Looking for backstories? Local Developer Interviews

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Hey Gang,
@dtraleigh confirmed that y’all might find two interviews interesting.

Looking for insight into big ideas and the thought process behind a 138-acre mixed-use development in Atlanta?
Check out my chat with Highwoods Properties EVP/COO, Brian Leary.

Looking to learn about the strategies involved in projects like Fenton, Waverly Place redevelopment, and the expansion at American Tobacco Campus?
Check out my interview with Paul Zarian, Managing Director for the Hines Carolinas office.

As always, let me know if you have any feedback or advice for making the show better!

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You know what would be something big? …Raleigh’s own Highwoods doing something big in Raleigh.

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That’s a good point. How do you define big?

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Develop one of their downtown parking lots.
That would be big.

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Yeah, have you seen the office market lately?

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There are options to only building office space. It’s happening all around their gravel lots.

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Not really for an office REIT :-/

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Well, that might be the excuse for today, but what about years past?

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My guess is it wasn’t seen as a good investment. Full disclosure, I used to work there.

What would you have developed in years past on one of their sites?

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Oh, I don’t know…literally anything?

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