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Fireside Chat: South Jersey’s Next Growth Engine

A keynote conversation with Rowan University President Ali Houshmand on how universities, developers, investors and industry can unlock the region’s land, talent and innovation potential

Ali Houshmand
Keynote

Ali Houshmand

President

Rowan University

Randy Ruttenberg
Moderator

Randy Ruttenberg

Founder

Fairmount Properties

From Term Sheet to Topping Out: Financing and Building South Jersey in 2026

With rates, construction costs, and labor squeezing every pro forma, the distance between a funded deal and a finished building has rarely been harder to close

Joe Aristone

Joe Aristone

Chief Revenue Officer

PREIT

Jennifer Nevitt

Jennifer Nevitt

CEO

Bel Canto Asset Growth Fund

George Hayward

George Hayward

Managing Director

Greystar

Michael Floyd
Moderator

Michael Floyd

Partner

Archer & Greiner P.C.

Michael Floyd

Partner

Archer & Greiner P.C.

Mike advises industrial, commercial, and residential property owners and developers on land use planning and zoning, environmental permitting, and regulatory compliance throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He handles all phases of development and redevelopment — including brownfields and adaptive reuse projects — and regularly appears before municipal planning boards, zoning boards of adjustment, governing bodies, county boards, and regional agencies.

Known for "quarterbacking" projects from inception through construction, Mike coordinates the full project team, negotiates with municipal staff and government agencies, prepares land use applications, and drafts municipal and development agreements.

His background in the private sector and as a small business owner gives him a practical understanding of client concerns around entitlements and government bureaucracy. Representative matters include industrial parks, warehouse and distribution facilities, e-commerce fulfillment centers, data centers, affordable housing, mixed-use projects, manufacturing facilities, and renewable energy projects.

Mike also has extensive experience securing approvals for projects that attract neighborhood or political opposition — including billboards, solar farms, group homes, and addiction treatment facilities.

Making Housing Happen: South Jersey’s Next Generation of Communities

How developers are navigating affordability, mixed-income development, public-private partnerships and increasingly complex capital stacks to deliver housing across the region

Hans Lampart

Hans Lampart

President

Eastern Pacific Development

Lindsey Samsi

Lindsey Samsi

Regional Vice President

Pennrose

Tom Juliano

Tom Juliano

CEO

Delco Development

Peter Chacanias
Moderator

Peter Chacanias

Attorney

Flaster Greenberg PC

Lindsey Samsi

Regional Vice President

Pennrose

Lindsey Samsi joined Pennrose in 2016. As a member of the real estate

development team, she assumes full responsibility for the successful

completion of multi-faceted real estate development projects – affordable,

mixed-income, and market-rate – from inception through construction

completion and lease-up. She is responsible for the leadership of an in-

house team of Associate Developers and Assistant Developers, and simultaneously assembles and

manages an external team of financiers, architects, designers, engineers, attorneys, and contractors.

Lindsey manages multiple projects in varying stages of development throughout the City of Philadelphia,

PA, and NJ.

In addition to her work at Pennrose, Lindsey is a member of the Urban Affairs Coalition (UAF) Impact

Development Roundtable (IDR), Women in Housing and Finance of Pennsylvania (WHF-PA), Facilities

Committee of the Board of Directors for the Community Partnership School (CPS), Signature Events

Development Committee of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations

(PACDC), and the Annual Giving Committee of the Pennrose Foundation. Lindsey graduated from

Temple University.

Peter Chacanias

Attorney

Flaster Greenberg PC

Peter A. Chacanias is an attorney in Flaster Greenberg’s Real Estate and Land Use Practice Group. He represents commercial real estate developers, property owners, and investors throughout New Jersey in land use, zoning, environmental, and historic preservation matters. Peter regularly appears before planning and zoning boards and has significant experience with coastal and waterfront development, Pinelands approvals, and complex environmental permitting and regulatory compliance issues.

WHO's in the room

  • Archer & Greiner

  • Arileus

  • AVE by Korman Communities

  • Bel Canto Asset Growth Fund

  • Bohler

  • Brandywine Realty Trust

  • Burlington County Bridge Commission

  • Cherry Hill Township

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  • Cumberland County Improvement Authority

  • Davis Enterprises

  • Delco Development

  • Eastern Pacific Development

  • Fairmount Properties

  • First American Title Company

  • Flaster Greenberg

  • George Smith Partners

  • Gilbane

  • GREA Global Real Estate Advisors

  • Greek Real Estate Partners

  • Greystar

  • Gulph Creek Hotels

  • Harkins Builders

  • JLL

  • JPMorgan

  • Kennedy Wilson

  • Marcus & Millichap

  • Mission First Housing Group

  • Mount Laurel Township

  • Pennrose

  • PNC Bank

  • PREIT

  • Provident Bank

  • Rowan University

  • Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld

  • Rubenstein Partners

  • S&T Bank

  • Scannapieco Development Corporation

  • Scheer Partners

  • Surety Title

  • TD Bank

  • Trammell Crow Company

  • Verde Capital

  • Wheelhouse Capital Group

  • And Many More!

Why you should attend the south jersey state of the market event

Why This Matters

South Jersey is one of the most quietly resilient real estate markets in the Northeast — and the capital moving into it knows the fundamentals are real. Institutional buyers continue to prioritize the region's industrial and multifamily assets, and the housing market across Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties has become one of the tightest and fastest-appreciating in New Jersey, with homes routinely trading above asking. Deep highway and port connectivity, major anchor institutions, and steady spillover demand have made this a region investors underwrite on its own merits — not a place waiting to be discovered.

That strength is attracting serious capital and ambitious plans, from a roughly 2 million-square-foot logistics portfolio trading to a single institutional buyer, to Rowan University's $690 million campus expansion, to the state-led next phase of the Camden waterfront. But what gets built now turns on a tighter equation — rates, construction costs, labor, and the state's incentive toolkit all decide which deals pencil and which wait. Nowhere is that sharper than Camden, where the mega-grants that rebuilt the waterfront have given way to a more disciplined question: what pencils now, and who's still building?

What You'll Learn

  • Where capital is actually flowing across South Jersey — and which asset classes, submarkets, and project types are drawing the strongest investor and lender interest heading into the next 12–24 months

  • Which deals are getting financed in a tighter construction-lending environment, and how developers are structuring capital stacks to make projects pencil

  • How rising materials, labor, and rate pressure are reshaping what gets built — and where experienced builders find room in a budget without compromising the product

  • What Camden's next phase of development looks like now that the incentive landscape has changed, and where the riverfront and surrounding neighborhoods go from here

  • How the region's anchor institutions, public-sector leaders, and private capital are coordinating to turn momentum into delivered buildings

  • How leading developers, brokers, lenders, and advisors are positioning their portfolios for the next cycle

  • What separates the South Jersey deals that move from the ones that stall — straight from the teams executing them

How You'll Do More Business

This is the room where South Jersey's owners, developers, brokers, lenders, designers, builders, and advisors come together to compare notes on the market, pressure-test their assumptions, and find the partners they need for the next round of deals. 

Connect with Professionals From:
Rowan University, PREIT, Greystar, Pennrose, Fairmount Properties, Delco Development, Eastern Pacific Development, Bel Canto Asset Growth Fund, Davis Enterprises, Cumberland County Improvement Authority, Greek Real Estate Partners, AVE by Korman Communities, Gulph Creek Hotels, George Smith Partners, JPMorgan, PNC Bank, Provident Bank, TD Bank, Verde Capital, Archer & Greiner, and many more!

Why You Should Attend

South Jersey's market is moving, and the value is in the room — the people shaping it. Whether you build, finance, broker, advise, design, deliver, lease, or invest, this brings the perspectives and connections that will inform your decisions for the year ahead.

Agenda

Time Activity
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
Registration, Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM
9:20 AM
Fireside Chat: South Jersey’s Next Growth Engine

A keynote conversation with Rowan University President Ali Houshmand on how universities, developers, investors and industry can unlock the region’s land, talent and innovation potential

9:20 AM
10:05 AM
From Term Sheet to Topping Out: Financing and Building South Jersey in 2026

Capital is circling, but costs, rates, and labor decide what gets built. The lenders, investors, and builders in the room on where deals still pencil — and where they stall

10:05 AM
10:20 AM
Networking Break
10:20 AM
11:05 AM
Making Housing Happen: South Jersey’s Next Generation of Communities

How developers are navigating affordability, mixed-income development, public-private partnerships and increasingly complex capital stacks to deliver housing across the region

11:05 AM
12:35 PM
Post-Panel Networking

Venue

DoubleTree by Hilton Cherry Hill
2349 Marlton Pike
Cherry Hill Township, NJ 08002

Room: Riverside Ballroom

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