Real Perspectives Podcast

Today we sit down with Tim Schoen, the President and CEO of BioMed Realty, the leading provider of real estate solutions for the life science and technology industries. Tim has been BioMed’s CEO since 2016, when he joined the company following its acquisition by Blackstone Group. Tim brought to BioMed years of commercial real estate experience from Healthpeak and Kilroy Realty Corporation. He curr...

Manny Fishman is a shareholder in the San Francisco office of Buchalter, where he focuses his practice on representing real estate developers and owners in the acquisition, sale and financing of commercial properties. In addition, he has an active leasing practice representing owners of several major office buildings in San Francisco, as well as tenants in lease and sublease transactions.  Manny a...

Today, we are speaking with Jake McKinstry and Gabriel Grant. Both are principals with Seattle-based Spectrum Development Solutions. Founded in 2008, Spectrum is a mission-driven for-profit real estate development and advisory company. The company has a diverse, cross-sector focus spanning workforce housing, student housing, healthcare and civic-oriented projects. All of their projects have a stro...

Eric Foster is the Chief Executive Officer of Swinerton, a San Francisco-based construction company that today is in 17 offices across 8 states. The company was founded in 1888, and Eric is the company’s only 11th CEO since its founding 132 years ago. Eric joined Swinerton in 1982 as a Project Engineer for the San Francisco Structural division after graduating from the University of California, Be...

Cynthia Parker is President & CEO of BRIDGE Housing, a leading San Francisco-based nonprofit developer, owner and manager of affordable housing. Ms. Parker brings over 30 years of relevant experience to BRIDGE, including establishing the Housing Office of the City of Seattle and serving as the City’s Director of Housing under two separate mayors. Under Ms. Parker’s leadership at BRIDGE Housing...

Bill Condon & Matt McGregor lead the industrial leasing efforts at Colliers Seattle, where Bill is also the Managing Director of the office. The industrial market is poised to be one of the winners coming out of the economic collapse of early 2020, and Bill & Matt provide an insider's look into the drivers of this sector of commercial real estate.

Elizabeth Hart and Michael Saign are both Vice Chairman with Newmark Knight Frank's offices in San Francisco and San Jose, respectively. We sit down with these two industry leaders to get a close look into the transforming world of Bay Area commercial real estate at the start of 2020. Most importantly, we asked them to contrast the two submarkets and help us understand the drivers of the industry...

Reid Thomas is Executive Vice President and General Manager of San Jose's NES Financial’s Specialty Financial Administration, focusing on technology-enabled EB-5, 1031 and Opportunity Zone fund administration. NES announced earlier this month that it had entered into an acquisition agreement with JTC, a UK-based provider of fund, corporate and private client services to institutional and private c...

In his 40 years in commercial real estate, Ed Del Beccaro, has seen it all. Today Ed is the East Bay Regional Manager for the TRI Commercial offices located in Walnut Creek and Oakland. The East Bay brokerage operation is full-service with office, industrial, retail, multi-family and investment sales. In addition to brokerage, Ed aims to grow East Bay property management to complement TRI's Sacram...

We sit down with John McNellis, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based commercial real estate developer who made waves early in the coronavirus days by taking a compassionate approach for some of his smaller retail tenants. With the impact of the pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe, we wanted to see how his gesture was received, if it motivated other landlords to do the same and overall, how he has percei...