16th Annual Trends Days
Join ULI Arizona for the 16th Annual Trends Days. This year’s virtual program will be three mornings of deep-dive content, bringing together 50+ top industry experts from across the globe to discuss the most current real estate trends, with a focus on what to expect in the future, where the best opportunities can be found, and how these components affect both public and private sector partners. ULI Arizona’s Trends Day is recognized as the third largest ULI program globally…this is the not-to-be-missed event of the year.
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DAY 1 – April 20, 2021
8:00-8:10am
Welcome:
Heidi Kimball, Chair, ULI Arizona; Senior Vice President, Sunbelt Holdings
W. Edward Walter, Global Chief Executive Officer, Urban Land Institute
Manjula Vaz, Chair, Trends Days 2021; Partner, Gammage & Burnham
8:10-8:55am
Predictions for the US Economy, or Life in the Canary Watch Box
Sponsored By: SRP | The Grand at Papago Park
Dr. Peter Linneman, esteemed author, educator and real estate investment strategist, will share his insights and research into the US economy amidst COVID recovery under the new Biden administration, including observations regarding the hardest hit sectors of the real estate economy. How worried should we be about government debt and deficits, and are we headed into an inflationary economy? What about US Treasury yields? Will Forbearance be the name of the lending game long enough to sustain CRE recovery? So many canaries in the watch box! Listen and learn from this renowned expert!
Dr. Peter Linneman, Founding Principal, Linneman Associates LLC; Chief Executive Officer, American Opportunity Zones Fund; Chief Executive Officer, KL Realty
9:00-9:30am
Fireside Chat: The Long Game: Waging the War on Coronavirus
Sponsored By: Gammage & Burnham and Sunbelt Holdings
Even though most of the public focus is on limiting the spread of Covid-19 and on increasing our ability to receive the vaccination, experts are also focused on what changes we will need to make in our work spaces and public gathering spots to combat the disease and mitigate the effects going forward . Dr. Keim will share the advanced diagnostics of infectious disease targeting both the pathogen and the host responses in an attempt to understand the origins, transmission and future protocols as it pertains to the Coronavirus.
Steve Roman, Founding Partner (Ret.), FirstStrategic Communications and Public Affairs– Interviewer
Dr. Paul Keim, Executive Director, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute; Regents Professor, and Co-Director of TGen North, Northern Arizona University
9:35-10:20am
Concurrent Session #1 – Office in Flux: Which Way is Up?
Sponsored By: Gensler
COVID has accelerated certain office trends and also brought new issues to light which may or may not have lasting impacts on the use and value of different types of office space. Join our esteemed panelists as they share their worldwide experience handling the immediate challenges they have to address during these uncertain times, as well as discuss how they are re-imagining the existing space and their views on trends in the future. An owner/developer, an architect and a tenant, all with both national and international perspectives, will discuss their reactions to questions of long- and short-term trends for design and use, flight to the suburbs, employee security/safety and remote work.
Paul Komadina, Senior Managing Director and Market Leader, CBRE – Moderator
Chris Anderson, Senior Managing Director, Hines
John Paul Bruno, Vice President, Global Real Estate and Procurement, Workday, Inc.
Janet Pogue McLaurin, Principal, Global Workplace Research Leader, Gensler
Concurrent Session #2 – The Explosion of Single Family Build-for-Rent
Sponsored By: Walker & Dunlop
Are you making offers on land and losing to build-for -rent developers, yet you don’t even know what build for rent really means? Are you in the homebuilding business or multi-family space and thinking about delivering a build-for-rent community but haven’t done one before? Is your municipality getting zoning applications for build-for-rent communities but you aren’t sure what the long-term impacts will be if you approve the project? This expert panel of national and local build-for-rent experts will illuminate the ‘what, where and why’ of these powerful new communities that are taking the real estate market by storm.
Margaret Whelan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Whelan Advisory – Moderator
Jay Byce, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, ResiBuilt Homes
Erik Heuser, Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Operations Officer, Taylor Morrison
Keaton Merrell, Managing Director, Walker & Dunlop
10:30-11:30am
ROUNDTABLE BREAKOUTS
Roundtable #1 – The Future of Healthy Design and Buildings
Facilitators:
Steve Roman, Founding Partner (Ret.), FirstStrategic Communications and Public Affairs
Dr. Paul Keim, Executive Director, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute; Regents Professor, and Co-Director of TGen North, Northern Arizona University
Sponsored By: Mortenson
Roundtable #2 – Office Evolution
Facilitators:
– Janet Pogue McLaurin, Principal, Global Workplace Research Leader, Gensler
– Cathy Teeter, Managing Director – Advisory & Transaction Services, CBRE
– Jennifer Understahl, Partner, Perkins Coie
Sponsored By: Perkins Coie
Roundtable #3 – SFBFR: Spelling it Out
Facilitators:
– Keaton Merrell, Managing Director, Walker & Dunlop
– Margaret Whelan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Whelan Advisory
Sponsored by: Brookfield Residential
Roundtable #4 – Reshaping Retail
Facilitators:
– Amy Malloy, Managing Principal, Evolve Ventures
– Joshua Simon, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SimonCRE
Sponsored By: Evolve Ventures and SimonCRE
Roundtable #5 – The Importance of Design, Arts & Culture
Facilitators:
Randi Dorman, Chief of Making it Happen, R+R Develop
Catrina Kahler, President and Chief Executive Officer, Artlink Inc.
Sponsored by: APS and Espiritu Loci
DAY 2 – April 21, 2021
8:00-8:35am
Capital Markets Keynote: Show Me The Money!
Sponsored By: Lewis Roca
Are you wondering about the availability of capital and how and where that capital is being deployed? Curious about how developers and equity investors are getting deals done? Do you want to know how providers of debt and equity are interacting in the current lending environment? With a view to the near term, this keynote will answer those questions for you and much, much more.
Mary Ludgin, Ph.D., Senior Managing Director and Director of Global Investment Research, Heitman
8:40-9:25am
Arizona’s Explosive Growth in Manufacturing
Sponsored By: City of Tempe
How have COVID and policy changes affected manufacturing activity in the U.S.? How seriously is reshoring being considered or how are manufacturers preparing for the next disruptor? What role does real estate, infrastructure and workforce play? Why Arizona?
Grace O’Sullivan, Vice President, Corporate Engagement and Strategic Partnerships, Arizona State University – Moderator
Laura Matz, Ph.D., Vice President, Planatization, EMD Electronics
Micah Miranda, Economic Development Director, City of Chandler
Jim Rounds, President, Rounds Consulting Group, Inc.
9:30-10:20am
Concurrent Session #1 – The Industrial Evolution
Sponsored By: Landmark Title Assurance Agency
The industrial real estate ecosystem has seen tremendous evolution over the past decade with the growth of e-commerce demand driving the rise of cold storage, last mile facilities and distribution centers. This panel will be a candid discussion between national industry leaders on the state of industrial real estate, high level trends driving the asset class boom, and the trends that will transform the industry.
Robert Thornburgh, SIOR, CCIM, CPM, FRICS, Chief Executive Officer, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) – Moderator
Jon Levy, Executive Vice President – Industrial Development, Patrinely Group
Kim Snyder, President, U.S. West Region, Prologis
Cathy Thuringer, Managing Director and Market Leader, Trammell Crow Company
Concurrent Session #2 – Reimagining the Future of Tourism and Entertainment
Sponsored By: Holualoa Companies
In the last 10 years, large indoor, destination entertainment had become the norm in many metropolitan communities. Fast forward into a world forever changed and the increased demand for outdoor, recreational, highly curated and amenitized health and wellness tourism. Sunbelt states like Arizona are finding themselves perfectly acclimated to take advantage of these opportunities.
Megan Trummel, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Visit Phoenix – Moderator
Matt Cooley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cloth & Flame
Brian Friedman, Director of Economic Development, City of Glendale
Donald Leadbetter, Tourism Program Manager, National Park Service
10:30-11:30am
ROUNDTABLE BREAKOUTS
Roundtable #1 – Capital Markets – What’s Trending and Why?
Facilitators:
Ann McCartney, Vice President – Debt & Structured Finance, CBRE
John Rawicz, Partner, Lewis Roca
Sponsored By: Cousins
Roundtable #2 – The Evolution of Industrial Tenants and Space
Facilitators:
Megan Creecy-Herman, Sr. Vice President, Operations – West Region, Prologis
Jackie Orcutt, Senior Vice President – Industrial & Logistics, CBRE
Dean Sheppard, Vice President, Business Attraction, Arizona Commerce Authority
Sponsored By: Ryan Companies
Roundtable #3 – Reimagining Hospitality and Tourism
Facilitators:
Brian Friedman, Director of Economic Development, City of Glendale
Donald Leadbetter, Tourism Program Manager, National Park Service
Sponsored By: Ascent at The Phoenician
Roundtable #4 – Housing Affordability Whys and Hows
Facilitator:
Sheree Bouchee, Affordable Housing Advocate, City of Phoenix Housing Department
Dan Klocke, Development Project Manager, Gorman & Company
Sponsored By: Gorman & Company
Roundtable #5 – ED Attraction, Retention and Recovery
Facilitators:
Fredrick “Rick” Buss, MPA, CSTM, ICMA-CM, Economic Development Director, City of Peoria
Barbra Coffee, CEcD, EDFP, Economic Initiatives Director, City of Tucson
Micah Miranda, Economic Development Director, City of Chandler
Sponsored By: City of Peoria
DAY 3 – April 22, 2021
8:00-8:45am
Leadership in Times of Transition
Sponsored By: Willmeng
Opportunities to truly lead are often born from the most difficult of circumstances. The challenges of 2020 created such an opportunity. This discussion will explore leadership during difficult transition and chaos, and the consequences of remaining true to ones values and ideals during such difficult times.
Jeff Flake, Former Senator, United States Senate
Bob Worsley, Entrepreneur, Author and Former Arizona State Senator, NZ Legacy, LLC; ZenniHome, LLC; NovoPower, LLC
8:50-9:00am
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and the Urban Land Institute
Sonia L. Huntley, Senior Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Urban Land Institute
9:00-9:30am
Fireside Chat – Leadership: Engagement, Equity and Community Development
Sponsored By: CBRE
True leadership should challenge us to focus on community growth and community wellness. Today, we will hear how it is the responsibility of all leaders, especially those in a development capacity, to harness the tools for thoughtful community building and equitable development. Through his stewardship, Omar Passons uses engagement and inclusion to assess the issues facing his community and challenges us to build the bridge to economic equity.
Omar Passons, Esq., MPH, Director, Division of Integrative Services, County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency; Chair, ULI San Diego/Tijuana Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
9:35-10:20am
Concurrent Session #1 – The Climate Paradigm, a Discussion about Risk and Opportunity
Sponsored By: Pivotal Group
Spencer Glendon is the quintessential renaissance man, with degrees in Industrial Engineering and Economics, and extensive training in finance, history and language. His scientific study of the investment risk imposed by climate change is astonishing and deeply compelling. You will not want to miss this insightful discussion of his Probable Futures, which he founded and developed in partnership with Woodwell Climate Research Center. Listen and learn about adjusting to a future that will indisputably be altered by climate, in terms CRE investors will appreciate and understand.
Spencer Glendon, Founder, Probable Futures
Concurrent Session #2 – Biotechnology Leading Innovation
Sponsored By: Alliance Bank and Maricopa IDA
The healthcare and biotechnology market sector has seen tremendous growth in Arizona since the economy re-emerged from the Great Recession. While Arizona has long been a healthcare delivery destination, the field of bioscience has evolved to complement healthcare. With increased collaboration among the three state universities, and partnerships between higher education and healthcare providers, this market is poised as a leader in economic innovation. This panel discussion will focus on biotechnology market growth in Arizona and how the business community can support the market to be a leader on the national and global stage.
Joshua LaBaer, MD, Ph.D., Executive Director, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University – Moderator
Joan Koerber-Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arizona Bioindustry Association
Jian Zuo, MD., Ph.D., Chair, Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University
10:30-11:30am
ROUNDTABLE BREAKOUTS
Roundtable #1 – Diversity and Inclusion – How to Make a Difference
Facilitators:
Ioanna Morfessis, Ph.D., President and Chief Strategist, IO.INC
Essen Otu, Manager, Diversity and Inclusion, SRP
Sponsored By: Hines
Roundtable #2 – Climate Resilience – How Can We Get There?
Facilitator:
Mark Hartman, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Phoenix
Ladd Keith, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Planning and Sustainable Built Environments & Chair, Sustainable Built Environments, The University of Arizona
Sponsored By: Skanska
Roundtable #3 – Mobility and Density Trends and Realities
Facilitators:
Tom Hester, Principal, Jacobs
Maria Hyatt, Senior Planner, Gannett Fleming, Inc.
Sponsored By: DMB
Roundtable #4 – The Future of Water and Growth
Facilitators:
Cheryl L. Lombard, President and Chief Executive Officer, Valley Partnership
Wellington “Duke” Reiter, FAIA, Senior Advisor to the President, Arizona State University
Sponsored By: Vogel Family Charitable Foundation
Roundtable #5 – Social Impact Investing and Development
Facilitators:
Kevin Augustyn, Vice President – North American CMBS, DBRS Morningstar
Elisa de la Vara, Chief Community Officer (Retired), Arizona Community Foundation
Sponsored By: Novus Innovation Corridor
