Seattle Retail & Hospitality Summit

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Seattle Retail & Hospitality Summit

Name: Seattle Retail & Hospitality Summit
Start: 2025-06-04T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-06-04T11:15:00-07:00

Exploring Supply vs. Demand Dynamics, Prime Locations, Renovations, Tenant and Guest Experience Trends, and Preparing for the 2026 World Cup

Wednesday June 4 2025 @ 8:00 AM PDT

$109.00

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Speakers and Panels

Seattle Hotel Insights: A Destination for Tourism and Travel

Exploring Market Performance, Development Trends, Renovations, and Design Innovations Enhancing Guest Experience

Kimo Bertram

VP, Real Estate & Development, Hyatt Hotels

Matt Hagerman

President, Hotels & Resorts, Columbia Hospitality

Gregory Steinhauer

President, Steinhauer 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

Seattle’s Retail Landscape: Strategies for Resilience and Growth

Prime Locations, Leasing Trends, Tenant Demand Drivers, and the Future of Consumer Engagement

Patrick Foley

Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Lake Union Partners

Ethan Stowell

CEO and Founder, Ethan Stowell Restaurants

Kemper McQuaid

EVP, Development and Leasing, Kemper Development

Inger Johnson

VP, Real Estate, Pine Street Group

What You'll Learn:

What You’ll Learn:

Examine how rising lease rates—which reached an all-time high at the end of 2024—are impacting retail investment decisions, tenant retention, and leasing dynamics across downtown and suburban Seattle.
Understand the factors influencing recent market shifts, including move-outs by larger national chains, and discover how innovative tenant strategies and creative leasing approaches are driving future demand.
Discover how Seattle’s hospitality market rebounded with record-breaking revenues, driven by increased business travel and Amazon's return-to-office policy. Learn how these trends are influencing hotel occupancy, rates, and development opportunities.
Gain insight into the design trends and collaborative strategies that top architects, contractors, and developers are employing to deliver retail and hospitality spaces aligned with modern consumer and guest preferences.
Learn how major players are preparing for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, leveraging this global event to enhance Seattle’s reputation as a travel destination.
Uncover key factors influencing investment and development decisions, including the economic climate, cost pressures, and future projections for supply and demand in Seattle’s highly competitive retail and hotel markets.

Articles to checkout:

Seattle Hotels Forecasts Record-High RevPAR in 2025

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.

Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	Seattle’s Retail Landscape: Strategies for Resilience and Growth Prime Locations, Leasing Trends, Tenant Demand Drivers, and the Future of Consumer Engagement
9:45 AM 10:00 AM	Networking Break
10:00 AM 10:45 AM	Seattle Hotel Insights: A Destination for Tourism and Travel Exploring Market Performance, Development Trends, Renovations, and Design Innovations Enhancing Guest Experience
10:45 AM 11:15 AM	Closing Networking

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