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Debra Koehler

Debra Koehler

President & Founder

Sage Partners

Greg Minder

Greg Minder

President

InTown Group

Jack Kieley
Moderator

Jack Kieley

SVP & Sales Director, Mid-Atlantic & Southeast Region

Stewart Title

Debra Koehler

President & Founder

Sage Partners

Debra Koehler is the President of Sage Partners, LLC, a multi-family residential real

estate development company based in Tampa, Florida that she founded with Todd

Turner in 2007. Sage’s primary mission is to offer innovative approaches to the

development of workforce and affordable housing capitalizing on the broad experience

of its principals in these arenas. Debra is a 30 year veteran of real estate development

and has managed the development, construction, financing and management of over

10,000 affordable apartment homes located throughout Florida and over 2.5 million

square feet of office and hotel properties. In conjunction with her development activities,

Debra was responsible for raising over $500 million through the sale of affordable

housing tax credits, an additional $450 million through the sale of tax-exempt municipal

bonds and over $300 million in conventional project financing.

Ms. Koehler is a Board Member and former Chair of the Housing Finance Authority of

Hillsborough County, Board Member and former Chair of the Board of the National

Housing and Rehabilitation Association (NHRA) and is a member of CREW Tampa Bay.

She was appointed by Mayor Bob Buckhorn and serves on the City of Tampa Affordable

Housing Advisory Committee and also served on the Economic Competitiveness

Committee in 2011. She currently serves on the Florida Housing Coalition Advisory

Council and is a founding partner of Social Venture Partners Tampa Bay. Debra has

served on numerous Boards and was awarded the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 40

Under 40 award to honor her business, civil and personal contributions to the Tampa

Bay Area.

Sage Partners developments have received numerous awards from U.S. Department of

Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 1000 Friends of Florida, Bay Area Apartment

Association, CREW Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County Planning Commission, Tampa

Preservation, Tampa Downtown Partnership and Affordable Housing Finance.

Debra received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Virginia Tech, is a Certified

Public Accountant and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Florida.

Greg Minder

President

InTown Group

Greg Minder has been a leading participant in the revitalization of downtown Tampa and surrounding Tampa Bay communities since 2004. As founder and principal of the intowngroup, Greg is responsible for creating iconic multi-family, urban buildings framing the Tampa cityscape including Meridian, Skypoint, Element, AER and 500 HI. His mission is to generate sustainable urban growth by meeting the housing needs of a diverse downtown population. He extends that mission beyond his own business into serving the greater community at large. He is the Chairman of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, a coalition of business and community leaders working to create an 18 to 24-hour urban center where people can learn, live, work and play.

Jack Kieley

Moderator

Stewart Title

Kieley joined Stewart in 2008 as manager of the Commercial Services office in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2016, he was appointed as Commercial Services Mid-Atlantic & Southeast Regional Sales Director. A real estate and title professional with over 30 years of industry experience, Kieley oversees the sales and marketing of the Florida Commercial Services offices in Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Orlando, among other major metro areas. He previously held positions with First American, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title and Lawyers Title.

Kieley is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), and the Maryland Land Title Association.

With a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, Kieley is currently a member of the Maryland State Bar and the New Jersey State Bar.

The Future of Development in Tampa Bay

Phillip Smith

Phillip Smith

President

Framework Group

Todd Fultz

Todd Fultz

Managing Director

Plaza Construction Group

Larry Richey

Larry Richey

Managing Principal and Florida Market Leader

Cushman & Wakefield

Beck Daniel

Beck Daniel

Executive Vice President of Development

BTI Partners

Keith Wood
Moderator

Keith Wood

Business Development Officer

Stewart Title

Phillip Smith

President

Framework Group

Phillip Smith is based in Tampa, and leads Framework Group’s efforts and

coordinates the Company’s strategic plans for developing urban residential and

mixed-use developments throughout Florida. Since 2012, Framework has

developed over 1,600 apartment units and currently has an additional 1,800 units

under construction or in the development pipeline through 2018.

Mr. Smith is responsible for acquisition, approvals, obtaining project financing and

overseeing all construction and property management activities. Of keen interest

to him are those high barrier-to-entry development opportunities that present

complex challenges as they relate to political, regulatory, site design, or

environmental issues. Each Framework project starts with a design-centered

approach to development that focuses on product innovation and serving an unmet need in the marketplace.

Prior to forming Framework Group, Mr. Smith established the Florida multi-family office for Crosland, an 85-

year-old private development company based in Charlotte, NC.

Prior to joining Crosland, he was a Partner in a private venture based in Connecticut where he developed multi-

family residential projects throughout New England and South Carolina. Prior to that, he was a Senior

Development Manager at JPI, where he opened the Boston office for the Texas-based apartment developer.

There he developed over 3,500 apartments in some of the country’s most challenging regulatory and

construction environments in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

Prior to that, Mr. Smith was a senior manager at Toll Brothers, the largest publicly-traded luxury homebuilder in

the U.S., where he was responsible for site acquisition, approvals, and the management of the construction and

sales teams in Massachusetts.

Mr. Smith currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Westshore Alliance, and is Past-President of

Leadership Tampa Bay. He has lectured on real estate development and finance at Harvard’s Graduate School

of Design, Clemson University and the University of South Florida. Mr. Smith is a licensed Florida General

Contractor, a LEED-Accredited Professional and a licensed Florida Sales Associate.

Mr. Smith earned his Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude, from Auburn University, and Master in

Architecture from Harvard University.

Todd Fultz

Managing Director

Plaza Construction Group

Todd Fultz is the Managing Director of Plaza Construction Group’s new Central Florida Office. Fultz, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of construction experience on projects in the hospitality, corporate office, multi-family, retail, aviation, education and sports market sectors, is now leading Plaza’s expansion into important markets in the region, including Tampa and Orlando, as a Managing Director.

Prior to joining Plaza, Fultz served as Vice President of the Central Florida region for Manhattan Construction and as a project executive for DPR-Hardin Construction. He has been a part of building the Tampa skyline through such projects as The Westin Hotel on Rocky Point, Parkside of One Bayshore, Grand Central at Kennedy, Kforce Headquarters, LakePointe II at Tampa Bay Park, Jesuit’s Hyer Family Park Baseball Stadium, Raymond James Stadium, and several projects at Tampa International Airport.

Todd currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). At ABC, he has also served as the Marketing & Programs Committee Chair and helped start and co-chair the organization’s NexGen Construction Leadership Program. As a community-minded citizen, Todd is an alumnus of Leadership Tampa, Class of 2013, an active Board Member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay, a member of the Jesuit High School Foundation, Committee Chair of Cub Scout Pack 19, and a coach for Palma Ceia Little League.

A Tampa native, Fultz holds a bachelor of science from University of Florida’s M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction, Gainesville, Florida.

Larry Richey

Managing Principal and Florida Market Leader

Cushman & Wakefield

Larry D. Richey is Managing Principal and Florida Market Leader for Cushman & Wakefield’s Florida offices. In that position, he is responsible for the company’s offices in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. Before joining Cushman & Wakefield 36 years ago, Mr. Richey was a Certified Public Accountant with the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand in Atlanta. He is also an attorney and a member of the Georgia Bar. The Florida offices of Cushman & Wakefield consistently rank at the top of the competitive commercial real estate services industry in their respective markets. The company also manages and leases a forty seven million square foot office, industrial, and retail portfolio in the state.

Beck Daniel

Executive Vice President of Development

BTI Partners

Beck Daniel is Executive Vice President of Development of BTI Partners, a real estate investment and development firm in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Based in Tampa, Mr. Daniel is BTI's corporate representative for the west coast of Florida and is spearheading development of Westshore Marina District, a 52-acre mixed-use planned community on the West Shore’s waterfront. Within the district, Mr. Daniel is also leading Tampa's biggest condominium venture, Marina Pointe, a luxury three-tower project rising on Tampa Bay’s waterfront. Mr. Daniel is also responsible for identifying and pursuing new development and investment opportunities in the burgeoning areas of Tampa/St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Naples. Prior to joining BTI, Mr. Daniel was a Real Estate and Finance Analyst at Southstar Development Partners Inc., and Assistant Project Manager at The Related Group.

2018 & Beyond

Tampa CRE Market Outlook

Adam Harden

Adam Harden

Founding Principal

SoHo Capital

Larry Feldman

Larry Feldman

President & CEO

Feldman Equities

Zach Murphy

Zach Murphy

Co-Founder

Pender Capital

Punit Shah

Punit Shah

CEO

Liberty Group

Ryan Deneen
Moderator

Ryan Deneen

Partner, Tax Services

Cherry Bekeart LLP

Adam Harden

Founding Principal

SoHo Capital

Adam is a founding principal of SoHo Capital, a Tampa-based firm that specializes in the acquisition and development of mixed-use, residential, retail, office and industrial properties. SoHo Capital is a boutique private equity and development company engaged in acquisition, master planning, entitlement, horizontal development, public private partnerships, governmental development agreements, brownfield remediation, wetland mitigation, greenbelt consulting and other aspects of the development process. Over the past 12 years, SoHo Capital has assembled key sites and entitled over 600,000 square feet of commercial/industrial projects, 1million square feet of office space, 500,000 square feet of retail, and 4,000 residential units. SoHo Capital’s portfolio of projects includes the Heights in Tampa’s urban core, a 50-acre, 2.2 million-square-foot urban mixed use development on the Hillsborough River. Adam is a certified general contractor (FL# 1512364), and spent the early part of his career as a homebuilding executive.

Larry Feldman

President & CEO

Feldman Equities

Mr. Feldman has been the president and CEO of Feldman Equities since

1990. From 1997 until 1999, he was the founder of, and served as the

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Tower Realty Trust, a

publicly traded REIT (New York Stock Exchange symbol: "TOW").

From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Feldman served as Chairman of Feldman Mall

Properties, Inc. a publicly traded REIT. He is also the founder and former

Chairman of the Midtown West Association of New York City. Mr. Feldman

was formerly a member of the Board of East Woods School in Oyster Bay NY. He graduated

from Windham College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. Mr. Feldman has

lectured at the graduate schools of N.Y.U. and Columbia University on commercial real estate

development.

Mr. Feldman has been directly responsible for the management, development or acquisition of

over 11 million square feet of real estate with an aggregate value of over $3 billion dollars during

a career spanning over 30 years in the commercial real estate business. Mr. Feldman's primary

focus over his career has been on the acquisition and redevelopment of turnaround real estate.

Zach Murphy

Co-Founder

Pender Capital

Zach is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Pender Capital. Zach co-founded Pender in 2015 and brings over 16 years of experience in both commercial real estate finance and capital markets expertise. Zach oversees the firm’s Investment and Research program which includes deal sourcing, research, and structuring and is a member of the Investment and Research Committee and the Management Committee. Prior to Pender, Zach served as Managing Director/ Senior Vice President for Liberty SBF, a commercial finance company based in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for establishing Liberty’s Western Regional HQ in Los Angeles and directed West Coast originations and operations. Zach personally originated over $60 million of commercial loans during the first year of operations on the West Coast. In 2008, Zach joined Silver Point Capital, LP in New York, a Goldman Sachs partner fund, where he was responsible for commercial real estate loan originations and insurance-linked securities trading. During his tenure at Silver Point, Zach traded more than $500 million in distressed commercial real estate debt, insurance-linked securities, and assets in the capital markets. From 2004 to 2008, Zach served as Senior Vice President/Division Director of Velocity Commercial Capital where he was the company’s highest grossing originator in e

Punit Shah

CEO

Liberty Group

As the Chief Executive of Liberty Group, Mr. Shah maintains overall executive control over the investment and management divisions of the company, and serves as the General Partner of Liberty Hospitality Fund I & II. Mr. Shah is an alumnus of Boston University where he now serves on the Board of Directors and has established the Punit & Carla Shah Family scholarship. Mr. Shah attended the Harvard University Economics Honors program, and Political Science and Real Estate Development programs at Cornell University and Emory University.

Mr. Shah is a member of YPO, and has served on the Global Board of the Intercontinental Hotels Group Owner's Association. His honors include receiving the Florida's Governor's Enterprise award, Florida Business Review “Under 40” and Entrepreneur of the Year awards, named as 25 People to Watch in Florida, and serving as the 2017 Boston University School of Hospitality commencement speaker.

In 2017, Mr. Shah, as part of an investment group led by Derek Jeter, purchased the Miami Marlins Major League Baseball team, and is an official Owner of the team.

Ryan Deneen

Moderator

Cherry Bekeart LLP

A Certified Public Accountant and Partner with Cherry

Bekaert, Ryan provides business and tax guidance that

yields significant tax savings to clients of various sizes

and industry sectors such as technology and health & life

sciences, transportation, manufacturing and distribution,

and real estate & construction. His guidance emphasizes

strong tax planning and tax compliance management,

tax vendor supervision, audit, litigation and settlement

oversight and lobbying capabilities.

As a member of the Firm’s Tax practice, Ryan advises

clients on implementing and managing federal,

international, and state tax planning structures. Further,

he offers a detailed concentration on financial statement

reporting (ASC 740) and business operations, and the

effects of the restructuring process. Ryan is also able to

provide management with solutions to accounting systems,

payroll, human resources, legal, regulatory, servicing,

marketing, distribution, sales and related operational issues.

Ryan once served as the director of corporate taxes for

a Fortune 500 company. In that role, he was responsible

for the company’s tax structuring of all mergers and

acquisitions, tax due diligence, financial statement

reporting, tax compliance, and audit and litigation

management. Ryan also served for 17 years at a Big Four

firm, seven of those as a partner.

Summary

1) What impact will recent tax reform and the increasingly pro-business climate of Florida have on Tampa and the W. Florida CRE Markets?

2) With a 4.0% unemployment rate and 6.3% YoY growth from ‘15 to ‘16, and titans like Jeff Vinik announcing $3B developments, how are developers and investors maximizing returns and ensuring sustainable growth for the years to come?

3) How will escalating construction and labor costs affect the Tampa Bay CRE market?

4) What projects coming online will re-define Tampa’s commercial real estate market?

5) What needs to be done from an infrastructure perspective to ensure the continued growth of Tampa?

Venue

The Westin Tampa Waterside
725 South Harbour Island Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33602

Ballroom: Oasis Ballroom


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Agenda

Time Activity
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
Breakfast & Networking
12:30 PM
1:15 PM
Tampa Construction & Development
1:15 PM
2:00 PM
2018 & Beyond - What’s in store for the CRE Market?
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
Post-Game Schmooze

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