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TUESDAY / 8:00-8:45

Lobby

COFFEE TALK

TUESDAY / 8:50-9:00

Rooms 1 & 2

WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS & OVERVIEW 

TUESDAY / 9:00-9:45

Rooms 1 & 2

Silverbacks – Unvarnished Truth From the Grizzled Veterans at the Intersection of Retail and Real Estate

  • (Host) Jeff Zeigler, Open Realty

  • Jess Bruner, Bond Retail Partners

  • Michael Townsend, Townsend & Associates

  • Steve Merkle, Open Realty

  • Steve Rouman, RH

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Il Premio Lounge

How to Build a City-Changing Lifestyle Hotel and Club

  • (Host) Chris Carter, Vantage Realty Partners

  • Jim Irwin, New City

  • Randy Cook, Method Co.

  • Morris Adjmi, Morris Adjmi Architects

TUESDAY / 10:00-10:45

Rooms 1 & 2

Pearl Square: A Downtown Transformation Through Thirty Blocks of Placemaking

  • (Host) Kristen Morris, Morris & Fellows

  • Matthew Clark, Colliers Urban Division

  • Bryan Moll, Gateway Jax

  • James Nozar, East + Main

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Il Premio Lounge

Good Food Makes for Good Places

  • (Host) Eric Weatherholtz

  • Todd Ginsberg, Rye Restaurants

  • Steven Satterfield, Miller Union

TUESDAY / 11:00-1:00

LUNCH 

Field Trip Lunch: 9 Mile Station, Ponce City Market

Take the elevator to the rooftop!

Hot Ones

  • Will Heidel, RE Community Partners

  • Chris Hall, Unsukay

TUESDAY / 1:15-2:00

Rooms 1 & 2

Culture Meets Development

  • (Host) Toni Williams

  • Bem Joiner, Atlanta Influences Everything

  • Ree De La Vega, Chaka Khan Hacienda

  • Jabari Graham, Art, Beats & Lyrics

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Room 3

Restaurant Buildout Cost – What’s the Cure?

  • (Host) William Ball, Choate

  • Marji Aron, Fox Restaurant Concepts

  • Fares Kargar, delbar/Nooshé Jān Group

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FORTH Club (limited to 20 people)

The Role of Boutique Hotels

  • Robert LeBlanc, LeBlanc + Smith

  • Randy Cook, Method Co.

  • Jason Reeves, Highlander Mountain House

TUESDAY / 2:15-3:00

Rooms 1 & 2

Hyperscaling Local Brands

  • (Host) Michael Davis, CEO, Homegrown

  • Michael Tavani, CEO, Switchyards

  • Peiru Kim, Sugarcoat

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Il Premio Lounge

Smooth Scaling – Emerging Brands

  • Andréa Vieira, nailsaloon 

  • Demetri Tsolakis, Xenia Hospitality 

  • Scott Parker, Bearded Goat 

  • Neha Govindraj, Bonside

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Rooms 3

Historic Buildings, Modern Technology, and a Startup Mentality – the Rebirth of South Downtown Atlanta

  • (Host) Eric Weatherholtz

  • David Cummings, Atlanta Ventures

  • Jon Birdsong, South Downtown

  • Tana Bhamaraniyama, Tyde Tate Kitchen

TUESDAY / 3:15-4:00

Rooms 1 & 2

Breathing New Life into History – Denver’s Union Station, the Dairy Blocks, and Tahoe’s CalNeva Resort

  • (Host) Eric Weatherholtz

  • Chad McWhinney, McWhinney

  • Walter Isenberg, Sage Hospitality

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Room 3

F&B’s Willy Wonkas

  • (Host) David Levine, Urban Partners

  • Ben Berg, Berg Hospitality Group

  • Troy Guard, TAG Hospitality

TUESDAY / 4:15-5:00

Rooms 1 & 2

The World’s Greatest Bar

  • (Host) Michael Townsend, Townsend & Associates

  • Michael Lennox, Electric Hospitality

  • Robert LeBlanc, LeBlanc + Smith

  • Greg Best, Ticonderoga Club

  • Mitchell Maggard, Urban Partners

TUESDAY / 5:00-7:00

MARGARITA PARTY ON THE PARK

Tacos from DAS Tex-Mex

WEDNESDAY / 9:00-9:45

Lobby

COFFEE TALK

WEDNESDAY / 10:00-10:45

Rooms 1 & 2

The Creative Class: Tenant Edition

  • (Host) Adam Schwegman, North American Properties

  • Joshua Rainey, Solidcore

  • Ansley Bowman, Faced Facial Studio

  • Holden Slusher, Sugared & Bronzed

  • Matthew Sargenti, Framebridge

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Room 3

The Burbs are Back

  • (Host) Mark Toro, Toro Development

  • Herbert Ames, EDENS

  • Benjamin Collins, Crescent Communities

WEDNESDAY / 11:00-11:45

Rooms 1 & 2

Reinventing Retail

  • Jodie McLean, EDENS

WEDNESDAY / 12:00-1:30

Room 3

Automatic Girls Club Luncheon

Sponsored by Stafford

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Field Trip Lunch: New Realm Brewing

WEDNESDAY / 1:45-2:30

Rooms 1 & 2

A Cup of Ambition – Commercial Real Estate from a Woman’s POV

  • (Host) Tugboat

  • Melissa Ahrendt, Stafford

  • Cheri Morris, Morris & Fellows

  • Terri King, Terri King Commercial

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Rooms 3

How Hospitality is Shaping Office Environments

  • (Host) Elizabeth Feichter, Southern Culinary & Creative

  • Chris Eachus, CP Group

  • Nick Garzia, Hines

WEDNESDAY / 2:45-3:30

Rooms 1 & 2

Private Equity Round Table - What is Getting Funded

  • (Host) Nico Marin, Sorelle Capital

  • David Hobbs, EBSCO

  • Aaron Davis, Rialto

  • Colin Rosenbaum, CBRE Investment Management

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Room 3

Navigating Shifting Sands – How Top Institutional Investors See the World of Retail and Mixed-use Property Investment

  • (Host) Brian Smith, Brand Properties

  • Katie Grissom, Nuveen 

  • Alison Hallberg, PGIM

WEDNESDAY / 3:45-4:30

Rooms 1 & 2

How Hospitality and Fast Casual Coexist

  • (Host) Gene Rice, Vantage Properties

  • Nate Hybl, Gusto

  • Daniel Van Loh, Little Rey

  • Rob Marona, Pura Vida

  • Brett Jones, Barracuda

WEDNESDAY / 4:30

Rooms 1 & 2

GIVING KITCHEN TOAST

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