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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
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Ali Houshmand
President
Rowan University
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
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Joe Aristone
Chief Revenue Officer
PREIT
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Jennifer Nevitt
CEO
Bel Canto Asset Growth Fund
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George Hayward
Managing Director
Greystar
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Hans Lampart
President
Eastern Pacific Development
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Lindsey Samsi
Regional Vice President
Pennrose
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Michael Floyd
Partner
Archer & Greiner P.C.
Additional Featured Speakers:
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Nick Cangelosi
SVP
The Michaels Organization
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Tom Juliano
CEO
Delco Development
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Peter Chacanias
Attorney
Flaster Greenberg PC
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.
Who Attends
Owners, developers, investors, lenders, brokerage leadership, multifamily and commercial developers, general contractors and construction managers, architects and engineers, real estate counsel, tax and incentive advisors, economic-development and public-sector decision-makers, and the institutional and private capital sources active across the Philadelphia and South Jersey region.
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
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8:00 AM
9:00 AM
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Registration, Breakfast & Networking
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9:00 AM
9:30 AM
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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 |
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9:30 AM
10:15 AM
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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 |
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10:15 AM
11:00 AM
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Post-Panel Networking
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