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Navigating the Gap Between Investor Appetite and Market Fundamentals
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Ed Easton
Founder, Chairman & CEO
The Easton Group
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Mark Levy
CIO
Florida Rock Holdings, Inc
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Anthony Scavo
CEO & Managing Partner
Basis Industrial
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Arnie Capute
VP, Investments
Realterm
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Magin Perez
Founder
INSOCO
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Kerri Barsh
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
What the Next Generation of Industrial Occupiers Needs and How Florida Can Win Them
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Matt Buehler
VP of Commercial Real Estate
Kitson & Partners
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Christopher Metzger
Vice Chairman
Cushman & Wakefield
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David Oxios
VP
NAI Miami | Fort Lauderdale
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Jordan Cater
Director
MLCO Construction
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Lauren Pace
Senior Director - South Florida Industrial Team
Colliers
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
0-4 Hours: $12.00 – Self $20.00 - Valet
4-8 Hours: $16.00 – Self $24.00 - Valet
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
9:45 AM
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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. |
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9:45 AM
10:00 AM
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Networking Break
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10:00 AM
10:45 AM
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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. |
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10:45 AM
11:15 AM
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Post-Event Networking
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