichael

Principal

Meyers Research

Ella Shaw Neyland

Ella Shaw Neyland

President

Steadfast Companies

Matt Fogt
Moderator

Matt Fogt

Partner

Allen Matkins

Mollie Carmichael

Principal

Meyers Research

Mollie is a leading strategist with a career spanning 25+ years as a builder, developer, and consultant in the residential real estate industry. Her experience includes conducting market studies throughout the country, land acquisition strategies, business planning for future growth, competitive product research, and even tactical marketing planning and design. Most notably, she has been a thought leader with consumer insights and product research throughout the nation. Since 2011, Mollie led one of the largest consumer survey efforts for the new home building industry with 10,000 to 20,000+ home shoppers. The survey effort revealed what consumers value and what they will pay for in their next community and home.

Prior to joining Meyers Research, Mollie was a Principal with John Burns Real Estate Consulting for almost 10 years. In addition, Mollie served as Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Lennar and Kovach Marketing, Regional Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Pulte Homes/Del Webb for the California Region, and Vice President of Residential Product Planning for The Irvine Company.

Ella Shaw Neyland

President

Steadfast Companies

Ella Shaw Neyland serves as President and affiliated director of Steadfast Apartment REIT III. She also serves as President and an affiliated director of Steadfast Apartment REIT and Steadfast Income REIT, positions she has held since October 2012. From October 2011 to September 2012, Ms. Neyland served as an independent director and Audit Committee Chair of Steadfast Income REIT. Ms. Neyland has considerable experience in real estate investment, development and finance. Most recently, while with Montecito Medical Investment Company, she advised the company in the acquisition of 43 medical properties with over two million square feet in 13 states, as well as the acquisition of 8,300 apartments in 29 communities. From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Neyland served as Executive VP, Treasurer and Investor Relations Officer of United Dominion Realty Trust (“UDR”), where she was responsible for capital market transactions, banking relationships, and presentations to investors and Wall Street analysts. Ms. Neyland also was a voting member of UDR’s Investment Committee, which oversaw the repositioning of over $3 billion of investments. Prior to 2001, Ms. Neyland served as the CFO at Sunrise Housing, a privately-owned multifamily development company, and as the Senior VP of Finance and the VP of Troubled Debt Restructures/Finance for the Lincoln Property Company, a multifamily development and property management firm. In addition to her extensive real estate background, Ms. Neyland has held executive positions in the banking industry, including CIBC, BancOne and Frost Bank. Ms. Neyland is currently a Board member for the Investment Program Association (IPA) and she is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Ms. Neyland received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Matt Fogt

Moderator

Allen Matkins

Matthew R. Fogt actively works with the firm’s land use, real estate, environment, natural resource and energy practice groups. He also works with a broad range of asset types, including master-planned communities, renewable energy facilities, mixed-use projects, airports, resource extraction, hospitality properties, agriculture, as well as office, industrial, multi-family and retail properties. The breadth of Matthew’s expertise provides unique efficiency and value to clients in that he routinely performs work typically done by two or more separate attorneys.

Within the land use realm, Matthew regularly obtains development approvals from various local, state and federal agencies, performs entitlement and zoning review as part of acquisitions, navigates projects through the California Environmental Quality Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, processes subdivision maps, advises regarding redevelopment issues, including prevailing wage, arranges public finance, including community facilities districts, advises regarding affordable housing, and negotiates complex conservation easements and development agreements.

Within the real estate realm, Matthew regularly handles the following transactions: purchase and sale, debt and equity financing, public finance, leasing, utility agreements, master developer representation, easements, Department of Real Estate and owners’ associations, title review, construction agreements, infrastructure agreements, exactions and fee agreements, consultant agreements, construction defect, and eminent domain.

In addition to general land use and real estate matters, Matthew also regularly advises regarding renewable energy projects, utility rights-of-way, state and federal resource permits, habitat conservation plans, remediation plans, underground storage tanks, and brownfield development.

Matthew resides in Irvine with his wife and five children. He volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America and his church's youth program and coaches soccer, football and softball.

Investing in the OC Market

Office, Industrial, Multifamily, and Mixed-use

James Watson

James Watson

CEO

CT Realty Investors

Scott Lanni

Scott Lanni

Principal

The Koll Company

Ryan Gallagher

Ryan Gallagher

SMD & Orange County Office Co‑Head

HFF

Carl Groner

Carl Groner

SVP, Acquisitions and Capital Transactions

Monday Properties

John Santry

John Santry

Executive Vice President

Shopoff Realty Investments

Kurt Strasmann
Moderator

Kurt Strasmann

Executive Managing Director

CBRE

James Watson

CEO

CT Realty Investors

James “Watty” Watson has spent a 35-year career in the commercial real estate investment, development and management business. He currently serves as President and CEO of CT Realty Investors in Orange County, California.

CT Realty Investors has enjoyed a twenty year history of successful and profitable real estate investment, development, and management activities and has acquired and sold over $2.5 Billion in real estate. Since 1994, CT has invested in industrial, office and multi-family properties, as well as distressed commercial debt. CT’s investment platform has cultivated and fostered a community of sophisticated and diverse private and institutional investors.

Previously, Watty served as President of the Koll Development Company where he was responsible for real estate investment and development in the Western United States and Mexico. Koll developed or acquired more than 75 million square feet of institutional quality commercial real estate including office, industrial, and retail properties during its history.

Prior to Koll, James was President of SDC Investments, successor to the Santa Anita Development Company. SDC developed several million square feet of commercial real estate throughout the southwest United States prior to Watty merging SDC operations into the Koll Company in 1990.

As a graduate of the University of Southern California, he earned a bachelor's degree in Public Administration. James was President of the Orange County Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and served on its National Board of Directors. He is also a member in the ULI and was appointed by Governor Wilson as State Racing Commissioner on the California Horse Racing Board and served for four years.

Watty is Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board of the UC Irvine Center for Real Estate at the Paul Merage School of Business. He resides in Newport Beach with his wife and three children.

Scott Lanni

Principal

The Koll Company

Mr. Lanni is a Principal with the Company responsible for capital markets and investment management. Scott has 18 years of commercial real estate experience and has completed over $6 Billion of acquisitions and capitalization. Mr. Lanni has previously held senior positions with both The Irvine Company and Lyon Communities where he was responsible for the acquisition and investment efforts . Lanni earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and also earned his MBA from the University of Southern California including international business courses taken at London Business School in the UK. He is a licensed California real estate broker.

Ryan Gallagher

SMD & Orange County Office Co‑Head

HFF

Mr. Gallagher is a Senior Managing Director and co-head of the Orange County office of HFF. He also oversees

the firm’s office investment sale practice in Southern California. Mr. Gallagher joined the firm in November 2009

to open the investment sales platform in Southern California. Mr. Gallagher is part of the firm’s leadership team

and a standing member on the National Presentation Team, which deals with the firm’s largest and most highprofile

assignments.

Prior to HFF, Mr. Gallagher was a Senior Vice President and top national producer for Grubb and Ellis’

Institutional Capital Markets Group. Throughout his career, he has been involved with acquisitions and

dispositions totaling more than $15 billion of office, industrial and retail product across the western U.S. Prior to

Grubb and Ellis, Mr. Gallagher worked for Deutsche Bank/RREEF. While there, he assisted in the management

of a portfolio totaling 20 million square feet of office and industrial space for RREEF’s largest client, CalPERS.

He was responsible for underwriting the portfolio and assisting with overall portfolio strategy.

Carl Groner

SVP, Acquisitions and Capital Transactions

Monday Properties

Carl Groner is Senior Vice President for Monday Properties leading efforts in acquisitions and capital

markets for the west coast.  Prior to joining Monday Properties, Mr. Groner was a Principal of Palisades

Property Trust, a real estate investment management and advisory firm. His 18 years of industry

experience includes leading over $2 billion of real estate investments on behalf of institutional equity

partners Apollo Real Estate Advisors, Oaktree Capital Management, and Transwestern Investment

Company.

Mr. Groner earned his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, where he was a California Leadership

Scholar. He completed graduate studies in finance at MIT and his master’s degree at USC, where he was

a Dean's Merit Scholar.

John Santry

Executive Vice President

Shopoff Realty Investments

John Santry is the Executive Vice President of Acquisitions & Development and leads the Land Division within Shopoff Realty Investments. He has over 20 years of real estate development experience and his depth of experience includes all facets of residential development and acquisition including site selection, due diligence, market research analysis, contract negotiation, financial modeling and development analysis, as well as project entitlement, design consultant team management and project financing. His expertise also includes construction oversight, property management oversight, asset management, and property dispositions.

Prior to joining Shopoff Realty Investments in 2013, Mr. Santry was a principal with Santry Development LLC, a company he founded in 2009, where he pursued acquisition and development opportunities, as well as assisted a variety of clients with real estate consulting needs and development project management. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Santry was vice president of the apartment division for Intracorp, where he created the apartment development and acquisition platform for Intracorp’s Southern California office. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Santry served as the regional partner for JLB Partners, establishing the Southern California office, which was one of seven regional offices. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Santry was a regional vice president and development partner with Legacy Partners.

Before moving to Southern California in 2003, Mr. Santry resided in Dallas, Texas and was the regional development manager for JPI Development’s Texas region. He has participated at various professional levels in the entitlement, development, construction, lease-up and disposition of approximately 15,000 residential units in Texas, Colorado and Southern California. Prior to his career in real estate development, Mr. Santry served four years on active duty as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Mr. Santry holds a B.A. in History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and an M.B.A from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Kurt Strasmann

Moderator

CBRE

Mr. Strasmann is the Executive Managing Director of CBRE’s Orange County Operations as well as the functional Southern California Industrial & Logistics Market Leader. Mr. Strasmann’s Orange County responsibilities include leading a team of over 360 professionals in the Orange County Region with direct oversight of all lines of business and services CBRE provides to the marketplace. As the Functional Industrial Leader, Mr. Strasmann has the additional responsibility of managing approximately 130 selling industrial professionals throughout 12 Southern California offices. Mr. Strasmann also serves as the management oversight for CBRE’s National Port Logistics and E-Commerce specialty practice groups.

Prior to CBRE, Mr. Strasmann served as the Managing Director of Brokerage Operations for Voit’s Orange County, Los Angeles County and Inland Empire Operations. Mr. Strasmann’s region accounted for approximately 75% of Voit’s revenue and profit. Mr. Strasmann was directly responsible for opening up offices in Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire for Voit. Mr. Strasmann eventually resigned at Voit to accept a position at CBRE.

Prior to Voit Real Estate Services, Mr. Strasmann worked at Grubb & Ellis Company for 24 years. Mr. Strasmann held many positions at Grubb & Ellis working his way up from an Industrial Broker to eventually serving as the Executive Vice President and Regional Managing Director (Orange County, San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire operations). Mr. Strasmann’s region was recognized as the largest and most profitable region nationwide for Grubb & Ellis. Additionally, Mr. Strasmann served on Grubb & Ellis’ National Executive Committee. Mr. Strasmann eventually resigned from Grubb & Ellis to accept a position at Voit Real Estate Services.

Welcome Remarks

Jay Nugent
WELCOME REMARKS

Jay Nugent

Senior Managing Director

Newmark Knight Frank

Summary

1. How are developers modernizing their portfolios for the future?

2. How do we see autonomous vehicles impacting the local CRE Market in OC? Who is well positioned for the change?

3. Where is the center trending? Irvine/Airport? Costa Mesa? Spectrum/South OC?

4. Can OC strategically "Densify?" Can we build more high-rise like One Broadway & 400 Spectrum?

5. How will OC's well-designed master plans contribute to market growth in the future?

Venue

SteelWave's HIVE
3337 Susan St
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Floor: First Floor


Complimentary On-site Surface Lot - Use Sunflower Ave. entrance & park in the reserved event parking spots

Agenda

Time Activity
3:30 PM
4:25 PM
Breakfast & Networking
4:25 PM
4:30 PM
Welcome Remarks from our Host
4:30 PM
5:15 PM
Economic Outlook: Market Trends and 2018 Forecast
5:15 PM
6:00 PM
Investing in the OC Market: Office, Industrial, Multifamily, and Mixed-use
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
Coffee & Networking

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