With the Federal Reserve increasing interest rates to combat rising inflation and increased concerns about the economy being in, or heading into, a recession, how will those macroeconomic factors impact the southeastern Wisconsin commercial real estate market?
The annual BizTimes Media Commercial Real Estate and Development Conference will include several speakers to discuss those issues, including several from outside of the region to provide an outsider’s perspective on the Milwaukee-area market, thus the title of the program, “From the Outside Looking In.”
The conference will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17 from 7-9:45 a.m. at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee. Click here to register.
The keynote speaker will be Geoffrey Kasselman, a partner and senior vice president of workplace strategy for St. Louis-based commercial real estate development and investment firm CRG. Kasselman, who works in the firm’s Chicago office, provides clients “future-proofing” strategies for their real estate holdings and workplaces. An innovation-minded business futurist, his remarks will focus on how the big trends in the U.S. and global economies will shape the commercial real estate market in Milwaukee and the Upper Midwest.
The event will also include a panel discussion featuring:
- Lafayette Crump, commissioner for the Milwaukee Department of City Development.
- Tony Lindsay, principal for Chicago-based North Wells Capital, which owns the HUB640 building in downtown Milwaukee, which will become the new corporate headquarters for Fiserv and will be adding a Kohl’s store on the ground floor.
- Thomas D’Arcy, senior managing director for Houston-based real estate development and investment Hines, which is building a 31-story apartment tower in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Andy Hunt, Vieth Director for the Marquette University Center for Real Estate.
Marquette and the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW) are partners with the event.
The conference is sponsored by: Building Advantage, CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), Husch Blackwell and Johnson Financial Group.
Innovative Signs is an exhibit sponsor.
