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Current Season: First Draft Live
Between economic whiplash, shifting policies and market volatility that changes by the hour, you need industry insights that cut through the noise. That's exactly why we're launching First Draft Live, a new weekly series that breaks down what's happening, why it matters and what you need to know to do better business.
Join us live on Bisnow.com every Friday at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30AM PT for conversations with the industry's sharpest minds discussing the week's most critical stories, or catch the replay right afterwards — here on your podcast app of choice.
Between economic whiplash, shifting policies and market volatility that changes by the hour, you need industry insights that cut through the noise. That's exactly why we're launching First Draft Live, a new weekly series that breaks down what's happening, why it matters and what you need to know to do better business.
Join us live on Bisnow.com every Friday at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30AM PT for conversations with the industry's sharpest minds discussing the week's most critical stories, or catch the replay right afterwards — here on your podcast app of choice.
Episodes
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May 22, 2020 • 22min
Make Yourself At Home: Ryan Simonetti
In this week’s episode, we hear from Ryan Simonetti, the CEO of Convene. The RXR Realty and Brookfield-backed company, which has both flexible workspaces and an events and meeting arm, was forced to lay off and furlough hundreds of employees as a result of the crisis. He is speaking here about future of meetings in the world of social distancing and his take on when people will gather in large groups again.
May 15, 2020 • 27min
Make Yourself At Home: Margaret Anadu
In this episode, we speak to Margaret Anadu, the head of Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group. In New York, Urban Investment Group is one of the groups behind Essex Crossing -- a six-acre, mixed-use development with retail, office and more than 1,000 new homes on the Lower East Side. Here, she talks about getting capital to small businesses, what kind of impact this virus will have on the development of workforce and affordable housing in the United States and why she’s eager to get back to the office.
May 8, 2020 • 24min
Make Yourself At Home: Pamela Liebman
In this episode, Corcoran CEO Pamela Liebman talks about New York City bouncing back, negotiating between buyers and sellers during the pandemic and why she thinks residential prices won't be hit as much as they were in the fallout of 9/11.
May 1, 2020 • 24min
Make Yourself At Home: Mike Phillips And David Thame
In this week’s episode we hear from Bisnow UK Editor Mike Phillips and Manchester and Birmingham reporter David Thame on the uniquely British political tensions arising over lockdown, the evaporation of foreign capital and the future of offices, coworking and cities.
Apr 24, 2020 • 23min
Make Yourself At Home: Scott Gerber
Scott Gerber is the CEO of Gerber Group, a company with 10 bars and restaurants in New York City, Washington D.C. and Atlanta. In this episode, he talks about his predictions on how we will return to socializing, accessing government support, conversations with landlords and his experience with the virus.
Apr 17, 2020 • 33min
Make Yourself At Home: Sam Chandan
In this episode, we speak with Sam Chandan, the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development & Investment and dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate, about how shifts in the way we use space and interact in the city may impact real estate values.
We also discuss the real estate job market, and how real estate professionals can stay productive during this time of isolation
Apr 10, 2020 • 20min
Make Yourself At Home: Amol Sarva
Flexible workspace provider Knotel reached a $1B valuation last year, but like many of its competitors has been forced to make significant job cuts and prepare for a new reality as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Sarva speaks about the economic damage to the real estate industry, making layoffs, trying to give spaces back to landlords and reports the company hasn’t paid rent.
Apr 3, 2020 • 26min
Make Yourself At Home: Nelson Mills
Columbia Property Trust CEO Nelson Mills speaks about easing anxiety within the company, what this pandemic may mean for office space and design in the future, as well as his views on rent relief for tenants.
Mar 27, 2020 • 23min
Make Yourself At Home: Wendy Berger
WBS Equities CEO Wendy Berger owns build-to-suit food manufacturing and distribution buildings in multiple states including New York, Ohio, Illinois and Massachusetts. In this episode, she talks about her plan to help tenants, managing her own self isolation and how major personal tragedies have prepared her to manage a situation like this.
May 7, 2019 • 19min
Let's Have A Drink: A Conversation With Adelaide Polsinelli
In the sixth and final episode of our first season, we sit down with Compass Vice Chair Adelaide Polsinelli. We talk about getting her start in the industry, the impact of rent reform on the market, adapting to change and starting the investment sales division at Compass.
