The Build Up

The Build Up - NAREE edition

Episode Summary

Kirk and Arielle traveled to Atlanta for the annual National Association of Real Estate Editors conference and discuss the top concerns among residential and commercial real estate players. They also pull aside Mason Ailstock, chief executive officer of the Rowan Foundation, a business innovation triangle in metropolitan Atlanta, to see what lessons he's learned in the building of the project and what advice he has for the Detroit innovation districts.

Episode Notes

1:20 - Housing shortage issues and questions of a new recession

2:45 - The state of the office market 

4:05 - Converting office space into residential

7:00 - A glut of office space in the suburbs

8:05 - Rising rents 

9:00 - An example from Calgary

11:05 - What happens when office leases start to come up

15:25 - The interview with Mason Ailstock begins