Lets Have A Drink (new York)

Doug Steiner talks producing content in a pandemic, his next venture and why film and tv studio real estate is not for the faint hearted.

In this episode, Bisnow reporter Kelsey Neubauer talks about her reporting on virus outbreaks at e-commerce distribution centers and the worker walkouts that may be setting the stage for a new labor movement.

Architect and professor Vishaan Chakrabarti talks about the idea of banning private cars in Manhattan, what it would take to get it done and why he thinks it would increase, not reduce, the real estate values.

In this episode, we hear from Angele Robinson-Gaylord, the President of North America Real Estate Cluster at Ikea Group. She is speaking here about the company's workplace culture, her experiences as an African American woman in commercial real estate and the furniture giant's pivot from box retail to smaller concept stores.

Lendlease Executive General Manager of New York Development Melissa Burch speaks here about landing a construction loan during the pandemic and how New York should reinvent itself after the crisis. The companies recently secured $250M in construction financing for the project, and Burchs is spoke on the podcast about inking the deal in the middle of the pandemic crisis in New York City.

On this week's episode, we hear from Jospeh Ferrara, a principal at BFC Partners. His firm is the developer behind Empire Outlets, a brand new outlet mall on the Staten Island waterfront. He speaks here about switching to percentage rent, leasing in a pandemic and making shoppers feel safe.

Bisnow Bay Area Reporter Dean Boerner talks here about where the reopening is impacting real estate, how worried landlords are about technology companies going to remote work and the drop off in San Francisco apartment rents. 

In this episode, Alicia Glen, the former New York City deputy mayor of housing and economic development who has just launched her own real estate development and investment firm MSquared. She speaks here about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to getting housing built, the future of New York City after the crisis -- and the types of leadership that might be needed to get it there.

In this episode, Cedric Bobo, who runs Projected Destined, a social impact platform that aims to offer young people the training they need to break into the real estate industry. He’s speaking here about the importance of ownership, building real estate’s next pipeline of talent and why real estate companies need to look at their diversity metrics to make meaningful change.

BOS Development Managing Partner Beatrice Sibblies speaks about being a woman of color in real estate, talking to her daughter about the death of George Floyd and what she’s telling people who ask "what can I do?".

Bisnow’s Atlanta reporter, Jarred Schenke, about the boom-and-bust nature of Georgia’s capital, the state’s reopening, how the local studios are hoping to get back to work and how the office market could be affected by a work-from-home push.

In this week’s episode, we hear from Ryan Simonetti, the CEO of Convene. The RXR Realty and Brookfield-backed company, which has both flexible workspaces and an events and meeting arm, was forced to lay off and furlough hundreds of employees as a result of the crisis. He is speaking here about future of meetings in the world of social distancing and his take on when people will gather in large groups again.

In this episode, we speak to Margaret Anadu, the head of Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group. In New York, Urban Investment Group is one of the groups behind Essex Crossing -- a six-acre, mixed-use development with retail, office and more than 1,000 new homes on the Lower East Side. Here, she talks about getting capital to small businesses, what kind of impact this virus will have on the development of workforce and affordable housing in the United States and why she’s eager to get back to the office.

In this episode, Corcoran CEO Pamela Liebman talks about New York City bouncing back, negotiating between buyers and sellers during the pandemic and why she thinks residential prices won't be hit as much as they were in the fallout of 9/11.