Bay Area Developer Forum

The Registry (October 14, 2021) There is perhaps just one group of commercial real estate professionals that is more perennially optimistic about the state of the market than the brokers — the developers. In this month’s Bay Area Developer Forum webinar, we interviewed four of them, spanning office, residential, life science and mixed-use projects, and it was clear that while the risks of the pandemic have not subsided entirely, signs of an active, and actively expanding, market are all visible. The web event was hosted by a trio of industry leaders: Allen Matkins, a California-based law firm specializing in real estate; Longfellow, a growing national life science developer and property owner; and Saint-Gobain | Sage Glass, an international construction and development firm with deep roots in the commercial real estate space and also an industry leader and manufacturer of electrochromic glass that tints automatically. Allen Matkins partner, Mark Hartney, who specializes in construction contracts, land use, litigation & counseling and real estate disputes, among other areas, led the conversation and moderated the panel that included: Peter Fritz of Longfellow (life science), Trece Herder of Brookfield Residential, Connor Kidd of Swig (commercial office) and Mollie Ricker, partner at Dostart Development (mixed-use and office). Read More.