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Malcolm Butters

Malcolm Butters

Principal

Butters

Magin Perez

Magin Perez

Founder

INSOCO

Ed Easton

Ed Easton

Founder, Chairman & CEO

The Easton Group

Mark Levy

Mark Levy

CIO

Florida Rock Holdings, Inc

Lauren Pace

Lauren Pace

Senior Director - South Florida Industrial Team

Colliers

Anthony Scavo

Anthony Scavo

President & Managing Partner

Basis Industrial

Ed Hess

Ed Hess

Principal

RSP Architects

Arnie Capute

Arnie Capute

VP, Investments

Realterm

Kerri Barsh
Moderator

Kerri Barsh

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Malcolm Butters

Principal

Butters

Malcolm has been active in South Florida Real Estate for over 25 years. He has a Masters Degree in Real Estate from Florida International University, and has previously worked in the real estate investment division of Travelers Insurance.

Magin Perez

Founder

INSOCO

Magin Perez is the Founder and Principal of INSOCO, a South Florida-based design-build firm specializing in industrial facilities, manufacturing plants, cold storage, food processing, and aviation MRO projects. A mechanical engineer by training, Magin began his career in automotive engineering with Fiat Chrysler and later led major manufacturing capital projects before founding INSOCO.

Today, he helps manufacturers, developers, and investors transform existing industrial assets into high-performing production facilities by combining engineering, construction, and operational expertise under one roof. His work focuses on bridging the gap between industrial real estate and manufacturing operations, helping clients evaluate facilities not just as buildings, but as production environments.

Magin is an active advocate for Florida’s manufacturing sector and regularly collaborates with industry organizations to promote industrial growth, reshoring, and advanced manufacturing across the state.

Ed Easton

Founder, Chairman & CEO

The Easton Group

Mr. Easton is the Chairman of The Easton Group, the real estate brokerage, investment, management and development firm he founded in Miami in 1974. Educated at the University of Miami, Mr. Easton received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in1966, and his MBA in 1976, majoring in Finance with a minor in Accounting.

Mark Levy

CIO

Florida Rock Holdings, Inc

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.

Anthony Scavo

President & Managing Partner

Basis Industrial

Anthony Scavo joined Basis in August 2021, he has over 29 years of real estate development &

construcion experience. He serves as Basis’s Chief Operating Officer and President. Anthony

runs day to day operations of all Basis’s many ventures and companies.

Anthony graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business. Anthony will in Stern started his career

at the LeFrak Organization based in NYC where he spent 25+ years. At LeFrak he worked on

and/or oversaw all Construction & Development activities in the NYC metro area. In his various

roles at LeFrak, he was involved in the planning, development and construction of over 3000+

rental apartment units, 1000+ hotel rooms, 500+ condo units, 5,000,000+ square feet of office

space and numerous single story big box retail and mixed-use buildings for the LeFrak family

and related companies.

Anthony then moved to Red Apple Group where he spent over 2 years, where he oversaw the

Preconstruction of the tallest mixed-use building on the West Coast of Florida in the Tampa/St.

Pete area. He also served as head of facilities and technical services for all the multiple business

units under the Red Apple Group umbrella.

Ed Hess

Principal

RSP Architects

A Texas transplant with a knack for managing complex projects, Ed serves as RSP’s COO and Industrial Market Leader. He and his team have designed over 175 MSF of space covering general warehousing and distribution, specialized temperature-controlled facilities, food processing, and highly automated fulfillment centers. Ed’s notable expertise in supply chain processes, automation and material handling systems, along with his commitment to resiliency, have made him a sought-after expert with major brands like Amazon, Walmart, Nestle and Whole Foods Market.

Arnie Capute

VP, Investments

Realterm

Mr. Capute is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and closing acquisition opportunities for

Realterm in the Southeastern region of the United States.  Mr. Capute holds a BA from Williams

College.

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

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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

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