Conference Program
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
7:30 a.m.–5:30pm
ULI registration desk open.
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Networking Coffee
9:00–9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Rick J. Caruso, Conference Chair
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Caruso Affiliated
9:15–10:15 a.m.
General Session
Surviving and Thriving: Development Strategies for Challenging Times
Hear from the leaders of the retail development community and discuss with them their plans for coping with today’s unique challenges. Who is doing well, and how are they doing it? How are they positioning themselves for the future? Learn from the experts about the strategies they are pursuing to survive and thrive.
10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Keynote Speaker
New Channels/New Challenges
Henry Beer, Co-Chairman/Principal
Communication Arts, Inc.
Technology-enabled social networking—YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn—will alter how we connect with the places we go and the exchanges that happen in those places. Beer has been surfing and studying these “new channels” and will share insights and discoveries he’s made.
11:00 a.m.–Noon
Concurrent Sessions (choose one)
I. Redevelopment of Aging and Obsolete Centers: Getting It Done in Today’s Market
Hear about the most creative ways developers are adding value to their aging retail centers and shopping districts in the face of extraordinary financing and development challenges as well as changing consumer expectations. See how redevelopment has led to reinvigorated balance sheets, more sustainable developments, and more livable communities.
II. Turning the Corner in a Struggling Urban Shopping District: How to Leverage Retail/Mixed-Use Development
Urban shopping districts from coast to coast are turning the corner and regaining their lost luster and economic raison d’être. But these are not your mother’s or father’s downtowns. Their role has changed, along with their retail tenants, anchors, management, and public environments. Hear about the most creative revitalization strategies built around new leasing approaches, institutional partners, and public roles in today’s difficult economic climate.
Noon–1:45 p.m.
Networking Lunch and Keynote Speakers
Spectacular Retail Places Around the World
Brian Edwards, President/Chief Executive
Officer, Edwards Technologies, Inc.
and
Christopher C. LeTourneur, President and
Chief Executive Officer, MXD Development Strategists, Ltd.
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Interactive Workshops (choose one)
I. Sustainability of Retail-Driven Mixed-Use Developments and Effects on the Bottom Line
Sustainability is becoming a powerful competitive advantage for those retailers and retail mixed-use developers who understand what it can mean to the bottom line. But going forward, sustainability will become standard business practice. So the sooner you understand what it really means for your business and community, the more you will reap its benefits.
II. Transit-Oriented, Mixed-Use Development: Positioning for the Future
As retailing reinvents itself in the face of new delivery channels, overbuilding, and obsolescence, the logic for creating retail mixed-use developments around transit becomes inescapable. Commuter rail, subway, light rail, trolley, and bus rapid transit stations offer opportunities that 21st-century developers need, and the convenience that 21st-century customers want. Discuss with the experts how it is being done.
III. Practical Management Strategies for Attracting New Customers and Streamlining Operations
More than ever, the ability to survive and thrive means paying attention to the nuts and bolts of the business. Retenanting, reducing costs (including for energy), making incremental improvements, being more creative with your marketing, and readjusting your tenant charges are just some of the ways to attract new customers and streamline operations. Learn about the innovative strategies that will have the most impact on your bottom line.
3:15 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Case Study
How to Succeed in a Changing Market
So much of the innovation in retail development over the past decade has involved creating mixed-use, live-work-play environments. As market conditions shift, how are these projects faring? What strategies are insuring success? Learn from the experiences of two teams of developers and architects that collaborated on one project about the do’s and don’ts in today’s market; i.e., what’s working and what’s not.
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Interactive Workshops (choose one)
I: Developers Anonymous
Developers are now facing challenges from all directions—from lenders’ unwillingness to lend to consumers’ unwillingness to spend. This unique workshop will allow you talk about your development problems—whatever they are—with a range of experts who have been there and can offer their hands-on experience and advice. Exchange experiences or ask for help on the challenges you face developing, redeveloping, or managing retail and mixed-use projects in today’s topsy-turvy market.
II: Public/Private Partnerships: Today More than Ever
More than ever, the success of today’s retail and mixed-use projects depends on the willingness and ability of the public and nonprofit sector to partner with private developers. Discuss the latest and most imaginative strategies with the experts and get advice on your own particular redevelopment issues.
III: Cinema Opportunities
Discuss your cinema tenant needs, opportunities, and challenges with the industry’s leading decision makers. Hear the inside story about the latest technological and customer service advances, current expansion plans and deal structures, and niche products suitable for a range of conventional and unconventional locations and development types.
5:30 p.m.–6:45 p.m.
Networking Reception
Thursday, February 5, 2009
8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
ULI registration desk open.
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Networking Coffee
9:00–9:45 a.m.
Featured Speaker
Animating Public Spaces Through Live Events
Aaron Paley, President
Community Arts Resources
Paley will speak about the transformation of places through ephemeral cultural, inter-active and site-specific programming. Based upon his 25 years of experience producing festivals and events as well as his work as a planning consultant, Paley discusses the economic and social impact of bringing events to public spaces. His talk will address strategies for space transformation, specific case studies, and an eight point outline of best practices for this type of work.
9:45–10:45 a.m.
Interactive Sessions (choose one)
I. In-Line Tenant Opportunities: Who’s Still Doing Deals?
Hear about the hottest tenants who are still looking for expansion opportunities, and find out what it takes to snag them for your development or main street. Expanding foreign (and some domestic) chains, exciting new retail concepts, and a range of temporary tenants are out there, and they are still signing deals.
II. Entertainment Reemerges as a Bright Spot in a Dismal Tenant Market
Small and medium-sized cultural and entertainment venues are emerging as important anchors for many of today’s retail-driven, mixed-use developments. Family-, children-, generation Y-, and sports-oriented attractions are proving to be amazing catalysts for successful shopping center and urban revitalization strategies. In this session you will hear about some of the most exciting active tenants, what their expansion plans are, and the types of deals and locations they are looking for.
10:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Peer-to-Peer Networking Break
Informal small, issue-oriented tables will be set up in the display area for additional peer-to-peer conversation.
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
General Session
Where’s the Money, and Can You Get It?
The billion-dollar question these days is how to get access to capital at a time when it appears to be nowhere in sight. If you want to pursue a market-driven infill or redevelopment project, are there sources of capital that you can still approach to secure equity or debt financing? Are there emerging nontraditional sources that remain untapped? Can public financing make the difference? What do you have to do to secure financing in these difficult times? Hear from experts with money to invest who will provide you with insights and advice and help steer you in the right direction.
12:15 p.m.
Conference Ends
Optional Tour*
Thursday, February 5, 2009
12:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Insider Tour
The Americana at Brand and Santa Monica Place
ULI offers one tour that will visit two suburban downtowns that are being reenergized by extraordinary retail mixed-use projects: The Americana at Brand in Glendale and Santa Monica Place in Santa Monica. These projects are putting their communities back on the map as must-see, must-visit destinations for residents of and visitors to the Los Angeles area, and they represent state-of-the-art retail and mixed-use development.
See and hear for yourself how these developments have been conceptualized, planned, designed, developed, tenanted, marketed, and paid for. The tours will include walk-throughs and briefings led by senior members of the development teams.
*An additional fee applies, box lunch included. Tour space is limited. You must be registered for the conference in order to participate with the tour.
Conference Speakers
Rob Anderson
President and Principal
Field Paoli
San Francisco, California
Bill Banowsky
Magnolia Pictures / Landmark Theatres / Carolina Cinemas
Austin, Texas
Henry Beer
Co-Chairman/Principal
Communication Arts, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado
Dena Belzer
Principal
Strategic Economics
Berkeley, California
Jill Bensley
President
JB Research Company
Ojai, California
David Blitz
President
Nebo Capital
Los Angeles, California
Lawrence S. Bond
Chairman
Bond Companies
Los Angeles, California
Randy Brant
Executive Vice President, Real Estate
Macerich
Santa Monica, California
Raymond Braun
Senior Vice President
Economics Research
Associates
Los Angeles, California
Thomas Brink
Vice President
RTKL Associates, Inc.
Dallas, Texas
Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs
President and Chief Financial Officer
Lifescapes International, Inc.
Newport Beach, California
James Butler
Chairman, Global Hospitality Group
Jeffers, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP
Los Angeles, California
Henry L. Byma
Vice President and Senior Landscape Architect
JJR, LLC
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Donald K. Carter
President
Urban Design Associates
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rick J. Caruso
President and Chief Executive Officer
Caruso Affiliated
Los Angeles, California
Robert G. Crane
Vice President, Real Estate
Regal Entertainment Group
Knoxville, Tennessee
Jillian Detweiler
Senior Planner
TriMet Transit Agency
Portland, Oregon
Patrick Donahue
President and Chief Executive Officer
Donahue Schriber
Costa Mesa, California
Robert Dunphy
Senior Resident Fellow, Transportation
Urban Land Institute
Washington, D.C.
Brian Edwards
President/Chief Executive Officer
Edwards Technologies, Inc.
El Segundo, California
Jon Eisen
Managing Principal
StreetSense
Bethesda, Maryland
Pat Esgate
President
Esgate & Associates
Nyack, New York
Ian Gillis
President and Partner
Urban Community Partners, LLC
Monterey, California
Alan Goodkin
Managing Director
The Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group LLC
New York, New York
James Grigsby
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
JPRA Architect
Novi, Michigan
Greg R. Gunter
Vice President
3rd Works
Denver, Colorado
Scott Newton Hall
Senior Vice President
Real Estate and Development
Hollywood Theaters
Greenwood Village, Colorado
Hamid Hashemi
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ipic Entertainment
Boca Raton, Florida
Calvin E. Hollis II
Managing Principal
Keyser Marston Associates, Inc.
Los Angeles, California
Stephen C. Hopkins
President
Hopkins Real Estate Group
Irvine, California
Jeffrey M. Hudson
Chief Executive Officer
George Elkins Mortgage
Banking Inc.
Los Angeles, California
Brett Hutchens
President/CEO
Casto Lifestyle Properties
Sarasota, Florida
Jeff Kreshek
Principal – Leasing
CIM Group, Inc.
Los Angeles, California
Paul Kurzawa
Executive Vice President, Operations
Caruso Affiliated
Los Angeles, California
Philip S. Lanzafame
Director, Development Services
City of Glendale
Glendale, California
Christopher C. LeTourneur
President and Chief Executive Officer
MXD Development Strategists, Ltd.
Abbotsford, British Columbia
Whitney Livingston
Regional Director, Marketing
Madison Marquette
San Francisco, California
Tom Lockard
Managing Director
Stone and Youngberg, LLC
San Francisco, California
Charles A. Long
President
Charles A. Long Properties
Berkeley, California
Hunter Lovins
President and Founder
Natural Capitalism Solutions
El Dorado Springs, Colorado
Michael McManus
Senior Vice President, Construction & Development
Caruso Affiliated
Los Angeles, California
Lindley H. Miller, III
Project Manager
Wilson Meany Sullivan
San Francisco, California
Morgan Dene Oliver
Chief Executive Officer
Oliver McMillan
San Diego, California
Aaron Paley
President
Community Arts Resources
Los Angeles, California
Brian Ratner
Executive Vice President
Forest City
Cleveland, Ohio
Keith Ray
Principal-in-charge, Retail & Urban Mixed-Use Design
MVE & Partners, Inc.
Irvine, California
Tim Reed
Senior Vice President
Village Roadshow Gold Glass Cinemas
Westfield, Indiana
Max Reim
Managing Partner and Principal
Live Work Learn Play, LLP
Montreal, Quebec
Paul Richardson
President and CEO
Sundance Cinemas
Thousand Oaks, California
Ian Ritter
National Online Editor and Author of GlobeSt.com Counter Culture Retail Blog
GlobeSt.com
New York, New York
Shlomi Ronen
Senior Vice President
George Smith Partners, Inc.
Los Angeles, California
Todd M. Russell
Executive Vice President, Retail Leasing
Caruso Affiliated
Los Angeles, California
Jay M. Shapiro
President
JMS Advisory
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Robert Shaw
President and Chief Executive Officer
Columbus Realty
Addison, Texas
Kathleen Shields
Senior Vice President
Simon Property Group
Indianapolis, Indiana
Charles P. Stilley
President
AMC Realty, Inc.
Kansas City, Missouri
Colton Sudberry
Senior Vice President, Development
Sudberry Properties, Inc.
San Diego, California
Lee Wagman
Chief Executive Officer
The Martin Group
Santa Monica, California
Kenneth P. Wong
Vice Chairman
The Related Companies
Los Angeles, California