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Chris Frampton is the CEO of East West Partners. East West Partners is devoted to building, selling, managing and supporting high-quality real estate and life experiences with a focus on innovation, sustainability and community. Since 1986, the firm has developed and sold over $7 billion of residential and commercial real estate across the country. East West Partners is one of only two companies to have received three Urban Land Institute Awards for Excellence for their projects – Beaver Creek Village in Beaver Creek, Co; and Union Station Neighborhood and Riverfront Park, both in Denver.

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The start of East West Partners and its growth from a small project in Beaver Creek into a national development platform

Riverfront Park and the transformation of downtown Denver through large-scale placemaking

The $1B+ development of Snowmass Base Village and the challenges of ski resort construction

Repositioning of 71 Wentworth in Charleston

East West’s investment and risk philosophy

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Andrew Kadish is the Chief Executive Officer of CAPREIT, a vertically-integrated multifamily company responsible for the ownership and management of more than 15,000 apartment homes across the continental United States. 

The Company’s careful management and thoughtful guidance through some of the industry’s most difficult times – the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management crisis, the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic – created a foundation and instilled a resiliency that few others in the industry can match. As a result, CAPREIT boasts some of the most long-standing and solid relationships in the industry. CAPREIT is and has always been a company with whom others want to do business.

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Dr. Peter Linneman is a Principal of Linneman Associates, KL Realty, and American Land Funds, and is the Albert Sussman Emeritus Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Business Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of Wharton's faculty for 32 years, founding Wharton's Real Estate Department and the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center. He is the founding co-editor of The Wharton Real Estate Review and has published over 80 articles during his career. 

Dr. Linneman is widely recognized as a leading strategic thinker and investor, and has been cited as one of the 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate by Realtor Magazine, and one of the 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate by the New York Observer. He is a highly sought-after speaker, appearing as the keynote speaker at numerous major industry conferences. 

For more than three decades Dr. Peter Linneman has been a critical influence in driving the professionalization of real estate capital markets and the commercial real estate industry. Thousands of global and regional real estate investment professionals look to Linneman Associates’ insights each quarter through subscriptions to The Linneman Letter.

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Compilation Episode

0:00 - 14:42 Francis J. Greenburger | Chairman & CEO, Time Equities Inc. Episode 47 

- The Evolution of 50West: Underwriting, Financing, Marketing, Sales, Rentals

14:44 -  21:00 Richard Byrne | President, Benefit Street Partners Episode 48 

- Acquisition of Realty Finance Trust, a $700M commercial mortgage REIT at the time, which has grown to $6B and the 4th largest publicly traded mortgage REIT.

21:03 - 29:31 Matt Bronfman | CEO, Jamestown Episode 50 

- Securing the first tenant at Ponce City Market and the current renovation of One Times Square

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Mark Vitner is the Founder & Chief Economist of Piedmont Crescent Capital, a boutique economic consulting firm providing strategic insight on U.S. and regional economic conditions, financial markets, and geopolitics—with a focus on how these forces impact consumers, local economies, housing, and commercial real estate.

With more than 30 years of experience in economic analysis and forecasting, Mark previously served as Senior Economist at Wells Fargo and Wachovia, where he became one of the most respected voices on the Southeast and National economy. Today, through Piedmont Crescent Capital, he acts as a fractional economist for several companies, produces regular publications on real estate, consumer behavior, and small business trends, and speaks widely at corporate events and industry forums on topics ranging from inflation and monetary policy to regional growth and economic development.

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Building a 30-year career across Barnett Bank, First Union, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo

Inside the Wachovia acquisition by Wells Fargo during the 2008 financial crisis

Breaking down the Global Financial Crisis from an economist’s perspective

Launching Piedmont Crescent Capital to assist companies as their fraction economist

Current outlook on real estate, consumer spending, and regional growth

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Doug Lebda is the CEO & Founder of Lending Tree. LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE) is the nation's leading online marketplace that connects consumers with the choices they need to be confident in their financial decisions. LendingTree empowers consumers to shop for financial services the same way they would shop for airline tickets or hotel stays, by comparing multiple offers from a nationwide network of over 500 partners in one simple search and choosing the option that best fits their financial needs.

After experiencing the frustrations and complexities of getting his first mortgage, Doug envisioned a way to simplify the loan shopping process. Instead of physically going to multiple banks, customers could go to a website where the banks would compete for their business. That was 1996, and the website would become the one you’re reading right now.

After launching nationally in July 1998, Doug led LendingTree through a successful IPO in 2000, the dot-com meltdown of 2001 and a successful sale to IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2003. From 2005 to 2008, Doug served as IAC’s President and Chief Operating Officer, and in 2008, joined the newly formed Tree.com (rebranded as LendingTree) as it spun out from IAC as a separate public company.

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Matt Bronfman is a Principal and the Chief Executive Officer of Jamestown. Matt joined the company as General Counsel in 1998 before becoming Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer in 2002. He became CEO in 2012 and is responsible for managing Jamestown’s global operations and overseeing corporate strategy and execution. During his tenure, Jamestown has executed more than $40 billion in transactions, grown its portfolio of assets in the U.S., and expanded into Latin America and Europe. As of December 31, 2024, Jamestown has assets under management of $14.2 billion.

Matt has more than 30 years of experience in real estate and has led the acquisition and repositioning of many large scale-mixed use projects, including Chelsea Market and Industry City in New York City, Ponce City Market and Buckhead Village in Atlanta, Raleigh Iron Works in Raleigh, the Innovation and Design Building in Boston, and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.

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The origin story of Ponce City Market and how Jamestown turned an abandoned Sears warehouse into Atlanta’s cultural hub.

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David Hartzell is the Steven D. Bell and Leonard W. Wood Distinguished Professor of Finance & Real Estate as well as the Director of the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at University of North Carolina.

He also serves on the board of the UNC Real Estate Investment Fund, the real estate private equity fund that is managed by students in the real estate concentration at UNC Kenan-Flagler. 

He has worked with numerous companies on a consulting basis, notably Heitman Capital Management in Chicago, Citigroup, CB Richard Ellis, Weil Gottschall, Cornerstone Research, Henderson Asset Management (U.K.), PRA Securities, Heitman/JMB Advisory Corp., JMB Institutional Realty Corp., Salomon Brothers Inc., Prudential Real Estate Investors, American Council of Life Insurance, Travelers Realty Investment Corporation, GE Capital, Metropolitan Life and ABP (Dutch Public Employees Pension Fund).

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- https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/leonard-w-wood-center-for-real-estate-studies/

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Richard Byrne is President of Benefit Street Partners, as well as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Franklin BSP Capital Corp, Franklin BSP Realty Trust, Inc (NYSE: FBRT), and Benefit Street Partners Multifamily Trust.

Benefit Street Partners is a global alternative credit manager with ~$76 billion under management. The BSP team invests across the credit spectrum – from senior secured debt to subordinated debt, as well as both liquid and illiquid credit and seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.

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Francis J. Greenburger is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Time Equities Inc. Founded in 1966, Time Equities, Inc. (“TEI”) is a diversified investment, development, asset and property management, licensed real estate brokerage, and alternative energy company. The TEI portfolio includes approximately 43.2 million square feet of residential, industrial, office and retail property including about 5,000 multi-family apartment units, approximately 635,000 square feet in pending acquisitions, and 2.8 million square feet of various property types in stages of pre-development and development. 

With 342 properties across 36 states, five Canadian provinces, Anguilla, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scotland, the TEI portfolio benefits from a diversity of asset types including non-performing loans, B-notes, and alternative energy investments. 

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