NAIOP Podcast: Inside CRE
Inside CRE features interviews with commercial real estate leaders who share industry and career insights. NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, is the development industry’s leading source for education, advocacy and connections that drive your business forward. Inside CRE is brought to you by CLA.
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Episodes
34 episodes
Scott Jennings, CNN
Scott Jennings started his political career licking envelopes in a campaign office but went on to work for campaigns at both the local and national level, including four presidential campaigns. The CNN senior conservative political commentator ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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35:29
Phil Mobley, CoStar
As the national director for office analytics, Phil Mobley leads the development of CoStar's house view of the office market. In this episode, he examines the office sector from every angle, highlighting the misconception of a simple “flight to...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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43:32
Lawrence Armstrong, Ware Malcomb
Artist. Architect. Chairman. Philanthropist. Author. Lawrence Armstrong, chairman of leading international design firm Ware Malcomb, joined the firm nearly 40 years ago and served as CEO from 1992 to 2020. In addition to expanding the company f...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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22:07
Shannon O’Neil, Council on Foreign Relations
Is the era of tariff-free goods on the North American continent coming to an end? Shannon O’Neil, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of “The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter,” join...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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22:19
Alex Thomson, 2025 NAIOP Chair
Opening our third season of Inside CRE, Christopher Ware, NAIOP’s Vice President for Business Development and Strategic Initiatives, speaks with Alex Thomson, founder of Prevail Consultants and 2025 NAIOP Chair. With two decades of experience i...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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47:56
2025 Legislative Priorities, Policies and Realities
Aquiles Suarez, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at NAIOP, has the considerable task of overseeing the association’s advocacy efforts at the federal, state and local level, and managing the association’s political action committee, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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36:47
Nikki Greenberg, Real Estate Futurist
Generational changes happening now are creating a fundamental shift in our society and the way people live and work, says Nikki Greenberg, a world-leading futurist focused on the trends and technologies shaping cities of the future. She joins N...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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30:11
David C. Smith, Cushman & Wakefield
David C. Smith is the head of Americas insights for the Cushman & Wakefield global think tank. He joins the podcast and puts in a pitch for the office sector, which he said is experiencing a reckoning similar to the “retail apocalypse” that...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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34:41
Brian Natwick, Crescent Communities
Brian Natwick, Chairman and CEO of Crescent Communities, our 2024 Developer of the Year, joins guest host Kathryn Hamilton, NAIOP’s vice president for marketing and communications, for this episode. “At the end of the day, real estate is an exp...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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33:56
Carey Heyman, CLA
Carey Heyman, CPA and managing principal of the real estate industry at CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), joins us this time on the NAIOP podcast with guest host Christopher Ware, NAIOP’s Vice President for Business Development and Strategic Initiative...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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40:48
Peter Cocoziello and Scarlett Miller, Penn State University
Get to know two special guests who lead the Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation at Penn State. Peter Cocoziello is the founder, president and CEO of Advance Realty Investors, a New Jersey-based real estate development, investment and...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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39:10
The Las Vegas Experience Economy
In advance of NAIOP’s largest annual conference, CRE.Converge, Oct. 8-10 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, hear from two seasoned CRE pros working in the region. Cassie Catania-Hsu, managing director and market leader for Las Vegas, CBRE, and Julie ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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35:51
Erin McDannald, Elevated
Erin McDannald, CEO of Elevated, started working with data centers back in 1998 during the dot-com boom, so she’s seen the sector evolve over decades. She joins podcast guest host Jennifer LeFurgy, Ph.D., NAIOP’s vice president of knowledge and...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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28:05
Greg Lindsay, Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab
An author, futurist and senior advisor to the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, Greg Lindsay guides institutions such as NATO and the United States Secret Service in identifying, disrupting, and mitigating future threats. He joins the...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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30:12
Spencer Levy, CBRE
Spencer Levy is global client strategist and senior economic advisor at CBRE, the largest commercial real estate services firm in the world. He studies statistics in his free time, so he was happy to offer his analysis on the ripple effects com...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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41:43
Sean Burton, Cityview
As CEO of Cityview, named the most active multifamily developer in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal for the past four years, Sean Burton stays busy. He joins the podcast with our guest host, NAIOP Vice President of Knowledge and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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31:19
Christine Cooper, CoStar Group
As managing director and chief U.S. economist at CoStar Group, Christine Cooper, Ph.D., provides insights and analysis of national and regional macroeconomic conditions across the nation. She joined the podcast to share CoStar’s near-term...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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35:23
Rebecca Rockey, Cushman & Wakefield
Can we stick the “soft landing”? Rebecca Rockey, Deputy Chief Economist and Global Head of Forecasting at Cushman & Wakefield, joi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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42:46
Chris Cillizza, Political Commentator and Journalist
Political commentator and journalist Chris Cillizza spent four years as an editor at large at CNN and regularly appeared as a political analyst on...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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28:54
Rafael McCadden, Colliers International
Nearshoring expert Rafael McCadden joins the podcast to share his outlook on how industrial real estate in Mexico has evolved and continues to expand. Projected to attract $35 bil...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:42
Brian Walker, Burns Scalo Real Estate
Our 2024 NAIOP Chair Brian Walker, president of Pittsburgh-based Burns Scalo Real Estate, kicks off season two of the Inside CRE podcast. Brian shares his goals for the year (and the headwinds to fight through), why “operating brilliantly...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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42:01
Nicholas Pell, Link Logistics
Nicholas Pell sees the big picture – he has to. As president and chief investment officer for Link Logistics, formed by Blackstone in 2019, he is responsi...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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36:40
Peter Zeihan, Geopolitical Strategist
Peter Zeihan has an uncanny ability to predict tomorrow's headlines. The geopolitical strategist talked with guest host Christopher Ware, NAIOP’s vice president for business development and strategic initiatives, on current U.S. demograph...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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55:55