THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 11:00 AM – 12 NOON.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WCB9AGFtS1GWHDVL7DO4Tw
What can we learn from mixed-use projects in the Bay Area and throughout the country?
What will happen to hundreds of malls and strip malls that are now closed across the country? Faced with a confluence of the pandemic, changing retail patterns and online shopping, developers in Texas and the Bay Area are looking at strategic re-inventions. By combining placemaking with housing, research/lab space and new types of retail uses they are creating a new vision that will bring these retail properties back to life.
The market demand for housing, logistics and warehousing centers as well as lab/research and development sites is opening new possibilities for these older retail uses. Our panel of speakers will bring their insights and experience together and discuss a new vision for the future of retail re-use.
Fred Pollack, RA, LEED AP
Founding Partner, Van Meter Williams Pollack
As a partner and founder of Van Meter Williams Pollack, Fred has worked for over two decades at the forefront of mixed-use pedestrian and transit-oriented planning and urban design. His focus as a leader in green and sustainable architecture has been designing urban infill on a scale that ranges from individual buildings to blocks and includes mixed-use communities, adaptive re-use of buildings, and multifamily affordable housing. Fred is a licensed architect in California and Hawaii. A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Environmental Design, he has traveled extensively worldwide, and for two years studied and worked as an architect in Denmark on a variety of highly published projects.
Trish Beckman, AIA, LEED, AP BD+C, NCARB
Partner at Field Paoli Architects
Trish is a partner at Field Paoli Architects. She strives for humanistic architecture in every project—putting herself in the place of the people who will visit and populate each space she designs. She starts by thinking about the ways we are inspired in life and what it means to live fully. Her designs stem from a desire to explore how the built environment orchestrates play, whimsy, leisure and reflection as a means to create space in time for each of us to build human relationships and our sense of community.
Some of the projects Trish has worked on include the Fashion Place Mall, Murray, Utah, Ghirardelli Ice Cream and Chocolate Shop at the LINQ, Las Vegas, Nevada and Prairiefire, Overland Park, Kansas
Adam Williams
Founder, of Denali Properties
Mr. Williams is the founder of Denali Properties and has over 17 years of industry experience involving transactions in excess of $4 billion. He previously served as Chief Investment Officer at Centennial Real Estate Company where he focused on leading the company’s investments in retail, office, and mixed-use properties. He began his career in law at the Dallas office of Kane Russell Coleman & Logan, PC, where he managed debt transactions and related litigation for bank clients and for distressed debt funds.
A recognized industry author, speaker, member of ICSC and The Urban Land Institute, he’s avidly involved in the real estate industry. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, a JD from Southern Methodist University, and a BA from the University of Arkansas. He is a licensed real estate broker in Texas and California, and is licensed to practice law in Texas (currently inactive).