Event details:
State of the Market: What does the post-pandemic commercial real estate market look like, and where will it go from here?
LAI Golden Gate is going virtual during the shelter-in-place! Please join us on Tuesday, May 12, from noon-1 pm, for our first virtual program: an insider look at the post-pandemic office and retail markets in San Francisco and Oakland. How has the pandemic affected current leasing activity? What do future space planning needs look like? Will retail as we knew it ever return?
Three leading brokers will discus the current market dynamics in the office and retail leasing markets, as well as their thoughts on how these markets will evolve in the post-pandemic world.
About our speakers:
Chris Roeder is an International Director of Commercial Real Estate and the broker lead for JLL’s San Francisco office. He has been recognized with numerous accolades from NAIOP and the SF Business Times, with highlights including Lease of the Year for the Salesforce lease at 350 Mission, and Deal of the Year for the 1355 Market Twitter lease. He attended the University of San Diego.
Benjamin Harrison is Senior Vice President in the Oakland | East Bay office of Colliers. For 18 years Ben has represented numerous commercial owners and tenants throughout the Oakland metro market and broader East Bay. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, and attended the University of Pennsylvania, Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School.
Kazuko Y. Morgan is a Vice Chairman based in Cushman & Wakefield’s San Francisco office and has been active in commercial real estate throughout her 20+ year career. She has been involved in over $6 billion in transactions and serves on Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Advisory Board and International Retail Group, participating in the firm’s global retail initiatives. Ms. Morgan is consistently one of the top brokerage professionals globally and has been recognized several times as the #1 broker for Cushman & Wakefield’s Retail Services. Ms. Morgan is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley.