Name: Orange County Commercial Real Estate State of the Market [SOLD OUT]
Start: 2025-05-08T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-08T12:00:00-07:00
Location: ARTIC at OCVIBE

Event Host

OCVIBE

OCVIBE is a transformative 100-acre entertainment and lifestyle district in Anaheim, designed to be the ultimate destination for dining, culture, and live experiences. Anchored by Honda Center, home of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks, OCVIBE will feature an exciting mix of chef-driven restaurants, vibrant bars, world-class entertainment venues, modern office spaces, and residential living—all seamlessly connected by lush green spaces, riverfront trails, and cultural attractions.

With ARTIC as the district’s premier transportation hub, OCVIBE offers unparalleled accessibility via rail, bus, and various transit options, making it easy for visitors, residents, and locals to gather and explore. As one of the most ambitious developments in Orange County’s history, OCVIBE is shaping the future of Orange County’s commercial real estate landscape—offering a prime opportunity for investment, growth, and long-term value in a rapidly evolving market.

Speakers and Panels

Welcoming Remarks

Dan Young

Master Planner, OCVIBE

OCVIBE Case Study

Redefining the Downtown Experience for Orange County

Bill Foltz

CEO, OCVIBE

Brian Myers

A graduate of Stanford University in Economics, Mr. Myers has extensive experience in the real estate industry with nearly 40 years of experience. Mr. Myers is the owner and founder of Nuquest Ventures, LLC, a strategic advisor and development partner with corporations holding real estate assets, not core to their business. Nuquest has provided strategic planning, advisory services and partnered with companies such as the Irvine Company, Brookfield, Hanson Aggregates, Five Point Holdings and Lennar. Currently, Mr. Myers is an executive Senior Director with OCVIBE for the under-construction, 125-acre, $4B mixed-use project in Anaheim, CA. (www.ocvibe.com). This transit-oriented mixed-use district will include over 25,000 seats of entertainment, 220,000sf of restaurants and retail, nearly 500,000sf of office, 550 hotel rooms and over 2,500 residential units. Also, currently Mr. Myers is in a partnership with California Coastal Properties and Brookfield Properties in a transit orient development in San Mateo branded as Passage San Mateo (www.passagesm.com). The project is an approved 961-unit, mixed-use apartment community with 38,000sf of retail anchored by Trader Joe’s. The community will integrate, retail services, bike trails, pedestrian passages, arts, wellness, daycare, a food hall and the first of its kind community amenity in the form of a privately operated mobility hub branded as the Depot. Recently, Nuquest managed the strategic entitlement and successful disposition of an 1,800-unit mixed use, TOD master planned community in the City of San Diego, branded as 3Roots San Diego (www.3rootssd.com) for Hanson Aggregates which is under-construction. Nuquest also managed the entitlement and development of the 4,600-acre conversion of the MCAS El Toro Marine Base into the Orange County Great Park Neighborhoods, a 10,000-unit, $5B project that is nearing build-out. Mr. Myers was a Strategic Executive Advisor to the Irvine Company, specifically tasked with helping to establish a Silicon Valley office, creating a business plan for the growth of the company’s Northern California portfolio and meeting the goals of acquiring a pipeline of 10,000 residential units and 3M square foot of Class A office development opportunities. That goal was achieved. The Irvine Company is a $20B+ private development company, the largest private developer in the country with over 4,000 employees. In total, over the past three decades, Mr. Myers has managed the entitlement and development of master planned communities and urban infill projects with over 50,000 residential units, 30M square feet of commercial/office/retail and public facilities such as professional sports stadia, city halls, community centers and large-scale parks. Mr. Myers is a frequent speaker on the topic of structuring public/private partnerships, sustainable development principles and innovation in the real estate industry as a featured speaker for ULI, NAID, NAIOP, ICSC, CAL-CMA, ICSC and CoreNET

OCVIBE

Senior Director

Brian Myers

Senior Director, OCVIBE

Bree Carter

VP, Real Estate Programming & Development Operations, OCVIBE

Ted White

Planning & Building Director, City of Anaheim

Nataly Gattegno

Managing Partner, FUTUREFORMS

Frank Clementi

Partner, Smith-Clementi

Pieter Berger, AIA

Principal, MVE + Partners

Moderator

Scott Frick

SVP, Real Estate Operations, OCVIBE

Orange County CRE Forecast

Economic Outlook, Market Trends, Location Drivers, Acquisition & Development Activity, Capital Markets & Financing

Devang Shah

Managing Director, Acquisitions, Cityview

Jennifer Meade

VP, Leasing, DJM Capital

Trent Brown

Executive Director, Financing, PGIM Real Estate

Robin Singh

VP, Leasing, Lincoln Property Company

Tom Sherlock

Principal, Talonvest

Moderator

Eric Paulsen

COO, Kidder Mathews

Construction & Development Outlook

Leveraging Development Opportunities, Delivering Innovative Solutions, Repositioning, Meeting Changing Market Demands & Driving Leasing Activity

Sean Rawson

Sean Rawson is a recognized leader in the multifamily development and investment industry. An expert in affordable housing, Rawson has a deep understanding of tax credit financing and housing policy. Rawson is an expert in working with local governments to create a diversity of housing types to meet their public policy goals. Since forming Waterford with John Drachman in 2015, Rawson has acquired and developed nearly 6,000 residential units in California totaling approximately $3.5 billion. In 2021, Rawson led Waterford to be the largest owner and operator of Essential Housing units in the State of California with over 4,000 units. Prior to forming Waterford Property Company and its predecessor companies, Rawson was the Southern California President for St. Anton Partners, a leading privately-owned multifamily development company where he led the firm’s expansion into Southern California. Prior to his time working in the multifamily development industry, Rawson began his career with The Concord Group, a national economic market advisory firm, where he conducted market and financial feasibility analysis for homebuilders, developers, private equity groups and lenders. Rawson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont Mckenna College in Government, Economics and History where he graduated with honors. While at Claremont McKenna College, Rawson was a four-year letterman on the men’s varsity basketball team. He also earned an MBA from the University of California, Irvine Merage School of Business with a concentration in real estate finance where he has been a guest lecturer and is on the Board for the UCI Center for Real Estate. Mr. Rawson is an avid sports enthusiast, runner and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mr. Rawson is a resident of Long Beach, CA with his wife and three children where he is very civically engaged.

Waterford Property Company

Co-Founder, Head of Acquisitions and Development

Sean Rawson

Co-Founder, Head of Acquisitions and Development, Waterford Property Company

John Santry

John Santry is the Senior Vice President, California and leads the Costa Mesa office within Ledcor Development LP. He has over 25 years of real estate investment experience and his depth of experience includes all facets of real estate 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 Ledcor Development in February 2020, Mr. Santry served as an executive vice president for Shopoff Realty Investments from 2013 to 2020. 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. Mr. Santry has participated at various professional levels in the acquisition, entitlement, development, construction, lease-up and disposition of approximately 19,000 residential units in Texas, Colorado, New Jersey, Bay Area, and Southern California. Prior to his career in real estate, Mr. Santry served four years on active duty as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps and achieved the rank of Captain. Mr. Santry holds a B.A. in History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and an M.B.A from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Ledcor Development

SVP, Development

John Santry

SVP, Development, Ledcor Development

Sergio Ramirez

Mr. Sergio M. Ramirez is director of Economic Development for the City of Anaheim, where he has served since August 2021. The newly formed Department was established by the City Council on April 13, 2021. Mr. Ramirez plays a leading role in once-in-a-generation investment and development planned around the Honda Center, the Angel Stadium, the Disneyland Resort, and throughout the City. He is leading revitalization efforts on Beach Boulevard, Brookhurst Street, Euclid Street, State College Boulevard, and other major corridors across the city. In the Anaheim Canyon, Ramirez is enhancing the 2,600-acre business park with a diverse range of business clusters focused around industry and innovation. Recently, he has begun implementation of a new branding and signage campaign for the area, as an Innovation District. Mr. Ramirez previously served as the Deputy Director for property and economic development for the City of Long Beach, where he worked on $5 billion in housing, retail, and industrial projects. This included the 2nd and PCH retail center, redevelopment in Belmont Shore, the Shoreline Gateway Tower residential project, Shoreline Village redevelopment, and the redevelopment of Boeing's former Long Beach site with the attraction businesses satellite launch and other innovative uses. Before joining Long Beach in January 2017, Mr. Ramirez served as senior project manager and project manager II for the City of Anaheim's Community and Economic Development Department from 2004 to 2016. Mr. Ramirez holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the California State University Los Angeles, and a Bachelors of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is actively involved in professional groups including the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), and the National Association of Industrial and office Properties (NAIOP).

City of Anaheim

Director, Economic Development

Sergio Ramirez

Director, Economic Development, City of Anaheim

Adam Herig

SVP, HBC

Derek Weisbender

Derek Weisbender enjoys working on challenging and unusual construction and real estate matters that require out-of-the-ordinary ideas and solutions. Derek's background in litigating real estate and construction matters in state and federal court informs his current work in transactional real estate and construction, and aids his ability to draft and negotiate complicated agreements and identify potential pitfalls. Derek understands and can distill even the most complex real estate issues. He advises institutional owners, developers, global technology companies, and other property owners and users on myriad facets of construction and real estate transactions, with an emphasis on construction, design, and purchase and sale agreements for large commercial properties and projects. He has drafted and negotiated design and construction agreements for some of the most exciting and unique projects in the country, including multiple cutting-edge developments with construction values estimated at more than one billion dollars each, and has significant experience in negotiating, documenting, and closing complex commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, and commercial leases, for office, industrial, and retail properties. A licensed California real estate broker and Realtor, Derek also advises buyers, sellers, and agents on high-value residential transactions and matters concerning the residential real estate industry. Derek recently represented clients with numerous construction projects planned across North America, requiring consistent and easily repeatable construction and design agreements. Derek drafted and oversaw development of comprehensive libraries of agreements that addressed all of the project needs and were adaptable for use in multiple states and countries. Allen Matkins Derek has studied internationally at Bond University in Australia and the University of Oxford in England. While in law school, he served as an Executive Editor of the San Diego Law Review. Derek serves his community as a Reserve Sergeant for a California law enforcement agency.

Allen Matkins

Construction Law Attorney

Moderator

Derek Weisbender

Construction Law Attorney, Allen Matkins

Remarks from the Podium

Monnie Johnson

Monnie is Senior Vice President, Wireless Solutions at Boldyn Networks, delivering advanced shared network infrastructure needed for a smart, inclusive, and sustainable future. From interconnected transport to venues, and enterprises to smart cities, we enable new possibilities in the way people live, work and play. Our next-generation networks empower leading sports & entertainment venues across the globe, providing an unmatched visitor experience, unlocking new revenue, and increasing safety and operational efficiency. Designed for high-density crowd environments and proven in over 300 marquee venues, our solutions can deliver consistent coverage and capacity throughout your venue. We don’t just talk about the future, we help build it. As the Senior Vice President of Wireless Solutions at Boldyn Networks, Monnie leads the vertical strategy, partnership management, and scalability efforts for the entire Business Development organization. Her primary focus is on driving growth in the sports and entertainment sector, delivering top-tier wireless solutions to stadiums, arenas, and venues. Monnie is instrumental in expanding relationships and opportunities within professional sports portfolios, including the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLS. Under her guidance, Boldyn has made significant strides in enhancing its cutting-edge 5G network, Wi-Fi, and Private Network solutions across various professional sports and entertainment venues nationwide. Monnie brings a wealth of industry expertise to her role. Before joining Boldyn Networks, she served as the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at ExteNet Systems, where she led all commercial business development. Prior to ExteNet, Monnie was the President of 5 Bars/XG Communities, where she played a pivotal role transforming it into a multimillion-dollar telecom engineering and construction company overseeing the deployment of hundreds of 5G small cells, which led to the firm’s sale. Monnie's telecom management career began at Sprint, where she ultimately managed a $4.3 billion line of business encompassing wireless and wireline technologies. Her experience extends to delivering telecom solutions in the Sports; Entertainment and Commercial Office verticals, as well as collaborating with jurisdictions to engineer and deploy Small Cells, Distributed Antenna Networks, and Wi-Fi solutions. Monnie is a California native and holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from California State University, Long Beach.

Boldyn Networks

Sr VP

Monnie Johnson

Sr VP, Boldyn Networks

Why You Won't Want To Miss This Conference:

What You’ll Learn:

What major developments are in the Orange County pipeline? Which projects will have the greatest impact on OC residents?
What areas of Orange County are developers, owners and industry leaders finding the most opportunity to deploy capital in today’s market? How does this compare to previous years?
Which asset classes are investors most bullish on? Multifamily? Mixed-Use? Retail? Hospitality? Office? Industrial? Healthcare? Life Sciences?
How are evolving capital markets impacting the ability to finance deals in Orange County?
How are industry leaders getting creative in order to provide an experience for those living, working, playing and visiting cities such as Irvine, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Dana Point and Orange?
With rising construction costs, how are contractors, developers and designers finding creative solutions to execute project timelines without dramatically impacting their bottom lines?
What are industry leaders doing to build strong relationships with the local stakeholders?

Notable Projects, Assets & Deals:

OCVIBE: OCVibe is a 100-acre master planned campus taking shape around Honda Center with shopping, dining, sports, entertainment, open space, apartments, offices, parking and more underway. With $255 million invested in economic benefits, OCVIBE's vision for enriching Orange County's culture, community, and economy is becoming a reality. Built around the already iconic ARTIC and Honda Center, OCVIBE will be finalized in phases, welcoming guests starting in 2026.

Who You'll Network With At This Discussion: Owners, Developers, Investors, Architects, Construction, Designers, Brokers, Lawyers, Financial Institutions & Government Officials.

How You'll Do More Business From Attending This CRE Event: Join us to learn about the major developments throughout the Orange County region and how these projects are impacting the commercial real estate scene. Learn from our participating panelists about the emerging opportunities throughout OC, the top reasons to invest in Orange County and how industry leaders are predicting for the year ahead in Irvine, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Dana Point and Orange.

Why You Should Attend This Session: 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 event producer, Samantha D'Angelo at samantha.dangelo@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact thea.parkert@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

ARTIC at OCVIBE
2626 E Katella Ave
Anaheim, CA 92806

Parking Information:

Free parking in front and behind of the Artic Building (Lots A & B)

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 8:50 AM	Networking, Coffee & Breakfast
8:50 AM 9:00 AM	Welcoming Remarks from Dan Young, OCVIBE
9:00 AM 10:00 AM	OCVIBE Case Study Redefining the Downtown Experience for Orange County
10:00 AM 10:15 AM	Networking Break
10:15 AM 11:00 AM	Orange County CRE Forecast Economic Outlook, Market Trends, Location Drivers, Acquisition & Development Activity, Capital Markets & Financing
11:00 AM 11:45 AM	Construction & Development Outlook Leveraging Development Opportunities, Delivering Innovative Solutions, Repositioning, Meeting Changing Market Demands & Driving Leasing Activity
11:45 AM 12:30 PM	More Networking

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Orange County Commercial Real Estate State of the Market [SOLD OUT]

Analyzing CRE Trends, Identifying Investment Opportunities, Assessing the Development Pipeline & Preparing For The Year Ahead Hosted in Anaheim, CA at OCVIBE

Event Host

OCVIBE

Speakers and Panels

Welcoming Remarks

Dan Young

OCVIBE Case Study

Redefining the Downtown Experience for Orange County

Bill Foltz

Brian Myers

Bree Carter

Ted White

Nataly Gattegno

Frank Clementi

Pieter Berger, AIA

Scott Frick

Orange County CRE Forecast

Economic Outlook, Market Trends, Location Drivers, Acquisition & Development Activity, Capital Markets & Financing

Devang Shah

Jennifer Meade

Trent Brown

Robin Singh

Tom Sherlock

Eric Paulsen

Construction & Development Outlook

Leveraging Development Opportunities, Delivering Innovative Solutions, Repositioning, Meeting Changing Market Demands & Driving Leasing Activity

Sean Rawson

John Santry

Sergio Ramirez

Adam Herig

Derek Weisbender

Remarks from the Podium

Monnie Johnson

Why You Won't Want To Miss This Conference:

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Agenda

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Analyzing CRE Trends, Identifying Investment Opportunities, Assessing the Development Pipeline & Preparing For The Year Ahead

Hosted in Anaheim, CA at OCVIBE