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New Jersey Industrial & Logistics

Name: New Jersey Industrial & Logistics
Start: 2022-02-10T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-02-10T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Liberty House

Finding Value, Designing Warehouses for NJ's Emerging Trends

Event Ended On: Thursday February 10 2022

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Speakers and Panels

Accessing & Deploying Capital

Funds & Capital Stack Strategies

Bill Bumber

Managing Director, Industrial Development, Advance Realty Investors

Joel Bergstein

Joel Bergstein is the President of Lincoln Equities Group (LEG), one of the Northeast's leading full-service real estate companies. Bergstein joined the company more than 32 years ago, spearheading the organization’s acquisition and development initiatives. He currently leads the firm’s large scale development platform, orchestrating major residential and industrial land development projects in the New York / New Jersey metro area. Bergstein developed LEG’s current operating partner platform, leveraging domestic and international opportunities with private equity and pension funds. Bergstein is a founding partner and active participant in LEG’s $700M European property investment platform. Some of his standout development projects include Halletts Point in Astoria, NY, where LEG transformed a seven acre waterfront site into 2,400 residential apartment units; 5 Giralda in Madison, NJ, a 431,000 square-foot property, that was modernized to become Allergan’s U.S. headquarters; and in early 2018, LEG closed on a 152 acre waterfront site in Bayonne, NJ, where 1.4M square-feet of e-commerce logistics warehousing will be developed to bolster trade with the Port of New York and New Jersey. Lincoln has formed a partnership with Bruce Eichner’s Continuum Company to develop a mixed-income residential complex in Crown Heights, NY. It will be a 50/50 market and workforce development project to bring hundreds of needed housing units for middle and working class families in New York City. Bergstein is also leading the development and approval process for 1,500 new residential units in Jersey City including the construction of a light rail station. Bergstein serves on numerous real estate advisory boards and is a speaker and frequent commentator in real estate trade and business media in addition to his philanthropic work.

Lincoln Equities Group

President

Joel Bergstein

President, Lincoln Equities Group

Jordan W. Avanzato

Senior Director, Capital Markets, JLL Capital Markets

Mitchell Berkey

Mitchell Berkey concentrates on all aspects of real estate ventures and transactions, including acquisitions, sales, financing, development, leasing, management, loan workouts, ownership restructuring and resolution of intra-ownership disputes. His extensive background spans all asset types, including office, retail, industrial, hospitality and mixed-use properties in markets across the United States. With three decades of experience on all sides of the transaction table, Mitch brings a business- oriented approach to his legal practice. As an attorney, he has advised institutional and entrepreneurial real estate owners, managers, lenders, corporate real estate users and foreign governments. As an asset manager, he was responsible for the management of a national portfolio of office, retail, industrial and residential properties. Mitch's experience includes a wide range of complex transactions involving both the public and private sectors. Among the more unique projects in which Mitch played a direct role are the following:  American Dream | Meadowlands™, projected to be one of the world's largest retail, entertainment and TM tourism centers  E Walk, a New York Times Square redevelopment project  The conversion of a residential condominium to an extended stay hotel  The restructuring of a national syndication firm  The acquisition, financing and remediation of Brownfield properties  The master leasing of building facades for signage, billboard and telecommunications use  The leasing and construction of foreign missions for sovereign nations  The acquisition and sale of parking facilities In December 2008, New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine appointed Mitch to the New Jersey Real Estate Advisory Board, which was created to help establish strategies to encourage economic growth in the state of New Jersey. Mitch chaired the Advisory Board's Environmental Subcommittee. Mitch has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Real Estate Development in the Master of Science in Real Estate Development program at Columbia University, and speaks often on real estate industry matters. Mitch received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was editor-in chief of the Fordham Urban Law Journal.

CSG Law

Chair, Real Estate, Development & Land Use Group

Moderator

Mitchell Berkey

Chair, Real Estate, Development & Land Use Group, CSG Law

Race for Space: Navigating Development Strategies

Impact of Low Cap Rates in Prime Northern Jersey Locations

Ankit Bhatt

Managing Director, Oxford Properties

Robert Borny

Partner, Dermody Properties

Moderator

Dave Fleming

Director, Marathon Engineering & Environmental Services

Overcoming Supply Chain Issues: Designing the Future Warehouse

Tenant Demands for New Facilities

Brian Banaszynski

Brian leads the Northeastern US Industrial development business for Transwestern Development. In this role he has senior responsibility over sourcing and executing institutional industrial projects in the Northeast with a primary emphasis on New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. He identifies target investment opportunities in these critical submarkets on behalf of the firm and forms the development team for each project. He has responsibility for the underwriting, due diligence, entitlements, construction, leasing and disposition for each development. He interacts with the Company’s Houston headquarters to determine and form the appropriate capital structure as well as secure institutional partners for each project. Transwestern Development Company develops office, industrial, multifamily, mixed use and healthcare projects throughout the United States. The Logistics Group develops both speculative and build-to-suit industrial projects, primarily in major distribution markets. Expertise includes intermodal logistics, e-commerce, port strategy, sustainability and municipal incentives. The Company has completed more than 14 million square feet of projects throughout the country during the last four years, and currently has over 4 million under development including both large-scale bulk distribution and infill projects. Execution structures include conventional equity joint ventures, forward take-outs and owner-financed fee projects. As part of the Transwestern Enterprise, the Company contains in-house expertise in equity and debt placement, construction, property management, and leasing in both its Houston headquarters and 35 U.S. offices. Brian’s previous experience includes President and Board Member of Heller Industrial Parks, one of the country’s largest private industrial developers, as well as senior management roles with Advance Realty Group, Alfieri, Mack-Cali and Sanzari Enterprises. He began his commercial real estate career as a broker at Cushman & Wakefield. Brian has served on multiple industry and charity boards. He is a member of NAIOP, IOREBA, and a frequently requested speaker at conferences. Brian received his BBA and MBA from the University of Wisconsin. He is a licensed New Jersey real estate broker.

Transwestern Development

Regional Partner, Logistics Group

Brian Banaszynski

Regional Partner, Logistics Group, Transwestern Development

Jay Biggins

Executive Managing Director, Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Company

Shaun Keegan

CEO, Solar Landscape

Josh Kuskin

Senior Project Manager, The Rockefeller Group

Marc Lebovitz

President, Romark Logistics

Moderator

Autumn Harris

Marketing Manager, PREMIER Design + Build Group

Venue

Liberty House
76 Audrey Zapp Drive, Liberty State Park
New Jersey 07305

Ballroom: Grand Ballroom - 2nd floor

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Parking right outside the venue. Parking tickets will be validated.

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Pre-Event Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	Investing in Industrial: Deploying Capital 1. What type of capital are investor and developers targeting for New Jersey? 2. What is the impact of low cap rates on the ease of deploying capital?
9:45 AM 10:30 AM	Race For Space: Navigating Development Strategies 1. With limited land available, which areas of New Jersey will be in the next wave of industrial development? 2. What aggressive steps are owners and investors taking to ensure they win deals?
10:30 AM 11:15 AM	Overcoming Supply Chain Issues: Designing the Future Warehouse 1. What creative strategies are being implemented to overcome supply chain issues? 2. Which design elements are leading the way to make facilities for efficient?
11:15 AM 11:30 AM	Post-Event Networking

Why This Matters

What You'll Learn:

Deals continue to get done in New Jersey. What benefits do New Jersey's top markets provide to owners and developers compared to other adjacent clusters in New York and Philly?
How are supply chain issues and speed to market hurdles, shaping decisions of industrial's top players?
How are design requirements and preferences evolving for the enduser? How can developers and contractors get ahead of these changes, such as ceiling heights, parking requirements, etc.
With low cap rates and a competitive markets, what types of funds and capital stacks are being utilizing to get deals done quicker?
How has the rise of the industrial asset class during the last two years impacted an already hot New Jersey industrial market? Has investor confidence decreased or increased and how aggressive is capital being deployed?

How you'll do more business:

Enhance your business by understanding the role New Jersey plays in the booming industrial market and how investor and development activity is driving the need for industrial supply. By understanding the evolution of the warehouse and what the enduser is expecting not just in their facilities for 2022, but also to ensure long term leases and stability.

Who attends:

Investors, owners, developers, lenders, industrial end users, brokers, public sector companies, architects, contractors, engineers, property managers and you!

Why should you attend:

Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us.

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