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Operating Mixed-Use as a Living Ecosystem

How to attract the right audience, drive engagement, and turn experience into measurable value

Paul Chase

Paul Chase

President, U.S. Lifestyle Property Management

JLL

Lela Cirjakovic

Lela Cirjakovic

Managing Director, Multifamily Property Management

JLL

Sean McNamara

Sean McNamara

Managing Director, Mixed-use Property Management

JLL

Angela Sweeney

Angela Sweeney

EVP, Marketing Director, Lifestyle

JLL

James Cook
Moderator

James Cook

Senior Director, Americas Retail Research

JLL

Lela Cirjakovic

Managing Director, Multifamily Property Management

JLL

Lela Cirjakovic joined JLL to lead the firm’s national multi housing property management platform in America. Working with national and regional leadership, Lela will focus on building and growing client relationships across the platform.

Lela has nearly 30 years of experience in real estate asset management. Prior to JLL, Lela served as executive vice president of operations at Waterton, a vertically integrated real estate investment firm. In this role, she had direct oversight of Waterton’s Portfolio of multifamily properties and was responsible for the strategic direction of the management platform, enhancing the portfolio’s financial performance and the resident experience. Lela was a voting member of Waterton’s leadership and investment committees while managing operations, sales, marketing and technology.

Prior to joining Waterton, she spent 12 years at CAMCO, Inc., a Chicago multifamily property management company where she served as member of the Senior Executive Committee and as regional property manager overseeing the company’s Midwest operations. Previously, Lela was a regional property manager for Midland Property Management where she was responsible for 8 properties in 4 states. Ms. Cirjakovic’s career began at the Illinois Housing Development Authority where she was an asset manager.

Sean McNamara

Managing Director, Mixed-use Property Management

JLL

Sean leads the JLL mixed-use property management service line, where he coalesces the firm’s extensive real estate service offerings into a fully integrated, single-point service delivery model for clients. He develops highly bespoke strategies to optimize and streamline operations across an entire development, identify revenue generation opportunities unique to mixed-use, and create one-of-a-kind destinations with local, regional and national cachet for our clients’ projects.

Sean recently served as the client relationship manager for several of the firm’s high-net-worth, family office investor clients. Previously, he held the position of senior general manager for the Transamerica Pyramid Center during the $120 million transformational project repositioning, where he deployed over $30 million of capital over a two-year period. Before this, he served as regional manager for JLL Florida Property Management, where he led over 400 management employees. Before joining JLL, Sean served as real estate advisor and asset manager for the Mann Family Portfolio which consisted of

14.2 million square feet of retail and office, 327 acres of development land, and 4,000 commercial parking spaces.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in operations research from Georgia State University. He holds Florida Broker’s License and several respected industry designations including, CCIM, CPM, RPA, and FMA.

James Cook

Moderator

JLL

Based in Indianapolis, IN, James is the Senior Director of Americas Retail Research. He oversees the production of national retail research and serves as the voice of retail research in the region. He speaks regularly at events, with clients and the media about how retail real estate will change with tomorrow's economy.

James also hosts the Where We Buy podcast, a show about retail and real estate. Where We Buy was awarded a Gold MAXI award from the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). The show was listed by FeedSpot as one of the Best Retail Podcasts You Must Follow in 2022. James also hosts the live video show Everything We Know About Retail.

Experience:

Before joining JLL, James was the National Director of Analytics at Xceligent, a national commercial property research firm. In that role, he recruited and managed a new Analytics department, a national team of regional analysts tasked with producing quarterly market reports and thought leadership pieces.

James has worked in the commercial real estate industry since 1999, beginning as a Phoenix market research analyst with Insignia/ESG. He has served as U.S. Director of Research at Colliers International, where he oversaw the commercial property research services. Before that, he built the Colliers national GIS platform as the GIS Manager for the U.S. region.

Education and affiliations:

James received a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. James is an active participant in the International Council of Shopping Centers' North American Research Task Force. He was the chair of the 2015 Research Connections Conference. He has served on multiple NAIOP and ULI committees.

Outside interests:

James enjoys morning runs through the Indiana countryside.

Why Attend "How a Hospitality Mindset Drives Mixed-Use Asset Performance"

Today's mixed-use developments are designed to replicate the energy of urban environments, but they must be intentionally programmed, marketed, and operated to attract and retain the right audience.
 

Bisnow's How a Hospitality Mindset Drives Mixed-Use Asset Performance Webinar will feature leaders across mixed-use, lifestyle retail, multifamily, and research to break down how today's top-performing assets are being managed as fully integrated ecosystems instead of siloed components.
 

At the core of this conversation is a simple but critical shift: value isn't created by stacking uses, it's created when those uses are aligned. By leveraging data and real-time customer intelligence, panelists will explore how retail, residential, and marketing & placemaking experience, when working together, drive measurable investment outcomes, from longer dwell times and higher retention to increased spend and stronger NOI.
 

This discussion will highlight how integrated management execution and proven hospitality standards—applied consistently across marketing, leasing, and operations—create the alignment that eliminates silos, strengthens retention, and protects NOI.
 

The result: properties that perform with certainty, delivering stronger retention, predictable value, and investment outcomes you can rely on.
 

What Attendees Will Walk Away With:
 

  • Why mixed-use fails in silos and how integrated ecosystems outperform -Understand how aligning retail, residential, and experience strategies drives stronger financial outcomes.
     

  • How a hospitality mindset directly impacts NOI - Learn how retention, dwell time, and customer satisfaction translate into measurable value for owners.
     

  • What data actually matters and how to use it - From foot traffic to sentiment tracking, discover how top operators are using real-time data to inform leasing, programming, and capital decisions.
     

  • The evolution of “lifestyle” and why it’s no longer about product but audience - How understanding your most valuable customer shapes everything from tenant mix to activation strategy.
     

  • How to create demand in non-organic environments - What it takes to drive traffic, engagement and loyalty in ground-up and suburban mixed-use developments.
     

  • One actionable shift to implement immediately - A tangible way to move from “managing space” to creating experience regardless of asset type.

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.

Agenda

Time Activity
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
Operating Mixed-Use as a Living Ecosystem

This panel brings together experts across lifestyle retail, multifamily, mixed-use development and experience strategy to unpack how integrated operations, technology and placemaking are transforming properties into destinations. Panelists will explore how aligning these elements creates a cohesive ecosystem that drives traffic, builds community, and unlocks long-term value for ownership.