Florida Industrial & Manufacturing Conference

Tue Oct 13, 2026

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Florida Industrial & Manufacturing Conference

Capital, Conversion, and the New Demand Drivers Reshaping the State's Most Active Asset Class

Tuesday October 13 2026 @ 8:00 AM EDT

$120.00

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Speakers and Panels

Ed Easton

Founder, Chairman & CEO, The Easton Group

Malcolm Butters

Malcolm Butters is president and co-founder of Butters Construction & Development, Inc., a privately held real estate firm engaged in construction, development, investment, management and leasing of office, industrial, retail and hotel properties. Over the past 35 years, Butters Construction &Development has built over 52 million square feet of commercial space, valued at over $2 billion. Malcolm and his brother Mark, currently own commercial space in several cities in Florida. Notable projects include the Gulf Landing Logistic Center 2 Million square feet business park in Fort Myers, Florida, First Park Miami, a 25. Million square feet of industrial development in Miami, Miami Midway Park, a 50 acre/500,000 sf warehouse and 360 apartment units project, Hillsboro Technology Park, a 1,000,000 Square Foot Business Park in Deerfield Beach and Marriott Residence Inn, Coconut Creek, Florida. Over the past decade, Butters Construction & Development, Inc. has been listed as one of the most active commercial developers in Florida. In fact, just over the last five years, Butters has put together over 500 acres with a potential build out of 6 million square feet of industrial space, throughout the State of Florida, to become one of Florida's leading industrial developers. Butters Construction & Development has won the National Association of Office and Industrial Property's South Florida Chapter "Developer of the Year" award seven times and, recipient of NAIOP Lifetime Achievement Award. Malcolm Butters is considered one of the most innovative and creative developers in the state. He was one of the pioneers in elevating the architectural standards for Commercial buildings resulting in aesthetically pleasing, award winning facilities. Malcolm Butters is also active in a number of community and non-profit organizations. He's a board member for the Real Estate Advisory Board for the University of Miami, as well as founder of the "Malcolm & Catherine Butters Real Estate Scholarship" award for the Florida International University Hollo School of Real Estate. Butters earned a Master's Degree in Real Estate from Florida International University in 1983 and a Bachelor in Finance from the University of Miami in 1982.

Butters Construction & Development Inc.

President

Malcolm Butters

President, Butters Construction & Development Inc.

Mark Levy

Mark Levy is a seasoned real estate executive with extensive experience in logistics and industrial development. Following the October 2025 sale of Altman Logistics Properties, a company he founded and led as President, to FRP Holdings, Mark now serves as Chief Investment Officer at FRP. In this role, he oversees FRP Development Corp’s investment strategy, capital deployment, and portfolio performance across its logistics platform. He guides growth initiatives, optimizes returns, and ensures disciplined underwriting and execution throughout the investment lifecycle. Over his extensive real estate career spanning over 25 years in logistics development, Mr. Levy has deployed over $12 billion of capital including large scale, multi-phase logistics development projects across South Florida, New Jersey, Southeastern Pennsylvania and the Mid Atlantic. He is considered one of the most experienced and knowledgeable real estate developers in the logistics sector and has been recognized by numerous trade associations and publications. Before his tenure at FRP and Altman, he served as Chief Investment Officer at HRP Group, where he was instrumental in directing large-scale redevelopment projects nationwide and played a crucial role in establishing HRP's logistics platform, successfully overseeing the acquisition, development, and management of 20 million square feet of logistics space. Mr. Levy’s extensive experience encompasses senior leadership and capital deployment positions, including Head of Capital Deployment for the Eastern United States at Prologis, Vice Chairman at JLL, Senior Vice President for Florida at both Duke Realty and Opus, and Senior Investment Officer at Sumitomo Corporation of America. A native of Philadelphia, PA, Mr. Levy earned his degrees in Economics and English from Syracuse University. Among his many professional associations, he is a member of the Zell Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Governor of the NAIOP Research Foundation, and a leader of ULI’s Florida Industrial Development Council. Additionally, he is an advisor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a member of the United States Capital Historical Association, an adjunct instructor of Georgetown University’s Master’s in Real Estate Capstone Program, and serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County.

Florida Rock Holdings, Inc

CIO

Mark Levy

CIO, Florida Rock Holdings, Inc

Anthony Scavo

President & Managing Partner, Basis Industrial

Lauren Pace

Senior Director - South Florida Industrial Team, Colliers International

Ed Hess

Principal, RSP Architects

Arnie Capute

VP, Investments, Realterm

Magin Perez

Founder, INSOCO

Moderator

Kerri Barsh

Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Why You Can't Miss Bisnow's 2026 Florida Industrial & Manufacturing Conference

A great reset is underway for industrial development around Florida. Pipelines clearing in Jacksonville, supply tightening in Tampa Bay, and South Florida investors moving capital despite softening absorption. The deals getting done right now are being made by the people who know which markets are correcting and which still have legs. If you're trying to figure that out from the sidelines, you're already behind.

The demand story has also fundamentally changed. Reshoring and nearshoring, driven by tariff pressure, supply chain restructuring, and federal manufacturing incentives, are producing a new class of tenants that don't look anything like last cycle's e-commerce occupiers. Over 300 major manufacturing facilities have been announced nationally since 2020. Florida is competing for those deals right now. The developers, brokers, and capital sources in this room will be the ones who know how to position product for them and the ones who close.

The transactions are already signaling where the market is going: eight-figure portfolio trades from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Properties in South Florida, EastGroup breaking ground in Tampa at 96% occupancy, small-bay outperforming large-format on nearly every metric, and adaptive reuse, from the Tupperware HQ in Kissimmee to a 400,000 SF call center in Jacksonville, redefining what industrial development means in the state. Then there's the federal government's $38.3B warehouse acquisition program pulling product off the market across multiple Florida MSAs, a wildcard that is actively reshaping inventory, pricing, and deal flow whether you're ready for it or not. This event is where you get ready.

What You'll Learn / Why You Must Attend

Where Florida's industrial markets are in the cycle: which are in correction, which are in absorption, and which still have runway for new development
How the small-bay sector is outperforming large-format across the state and what capital and developers are targeting in that sub-sector
How reshoring, nearshoring, and tariff-driven supply chain restructuring are generating new manufacturing demand and what Florida needs to do to capture it
How adaptive reuse is becoming a front-line development strategy, with office parks, call centers, and legacy corporate campuses converting to industrial use across the state
What the federal government's warehouse acquisition program means for industrial inventory, pricing, and deal flow across Florida markets
How investors are underwriting Florida industrial today: cap rates, rent growth assumptions, financing conditions, and where institutional capital is placing its bets

For questions regarding content and speaking, please email our Event Producer, Elizabeth Herrgott, at elizabeth.herrgott@bisnow.com Want to get involved? Contact Jordan.Hinsch@bisnow.com to get information on sponsorship, pricing and availability at this event. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact ariel.fromm@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

Marriott West Palm Beach
1001 Okeechobee Blvd
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Ballroom: Ballroom D&E
Floor: Lobby Floor

Parking Information:

0-4 Hours: $12.00 – Self $20.00 - Valet
4-8 Hours: $16.00 – Self $24.00 - Valet

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Registration, Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	Capital, Transactions & the Reset: Navigating the Gap Between Investor Appetite and Market Fundamentals Florida's industrial investment market is repricing and where you put capital right now matters more than it has in years. This panel puts the investors, owners, and brokers actively closing deals across Miami-Dade, Broward, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and more in one room to break down which submarkets and product types still pencil, how the financing environment is shaping acquisitions and new starts, and where the smart money is moving next. You'll leave with a market-by-market read you can act on.
9:45 AM 10:00 AM	Networking Break
10:00 AM 10:45 AM	Beyond Logistics: What the Next Generation of Industrial Occupiers Needs and How Florida Can Win Them The industrial tenant mix is changing and the developers and investors who understand the new demand stack will have a first-mover advantage on the next generation of deals. This panel brings together the people building, leasing, and financing product for a tenant cohort that didn't exist at scale five years ago: reshoring manufacturers, advanced production users, food and beverage operators, and light industrial users driven to Florida by tariffs, supply chain restructuring, and the state's competitive cost environment. You'll leave knowing how to position product for these tenants, which Florida markets and corridors are winning their business, and what it actually takes to get a manufacturing deal done in 2026.
10:45 AM 11:15 AM	Post-Event Networking