About this Event
As Shanghai re-emerges from COVID-19 lockdown after two months, it presents another case study in how a major metropolitan area attempts to return to a semblance of normalcy. Across the globe, cities have been returning to work at their own pace, with office buildings filling up once again (or not) due to locality-specific regulations, company policies, and workers’ desires.
In Asia, Shanghai is in its nascent stage of easing restrictions. On the other hand, Singapore has kept a steady pace of re-opening, from relaxing regulations on foreign travel to phasing out the limit on the percentage of employees that companies can allow back to the office. Across the Pacific in Los Angeles, office buildings are open and ready for workers, but remain sparsely populated.
What do these cities, with their varied stages of safety protocols and attitudes toward the return to the office, mean for the future of commercial real estate? Join Asia Society Southern California for its latest U.S.-Asia Real Estate webinar program, featuring experts on the subject from Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. The program will begin with a fireside chat with Shui On Group founder and ASSC 2021 “Real Estate Visionary” Vincent Lo, who will provide his insight on the topic from the perspective of both mainland China and Hong Kong. The fireside chat will be followed by a panel discussion including Jeffrey Bramson, Senior Managing Director and co-head of the Los Angeles office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas, Michael Kenderes, Vice President of Real Estate at McKinsey & Company, and James Macdonald, Head of China Research at Savills. Richard Green, Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate will moderate both conversations.
This program is hosted in partnership with the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and AmCham Shanghai. It is part of ASSC’s U.S.-Asia Real Estate Initiative (USAREI), which was launched in May 2020, in collaboration with the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. USAREI is a comprehensive, multi-year initiative to promote a deeper understanding of real estate issues that are of shared importance to Southern California and urban areas in Asian countries, and is underwritten by OUE, a prominent Singapore-based real estate development firm.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
US Bank Tower, 633 W 5th Street, Los Angeles, United States
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