TRECcast

On the latest episode of TRECcast, we sit down with the first chairman in TREC Foundation history, Bill Sechrest! Sechrest, who co-founded the law firm Winstead, Sechrest & Minick (now known as Winstead), chatted with current TREC Foundation Chairman Bill Cawley about the Foundation’s early days (back when it was known as the Community Development Assistance Corporation, what it means for a non-pr...

Criticism. Everybody gives it, everybody gets it, and on this episode of TRECcast, the Rose Porterfield Group will help you handle it like a pro! Dr. Bob Rose and Dr. Robyn Porterfield have more than 30 years of consulting experience between them, helping business leaders improve and sustain results. For the last five years, they've helped bring out the best in TREC's Associate Leadership Council...

On this episode of TRECcast, we chat with Cornerstone Baptist Church Pastor Chris Simmons and Program Director Donald Wesson about the church's role in the Dallas Catalyst Project! Throughout the summer, we'll be checking in with the DCP's partner organizations in the Forest District community and letting you know how you can get involved.

On this episode of TRECcast, we chat with Stantec’s Stephanie Laughlin about her experiences in the Associate Leadership Council and Fellowship of Executive Leaders programs. Plus – our midyear membership pricing offer returns July 1!

On this episode of TRECcast, we’re bringing you a replay of our May 14 Market Matters event on the future of retail. Moderated by D CEO’s Christine Perez, the event featured two panel discussions about repurposing existing retail developments (panelists: Frank Mihalopoulos of Corinth Properties, Amanda Moreno-Lake of Jim Lake Properties, and Herb Weitzman of Weitzman) and prognosticating the ever-...

On this episode of TRECcast, we're wrapping up our 'Technology of Placemaking' series with an interview with Eden Founder and CEO Joe Du Bey! Joe was a panelist during our April 3 Bank of Texas Speaker Series event and talked to us about how Eden is striving to be a one-stop-shop for building, tenant, and office needs! TRECcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher and Goog...

On this episode of TRECcast, we’re continuing our “Technology of Placemaking” series with Gabrielle McMillan, CEO of Equiem! Gabrielle was a panelist during our April 3 Bank of Texas Speaker Series and chatted with us about how Equiem is using tech and big data to fill tenant needs. TRECcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher and Google Play. Follow The Real Estate Counc...

On this episode of TRECcast, we're continuing our "Technology of Placemaking" series with Arie Barendrecht, founder and CEO of WiredScore! Arie was a panelist during our April 3 Bank of Texas Speaker Series and talked to us following the event about how WiredScore empowers landlords to understand, improve, and promote their buildings' digital infrastructure.

On this episode of TRECcast, we’re continuing our "Technology of Placemaking" series with Leah Alexander, national launch manager at Industrious! Leah was a panelist during our April 3 Bank of Texas Speaker Series and sat down with us following the event to talk about how Industrious, with locations in nearly 30 cities, is working to optimize the coworking office experience for companies. Over the...

On this episode of TRECcast, we’re kicking off our “Technology of Placemaking” series! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be interviewing the panelists from our April 3 Bank of Texas Speaker Series: The Technology of Placemaking about the rise of tech in building management, from coworking spaces and efficient IT support and internet connectivity, to one-stop-shop services for tenant and building need...

On this episode of TRECcast, we chat with TREC Community Fund Chair Kate Cavanaugh of Stewart Title about the ongoing Real Estate 101 Bootcamp program, the recently wrapped CRE Accelerator program, and working with JPMorgan Chase as part of the financial services giant’s PRO Neighborhoods grant program! Follow The Real Estate Council on Facebook (@therealestatecouncil), Twitter (@trecdallas), and...

On this edition of TRECcast, we’re recapping last month’s RECsTX Lobby Day with TREC Public Policy Chair Gerald Dunn of Benchmark Title! Gerald talks to us about what exactly the RECsTX Lobby Day is, TREC’s relationship with the state’s other real estate councils, and the issues our members lobbied for while in Austin. Subscribe to TRECcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher and Goog...

On today’s episode of TRECcast, we’re bringing you a replay of our November 2018 Bank of Texas Speaker Series event, “Community Impact Through Collaboration!” Moderated by Brendan Miniter of the Dallas Morning News, the panel discussion featured Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall, Lyda Hill and Nicole Small of the Lyda Hill Foundation, and Aleta Stampley of Capital One. Their conversation focused o...

On this edition of TRECcast, we chat with Casino Night Chair Eliza Bachhuber (CBRE) about the upcoming Young Guns event! This year’s festivities will include a New Orleans/Mardi Gras-style theme with proceeds benefiting the Young Guns Foundation Project as part of the Dallas Catalyst Project! Eliza also reminds us that the early-bird ticket sales period for Casino Night -- $80 for members and $100...

On this episode of TRECcast, we chat with Christopher Leinberger, chairman of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at the George Washington University School of Business! Leinberger recently headlined our first Bank of Texas Speaker Series event of the year in which he debuted his WalkUP Wake-Up study on urban walkability in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The study argues that while Dallas...

On this edition of TRECcast, we sit down with BOKA Powell Principal-in-Charge Don Powell! This is the final episode of our ‘Transportation Revolution’ podcast series, also sponsored by BOKA Powell, and we talked about the effects that emerging transportation technologies will have on parking. We covered topics like gauging parking requirements for forthcoming real estate developments, whether DFW...

On this edition of TRECcast, we brought together two longtime TREC leaders for a very special fireside chat! A week before Christmas, we sat down with 2019 Chairman Jim Knight of Stantec and Past Chairman Ran Holman of Cushman & Wakefield for a wide-ranging conversation about leadership, goal-setting and philanthropy as well as TREC-centric topics like the Dallas Catalyst Project, the JPMorgan Cha...

On this edition of TRECcast, we return to the North Central Texas Council of Governments and chat with Kevin Feldt, program manager for transportation planning. We talked about what makes Dallas an ideal test city for emerging transportation technologies, how integrating tech like hyperloop and vertiport could impact the city’s ongoing transportation initiatives, and whether Dallas could be growin...

Happy New Year from TRECcast! On today's episode, we chat with Tom Bamonte of the North Central Texas Council of Governments (or NCTCOG)about the challenges that await our transportation infrastructure as new technologies emerge. Tom is a senior program manager for NCTCOG specializing in automated vehicle pilot programs, regional data infrastructure for automated vehicles and issues related to tra...

We have a very special holiday surprise for you! Today’s edition of TRECcast is a replay of our October 24 Market Matters event, our annual Capital Markets Summit. Featuring an opening keynote by HFF CEO Mark Gibson, our panel of experts offered their 2019 projections in office, industrial, multi-family and retail. Our panel was moderated by Grant Thornton’s Greg Ross and consisted of Gables Resid...

In this edition of TRECcast, another installment of our “Transportation Revolution” series sponsored by BOKA Powell, we chat with Stantec’s Rod Schebesch, who joined our Bank of Texas Speaker Series panel back in September. We spoke with Rod about the future of autonomous vehicles and whether Dallas has the necessary infrastructure to support them. Rod has spent his career designing and building t...

On this episode of TRECcast, we chat with Dallas Catalyst Project Chair Mike Geisler of Venture Commercial Real Estate! Mike stopped by the office to talk about the first year of the Dallas Catalyst Project, how TREC Foundation and its three community partner organizations came together to collaborate on the DCP, and how you can get involved with our plans in Year Two! We also launched a new Dalla...

On this episode of TREccast, we chat with Michael Kaiser of The Beck Group! Michael was one of the lead designers on Beck’s submission to UBER Elevate for its vertiport system as well as a panelist during our Bank of Texas Speaker Series: Transportation Revolution program back in September. In our conversation, we talk about changing transportation infrastructure needs in Dallas, the inspiration b...

In this edition of TRECcast, we chat with CBRE’s Jack Fraker on what it takes to ‘Rise to the Top!’ Fraker was a panelist during our Young Guns Rising to the Top networking event in November, and he stopped by the TREC offices to talk about his career, what he looks for when hiring commercial real estate professionals, and how he navigated the Great Recession of the last decade. Fraker has been pa...

On this episode of TRECcast, we talk to AECOM’s Steven Duong about hyperloop! Steven was a panelist during September’s Bank of Texas Speaker Series: Transportation Revolution, and we talk about how to develop infrastructure for technology that doesn’t exist yet, the role regulation will play in hyperloop’s rollout, and how getting from Downtown Dallas to Austin in under 20 minutes will change the...