The carry trade is dead, and capital is moving to whoever can manufacture cash flow. Takeaways from a day with more than 250 investors and operators in emerging real estate.
Private wealth has passed the institutional market, and most sponsors have no idea how to reach it. A workshop on raising from family offices and RIAs.
Placemaking in real estate development, covering how a building, a district or a whole town acquires an identity people travel for. Thesis Driven tracks the operating side of placemaking rather than the renderings: programming and activation, ground-floor retail curation and tenant mix, third places and the economics behind them, brand and storytelling across the tower, district and city scales, and how developers underwrite value that shows up as rent premium rather than as a line item.
The coworking operators who sold Common Desk to WeWork are converting an office building into a “boutique” country club exclusive to families with young children.
Creating places that people want to be is the heart of good real estate development. Let's see how four developers are creating entirely new neighborhoods.
