CREDA Podcast: Inside CRE

Marc sits down with Richard Branch, chief economist at Dodge Construction Network, a leading source of data analytics and insights on the commercial construction industry. Branch has us time-travel to the peak of the office market in 1985 (when the tax code allowed for extended depreciation); shares the latest data from Dodge on office renovation projects; and explores the link between the office...

Dana Peterson, chief economist and center leader for economy, strategy and finance at The Conference Board, joined our guest host Christopher Ware, NAIOP’s vice president for business development and strategic initiatives. Peterson – who delivered keynote remarks at I.CON East this year – paints a broad macroeconomic picture, discussing the implications of the recent regional bank failures; deglob...

The exceptionally upbeat Rhonda Payne, workforce equity advisor and DEI educator, founder and CEO of Flock Theory, talks to Marc about avoiding “the ostrich approach” to measuring workforce diversity, offers straightforward explanations of equity and equality, and shares the philosophies that often guide DEI initiatives (for better or worse). Payne acknowledges how difficult it can be for companie...

Amid a volatile economy where recession predictions abound, Marc talks with Rebecca Rockey, economist and global head of economic analysis and forecasting at Cushman & Wakefield. Rockey shares her outlook for the next 6-12 months, with lows (“warning signs are going off”), highs (industrial’s supercharged returns), and in between (the trifurcated office market). Rockey addresses whether the Fe...

A conversation on the state of the global economy is bound to cover a lot of ground. Marc talks with Reva Goujon, a geopolitical strategist and director at Rhodium Group, about current inflationary drivers, shifting trade partnerships, increased tech regulation, and China’s structural slowdown, which will have worldwide impact. She offers insights for the commercial real estate industry, including...

Marc continues his conversation with Kate Nolan Bryden, senior vice president at MRP Industrial, and Celeste Tanner, president and chief development officer of Confluent Development. The group talks talent recruitment and retention (“We need to show them how much fun we’re having!”), some of the flawed logic out there on talent development, and which area is the number-one place companies can’t co...

Marc is joined by Kate Nolan Bryden, senior vice president at MRP Industrial, and Celeste Tanner, president and chief development officer of Confluent Development. Bryden and Tanner share how they’ve seen the CRE industry evolve since the start of their careers, their approaches to managing divergent teams, and the challenges that come with an industry “stuck at a one-percent rate of innovation ov...

Marc talks with Kim Snyder, president of the U.S. West Region for Prologis, the largest commercial real estate developer in the U.S., and 2023 NAIOP Chair. Kim and his team cover some of the hottest industrial markets in the country, including Southern California, the Inland Empire, Las Vegas and Phoenix. In this episode, Marc and Kim dive into challenges for the industrial sector, inflation press...