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Portland State of the Market

Name: Portland State of the Market
Start: 2024-09-12T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-12T11:00:00-07:00
Location: Hyatt Regency Portland

Creating a Live and Work Destination, Downtown Activations, Suburban Developments and Strategies in Driving Projects to Completion

Event Ended On: Thursday September 12 2024

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Speakers and Panels

Living and Working in Portland

Exploring Supply and Demand Dynamics, Downtown Activations, Suburban Developments, and Tenant Demands and Attraction Strategies

Travis Drilling

SVP, Market Leader, Lincoln Property Company

Stefanie Kondor

SVP, Development, Related Northwest

Gus Baum

Director of Development, Security Properties

Moderator

Dana Krawczuk

Partner, Stoel Rives

Portland Development Outlook: Driving Projects to Completion

From Financing and Construction Trends to Design Innovations and Site Selection, How Are Portland's CRE Leaders Driving Projects to Completion?

Todd Gooding

President & CIO, ScanlanKemperBard Companies

Evan Bernstein

Recognized as one of the most influential commercial real estate executives in the country by both the Portland and National Business Journals, Evan brings the juice, passion and heart to the projects and people he works with every day. He is a Partner at Pacific NW Properties, a Beaverton-based commercial real estate development, investment and property management firm, where he oversees all acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development site selection, and marketing, amongst other focus areas. Beyond his day-to-day responsibilities, Evan volunteers his time with numerous charitable organizations and sits on several boards, including NAIOP, Westside Economic Alliance and Revitalize Portland Coalition. He is currently the immediate Past President of NAIOP Oregon, the largest and most influential commercial real estate development organization in the USA. Under Evan’s leadership as President in 2022, NAIOP Oregon was honored with the two biggest awards in North America: “Chapter of the Year,” as well as “National President of the Year.” Prior to his transition to the ownership side of the business, Evan was an accomplished industrial broker who earned the SIOR “Industrial Deal of the Year” award in both 2008 and 2010, as well as the prestigious Commercial Association of Brokers (CAB) “Bill Naito Award” in 2012, presented to the broker in Portland/SW Washington who closed the most complex transaction of the year. In 2017, Evan was honored with Portland Business Journal’s coveted “Forty Under 40” top business executives honor, which is based on career, influence, leadership, and community involvement. In 2023, Evan was named “Executive of the Year” by the Portland Business Journal. A former radio show host who once tried to make Beyonce his fiancé with an on air proposal (she said no by the way), Evan doesn’t mind taking big risks … which has helped with PNWP’s speculative development and portfolio growth through strategic acquisitions. He lives in Portland with his beautiful wife and kids.

Pacific NW Properties

Partner

Evan Bernstein

Partner, Pacific NW Properties

Bashar Wali

“My People used to say, when a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he's come from, where he's headed. That way, he'll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then you'll be such good friends, you don't care.” Bashar Wali is a founder, a father, and a hotel fanatic. He’s a pragmatist—hungry to experience life not as it is packaged and sold, but as it is. His vested interest in hospitality, culture, and design, is cut with curiosity of what’s possible, beyond the status quo. Bashar is always looking for that spark—that perfect symmetry of an idea and its physical manifestation—to make human experiences as we know them, better. He’s the consummate Host of the Soirée—ever in pursuit of a shared humanity among friends, colleagues, and total strangers. This is perhaps his greatest gift: bringing together a group that’s more inspiring than the sum of its parts. As founder and CEO of This Assembly and Practice Hospitality, Bashar draws upon expertise honed over a 30-year career in hospitality. An expert in the lifestyle space, Bashar is known for pushing limits in his philosopher-meets-hotelier kind of way. Whether helming the TEDx stage, hosting a Global YPO event, or collaborating on Clubhouse, Bashar’s message is unwavering: service is what you deliver, hospitality is how you make people feel. Bashar has done every job in a hotel—from frying an egg to negotiating a deal—working for Starwood Hotels before leading acquisitions and development globally at Grand Heritage Hotels. Prior to launching This Assembly and Practice Hospitality, Bashar served as President/CEO of Provenance Hotels, where he remains a partner, for 15 years, growing the company from five to 15 hotels, 1,500 team members, and expanding the collection from the Pacific Northwest to an award-winning national brand, with annual revenue in excess of $150 million. When Bashar isn’t traveling to 50+ countries and 45+ states, he’s home in Portland, Oregon with his wife and kids, dreaming up the hotels of tomorrow.

Practice Hospitality

Founder & CEO

Bashar Wali

Founder & CEO, Practice Hospitality

Trevor Wyckoff

SVP, Skanska

Michael Kaplan

VP & COO, Cambridge CM

Michael Mathews

Michael Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Assemblage Works, Inc. (AWI), a multi-disciplinary, vertically integrated architecture, construction management and development company that operates throughout the nation. We specialize in the creation, management and execution of sustainable urban infill multi-family, hospitality and commercial projects across the western United States. Mathews’ expertise as a senior development, design and construction executive spans all facets of complex and large-scale ($500MM+) real estate projects for a variety of prominent design, development and construction organizations nationwide, including executive roles with KB Urban, Forest City and Davis Reed Construction, among others. In these roles, he has delivered over 6,000 units to the markets in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Southern California, Texas, Seattle and Denver metropolitan areas. Mathews, a licensed Architect, is also an expert in off-site construction methodologies, including prefab, volumetric, panelized and mass timber construction. He has national experience in project due diligence, entitlement, design, finance, construction and construction management. Through the formation of AWI, Mathews has created a collective of experienced and dedicated design, construction and development professionals that believe in the use of modern methods of construction and progressive delivery techniques to provide clear and predictable outcomes to their clients and investors. AWI was created to understand the needs of development, investigate emerging technologies and collaborate with our construction partners, pushing the practice of architecture and development into the future. We eliminate unnecessary time designing systems that can be repeated, leaving more time to solve the unique design challenges of our clients, the environment and the places we design for.

Assemblage-Works

Founder & CEO

Moderator

Michael Mathews

Founder & CEO, Assemblage-Works

What You'll Learn:

What You’ll Learn:

While Portland’s office market still exhibits high vacancy rates, the signing of multiple large leases in Q2 indicates signs of improvement and optimism in downtown and the overall market. Explore how leading owners and developers strategically incentivize tenants to sign office leases and create attractive spaces amid Portland's evolving market conditions.
Gain insights into the evolving dynamics of downtown activations, suburban developments and effective tenant attraction strategies in Portland's real estate landscape.
Explore current development and investment activity in Portland’s housing market, spanning from luxury to affordable housing options.
Examine the expected impacts of supply and demand dynamics on market fundamentals moving forward.
Understand the diverse financing models Portland's CRE leaders utilize to navigate market fluctuations and ensure project success.
Explore emerging construction trends and alternative site selection strategies to mitigate risks and drive projects forward despite market volatility.
Understand the challenges and opportunities associated with navigating the tax landscape and securing financing for real estate projects in Portland.

How You’ll Do More Business: Join us for a deep dive into Portland's investment and development landscape, where we'll explore its resilience in the face of recent challenges. Discover how a surge in transactions, investments and development activities underscores the city's rebounding economy. We'll examine downtown revitalization efforts, analyze the housing sector's supply and demand dynamics and uncover strategies for attracting and retaining tenants in today's evolving market.

Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants and bankers.

Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you 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 we do.

For questions, recommendations, comments or press inquiries please email our event producer, Bora Altunay, at bora.altunay@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact rachel.sundin@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

Hyatt Regency Portland
375 NE Holladay St
Portland, OR 97232

Ballroom: Deschutes Ballroom & Foyer, Level 1

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	Portland Development Outlook: Driving Projects to Completion From Financing and Construction Trends to Design Innovations and Site Selection, How Are Portland's CRE Leaders Driving Projects to Completion?
9:45 AM 10:00 AM	Networking Break
10:00 AM 10:45 AM	Living and Working in Portland Exploring Supply and Demand Dynamics, Downtown Activations, Suburban Developments, and Tenant Demands and Attraction Strategies
10:45 AM 11:15 AM	Closing Networking

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Portland State of the Market

Creating a Live and Work Destination, Downtown Activations, Suburban Developments and Strategies in Driving Projects to Completion

Speakers and Panels

Living and Working in Portland

Exploring Supply and Demand Dynamics, Downtown Activations, Suburban Developments, and Tenant Demands and Attraction Strategies

Travis Drilling

Stefanie Kondor

Gus Baum

Dana Krawczuk

Portland Development Outlook: Driving Projects to Completion

From Financing and Construction Trends to Design Innovations and Site Selection, How Are Portland's CRE Leaders Driving Projects to Completion?

Todd Gooding

Evan Bernstein

Bashar Wali

Trevor Wyckoff

Michael Kaplan

Michael Mathews

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