Bay Area Hospitality & Retail Summit

Thu Dec 11, 2025

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Bay Area Hospitality & Retail Summit

Exploring Supply & Demand Dynamics, Revitalizing Union Square, Experiential Design, and Tenant Demand Drivers

Thursday December 11 2025 @ 8:00 AM PST

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Event Host

L4 at 945 Market

Ingka Centres’ 945 Market is proud to announce the official grand opening of L4, San Francisco’s newest modern event venue. The 3,877-square-foot space is set up to become a hub for community gatherings, company celebrations, and cultural events in the city’s historic Mid-Market District.

945 Market is a six-floor destination for shopping, dining, working, and gathering, anchored by IKEA and Saluhall. The building includes retail, office, and entertainment spaces that support a vibrant downtown ecosystem.

Designed to bring people together for everything from corporate meetings and conferences to live performances and private celebrations, L4 offers a flexible layout, design-forward interiors, and built-in catering options from Saluhall, the food and social hall located on the first two floors of the building.

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Bay Area’s Retail Landscape: Resilience, Reinvention & New Demand Drivers

Exploring Shifting Supply vs Demand Dynamics, Retail Economics, Urban Revitalization, and the Evolving Consumer Experience

Michael Van Every

Michael Van Every is the President and Managing Partner of Republic Urban Properties, the Bay Area flagship of the Republic Family of Companies. Mr. Van Every works with Federal, State, and Local governments on the creation and development of ‘smart growth’ projects, such as master-planned communities near transportation hubs; urban mixed-use projects near major employment centers; and innovative, public-private partnerships. The Republic Family of Companies is known for developing institutional-quality real estate throughout the United States, from land development, to historic adaptive reuse, to shopping malls. In his 25 years of working experience representing major institutional and private real estate developers in the greater Bay Area, Van Every has earned the reputation as a man with the leadership, the knowledge, the experience, and tenacity to see complicated projects through from land acquisition to completion. Under Van Every’s leadership, RUP has gained national attention for its Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects at key transit stations working as the premier public-private partner with many transit authorities across California. Since 2006, as the managing partner of RUP, Van Every has been involved with the planning, financing, construction, and delivery of 1,238 multifamily units and 145,000 square feet of mixed-use commercial space. In addition to the multifamily pipeline, RUP has approximately 380 hotels rooms, 151,000 square feet of office, and 120,000 square feet of retail in various stages of development. The estimated market value among projects is projected at $1.5 billion in value. A third-generation San Jose native, Van Every holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from California State University at Fresno. Van Every is an active member of San Jose Rotary Club as well as the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. He also serves as a Board Member on Santa Clara County Catholic Charities. Michael is married and lives with his wife Jennifer and Jacob in the Willow Glen Neighborhood of San Jose.

Republic Urban Properties

President and Managing Partner

Michael Van Every

President and Managing Partner, Republic Urban Properties

Laurie Thomas

Executive Director, Golden Gate Restaurant Association

Joshua Callahan

Managing Director, The Roxborough Group

Miia Kautovaara

Meeting Place Manager, Ingka Centres

Julie Baccelli

VP of Acquisition & Corporate Affairs, Build Group

Moderator

Cherie Song

Partner, Lubin Olson

The Future of Bay Area Hotels: Demand, Investment & Experience

Where RevPAR Trends, Brand Strategy, and Experiential Design Intersect to Shape Modern Hospitality

Kimo Bertram

VP, Real Estate & Development, Hyatt Hotels

Todd Chapman

Managing Partner and President, JMA Ventures

Audrey Mockler

Project Manager, Architecture + Development, Kimpton Hotels

Sar Peruri

COO and Partner, Oxford Capital Group & Oxford Hotels & Resorts

Lynn Cadwalader

Lynn Cadwalader leads the Firm’s Hospitality and Leisure practice. Her work involves representing developers, owners, operators and investors in complex hospitality and mixed-use projects within the United States and around the world. Lynn is a seasoned hospitality lawyer, providing creative and business-focused counsel to her clients. She has been a key player in many high-profile hospitality transactions, where her ability to creatively structure solutions that work for all participants has been invaluable. Lynn’s areas of practice include: Acquisitions and dispositions of hotels and resorts in single-asset and multi-asset portfolio transactions Hotel management agreements, franchise agreements, technical services and preopening agreements, marketing license agreements, subordination, non-disturbance and attornment (SNDA) agreements, and comfort letters Structuring and creating mixed-use urban and resort communities Resort and mixed-use development and master-planned community documents, including covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs), reciprocal easement agreements (REAs), shared facilities agreements, condominiums, private membership agreements Restaurant, celebrity chef and nightclub management agreements Offer and sale of residential real estate and condo hotels in mixed-use projects Condo hotels, rental programs and fractional ownership Joint ventures Forming and advising companies in the alternative lodging sector Advising companies in the short-term online rental platform area Development agreements and related entitlements Lynn brings more than two decades of experience to the table, advising on a multitude of complex, high-profile hospitality transactions in the United States and internationally, including Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Her deep industry knowledge of hospitality, extensive network of relationships with key players in the industry and legal acumen make her a highly sought-after legal counsel to clients in all sectors of the hospitality industry. Her reputation as an exceptional practitioner has led her to receive multiple awards, including being ranked Band 1 by Chambers & Partners in its USA Leisure & Hospitality 2025 Guide.

Manatt, Phelps, & Phillip

Partner

Moderator

Lynn Cadwalader

Partner, Manatt, Phelps, & Phillip

What You'll Learn:

What You’ll Learn:

Gain insight into the current supply vs. demand dynamics across the Bay Area’s hospitality markets and how the robust convention calendar and the 2026 FIFA World Cup are impacting demand and developments.
Explore how shifting retail lease rates and vacancy trends from Union Square to suburban hubs are shaping investment strategies, tenant retention, and leasing velocity.
Learn how design and construction innovations are driving both hotel repositioning and retail renovations — from tenant improvements that enable experiential retail to the $200M in planned upgrades for some of San Francisco’s largest hotels.
Understand the drivers behind recent retail market shifts, from anchor tenant move-outs at San Francisco Centre to high-profile openings like Zara’s upcoming Union Square flagship, and discover how creative leasing and placemaking are redefining shopping districts.
Gain insight into the design trends and collaborative strategies that top architects, contractors, and developers are employing to deliver retail and hospitality spaces aligned with modern consumer and guest preferences.
Uncover the key economic, financial, and operational factors influencing retail and hospitality investment decisions across the Bay Area, and how leaders are navigating cost pressures while positioning for long-term growth.

Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, and bankers.

Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you 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 we do.

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Venue

L4 at 945 Market
945 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Ballroom: 4th floor

Parking Information:

Garage Parking at venue - $15 flat rate for attendees

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM 9:05 AM	Opening Remarks
9:05 AM 9:50 AM	Bay Area’s Retail Landscape: Resilience, Reinvention & New Demand Drivers Exploring Shifting Supply vs Demand Dynamics, Retail Economics, Urban Revitalization, and the Evolving Consumer Experience
9:50 AM 10:10 AM	Networking Break
10:10 AM 10:55 AM	The Future of Bay Area Hotels: Demand, Investment & Experience How RevPAR Trends, Brand Strategy, and Experiential Design Are Shaping Modern Hospitality
10:55 AM 11:30 AM	Closing Networking

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