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Manuel Fishman

Manuel Fishman

Shareholder

Buchalter

Mickey Ankhelyi

Mickey Ankhelyi

Director of Architecture

Clark Pacific

Jim Carbone

Jim Carbone

CEO

The Swig Co.

Wen Sang

Wen Sang

CEO

Smarking

Stephanie Smith
Emcee

Stephanie Smith

VP, West Coast

Bisnow

Glenn Good

Glenn Good

General Manager

Tishman Speyer

Ann Cheng

Ann Cheng

Founder/Principal

Ann Cheng Consulting

Manuel Fishman

Shareholder

Buchalter

Manuel Fishman focuses his practice on representing real estate developers and owners in the acquisition, sale, and financing of commercial properties. In addition, he has an active leasing practice representing owners of several major office buildings in San Francisco, including the Transamerica Pyramid, as well as tenants in lease and sublease transactions. His expertise includes letters of intent, tenant improvement work agreements, security deposits/letters of credit, signage rights, expansion and contraction rights, permitted transfers, operating expense audits, and lender and master landlord recognition agreements. Mr. Fishman maintains close relationships with the real estate brokerage community and utilizes these relationships to provide clients with market based information important to their existing and prospective real estate requirements. Mr. Fishman also has extensive experience in the area of ground leasing and retail leasing and is recognized as a leading attorney in the area of landline and wireless communications and Internet-based services in commercial properties and rooftop installations.

In addition, Mr. Fishman acts as outside general counsel to start-ups that seek to leverage some part of commercial real estate into a tech application, and helps guide these companies in their efficient use of legal time and expertise in various subject matters, from employment and IP to enterprise contracts and web site privacy policies.

Mr. Fishman also represents clients in equity structuring for, and the acquisition of, value add properties, including the formation of single purpose entities and joint ventures, and acquisition financing. Mr. Fishman has negotiated numerous construction management, project development and property management agreements relative to ground up development projects, as well as all types of easements and other adjoining owner agreements.

Mr. Fishman serves as chair of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of San Francisco’s Government Affairs and Policy Advisory Committee (GAPAC). He served on BOMA San Francisco’s Board of Directors from 2003–2006, and was the recipient of the 2006 Associate Member of the Year from BOMA San Francisco. He is the past representative of BOMA San Francisco to the California BOMA Board. Mr. Fishman is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Real Property Sections of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California.

Most recently, Mr. Fishman has been recognized as a 2017 Best Lawyer in America in Real Estate Law, an honor he has received since 2007, and was recognized as a 2014 Top Rated Lawyer by American Lawyer Media in conjunction with Martindale Hubbell. He has also been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer from 2012-2016 and as one of Bay Area Magazine’s Top Lawyers in the Bay Area.

Mr. Fishman is a frequent lecturer on office and shopping center leasing matters and writes frequently for industry newsletters.

Mickey Ankhelyi

Director of Architecture

Clark Pacific

As director of architecture for Clark Pacific, Mickey oversees all aspects of design and delivery on parking structures where he is the Architect of Record. Mickey’s experience in corporate campus architecture includes mixed-use developments, large scale industrial parks, regional shopping centers and parking structures contributes to the overall design strength of Clark Pacific’s team.

Mickey is part of an integrated, collaborative team at Clark Pacific that includes in-house architects, engineers, builders, and prefabrication

specialists who collectively bring owners a new choice in parking structure construction: Design-Manufacture-Build. With his extensive background in commercial development, design and project delivery, Mickey helps lead Clark Pacific’s integrated drive to deliver projects for owners that bring greater cost, schedule, and scope certainty than any other approach.

Jim Carbone

CEO

The Swig Co.

Jim Carbone joined The Swig Company in 2018 as President and Chief Executive Officer and as such is responsible for all aspects of the company’s operations, asset management strategies and investment activities. He is also primarily responsible for building and maintaining relationships with financial partners and reporting to the Company’s Board of Directors and ownership group. Mr. Carbone has spent the last 38 years in multiple facets of commercial real estate including brokerage, development and institutional advisory, including the last 22 years as a partner at RREEF and its successor company, Deutsche Asset Management. Throughout his career, Mr. Carbone has demonstrated success in value creation, successful investment realization and strategic planning. Mr. Carbone is a member of Lamda Alpha, ULI, NAIOP and ICSC.

Wen Sang

CEO

Smarking

Wen Sang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Smarking (https://www.smarking.com/), a tech company hired by organizations like Brookfield Properties, Tishman Speyer, Hines, JP Morgan Asset Management, LaSalle Investment Management, and many others to maximize the NOI and return of their parking assets, currently empowering 2,500+ parking properties across North America, backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator. Wen has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Wen loves running, sailing (MIT Sailing Club), and golfing.

Glenn Good

General Manager

Tishman Speyer

Glenn Good is the General Manager at 333 Bush in San Francisco for Tishman Speyer. Glenn is an experienced, results‑oriented real estate executive with expertise in commercial property and facilities management as well as leasing. He has a strong background in market analysis, planning, implementation, security, budgeting, strategic planning and tenant relations. Glenn’s track record of achievement in developing and implementing systems to significantly improve profits and capital appreciation is noteworthy. Glenn is currently the President-Elect of BOMA San Francisco, a member of the BOMA California Board of Directors, and Secretary on the Downtown Community Benefit District in San Francisco.

Ann Cheng

Founder/Principal

Ann Cheng Consulting

Ann is an expert in shifting paradigms to accelerate climate protection and equity with land use and transportation policies. She creates visionary, innovative pilots, projects and programs to guide market preferences that result in billions of dollars in quantifiable change, millions of miles in reduced driving and millions of pounds of less carbon emitted. She does this by weaving connections across sectors, geographies and approaches.

To every project, she brings her unique combination of roles, over 20 years, as a professional planner in the public, private, non-profit advocacy sectors and serving as Mayor of her hometown El Cerrito, California. Her contribution to teams is as a translator across silos and integrator of strategies grounded in technical, political and fiscal pragmatism. She maintains a laser focus on the co-created purpose and outcomes of any project she is leading or working on.

Ann is adept with policies, data, community engagement and creation of mapbased web tools to scale change quickly. She is continuing to support cities, government agencies and developers in creating land use and transportation projects, policies, programs, research, outreach, best practices and tech tools to address the extreme lack of housing in most metropolitan areas and conversely to bring mobility and opportunity to places in the greatest need.

Summary

  1. What changes to office construction and design have come as a result of the pandemic?

  2. What steps are developers taking to maintain relationships with their office tenants and encourage them to keep their leases?

  3. How are operators adapting to the growing work-from-home culture?

  4. Has the "downtime" in office buildings allowed owners and developers to refocus on sustainability? If so, how?

  5. How are developers reducing construction costs today?

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