The Current State and Future of LA Office

Los Angeles | Air Date: October 8 | 11:30 AM PDT

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Follow Clare on Instagram Clare De Briere is a native Angeleno and has spent her career creating special places for the citizens and visitors of Los Angeles. Clare joined The Ratkovich Company as a summer intern in 1991 after graduating from UCLA and worked her way through property management, leasing, construction, financing and development management while earning her graduate degree at USC's prestigious Lusk Center for Real Estate. In her career with the company she has overseen the acquisition, entitlement, planning, development and/or disposition of millions of square feet from The Wiltern Theatre, 5900 Wilshire, 800 Wilshire, The Alhambra, The Hercules Campus in Playa Vista and, most recently, The Bloc in downtown Los Angeles. Clare retired from the Company after 26 years, the last decade of which she spent as its Chief Operating Office and Executive Vice President. She remains affiliated with the Company through its Advisory Board. Clare and her husband, Chef Christopher Barnett, have started a new company, C+C Ventures, a Los Angeles based experience company to develop places that inspire creativity, curiosity and delight whether through a wonderful neighborhood restaurant or a fantastic renovated work or living space. Clare is an active member of the Urban Land Institute serving on the National Advisory Committee for Building Healthy Places and Building Healthy Corridors, and on the Los Angeles District Council's Executive Committee and Advisory Board. She has served on a ULI Advisory Panel in the City of Denver and on a local Technical Assistance Panel for the Huntington Hospital and Cal Poly Pomona. She has been named on the Los Angeles Business Journal's Women Making a Difference list and has been on the Real Estate - Southern California's Women of Influence list every year since 2003. Clare is also on the Advisory Board of the UCLA History Department; and served on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Los Angeles Conservancy.

Skanska

Executive Vice President, Regional Manager

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Clare DeBriere

Executive Vice President, Regional Manager, Skanska

Follow Clare on Instagram Clare De Briere is a native Angeleno and has spent her career creating special places for the citizens and visitors of Los Angeles. Clare joined The Rat...

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Jeff Grasso (recently acquired US Bank Tower For $430 Million!)

Head of Acquisitions, Silverstein Properties

Jeff is a Senior Vice President & Head of Acquisitions at Silverstein Properties where he also serves as a member of the firm’s investment committee. He is responsible for creatin...

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James Malone

James is an Executive Vice President located in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Los Angeles corporate office, where he focuses on tenant and landlord representation services in the Los Angeles area. James advises clients on a full range of real estate services including portfolio and leasing strategy, space acquisition, disposition and occupancy analysis, and cost savings strategies. James has a dynamic professional background that includes 25 years of experience in real estate brokerage leadership, agency leasing, tenant representation, corporate services, real estate development, and law. This breadth of experience allows James to provide clients with strategies that offer cost savings and value for a broad range of transactions such as leases, building and land acquisitions, and property dispositions. James returned to JLL after leading seven brokerage offices in the Los Angeles region for a global real estate services firm overseeing 90 real estate professionals James was responsible for business planning and client pursuit with individual brokers and brokerage teams, recruiting and training brokers, enhancing the office culture, and implementing company initiatives. Previously, he was the Vice President of Leasing for Brookfield Properties’ Downtown LA office portfolio, which consisted of 8.5 million square feet of Class A office buildings. At Brookfield, James developed and successfully implemented leasing strategies and marketing campaigns for Trophy assets including community, tenant and broker engagement events, building tours and presentations, and negotiating leases from initial proposal through execution. He began his real estate career with Catellus Development Corporation and was responsible for the marketing and leasing of Union Station in Los Angeles and the Mission Bay project in San Francisco. James is also a lawyer having practiced commercial litigation with Haight, Brown & Bonesteel.

JLL

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James Malone

EVP, JLL

James is an Executive Vice President located in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Los Angeles corporate office, where he focuses on tenant and landlord representation services in the Los Angele...

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Ryan Tucker

Director, Ocean West Capital Partners

Ryan Tucker is a Director with Ocean West Capital Partners and oversees Ocean West’s office investment activities, with an emphasis on core-plus, value-add and opportunistic stra...

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Lois Wellwood

Director & Global Interiors Practice Leader, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Lois is a champion of design and an accomplished leader in innovative workplace strategies and transformational interior architectural experiences. In her role as Director and Glob...

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Stephanie Smith (EMCEE)

Director, West Coast, Bisnow Media

Brian Kang (Moderator)

Partner, Greenberg Glusker LLP

Webinar Summary

How has the pandemic affected office valuations?
Where are developers and investors finding great deals in light of the market softening?
Where is smart money looking for deals?
Right now, are tenants expanding or contracting due to the pandemic? And how is that impacting landlord/tenant relations?
What is the outlook for the office market in Q4 2020 and Q1 2021?

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The Current State and Future of LA Office

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Featured Presenters

Clare DeBriere

Executive Vice President, Regional Manager, Skanska

Jeff Grasso (recently acquired US Bank Tower For $430 Million!)

Head of Acquisitions, Silverstein Properties

James Malone

EVP, JLL

Ryan Tucker

Director, Ocean West Capital Partners

Lois Wellwood

Director & Global Interiors Practice Leader, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Stephanie Smith (EMCEE)

Director, West Coast, Bisnow Media

Brian Kang (Moderator)

Partner, Greenberg Glusker LLP

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