What You Need to Know
A Gift That Will Unlock Hidden Real Estate Value
Ellen Sinreich and the New York Asset Management Roundtable hosted a lively presentation of Ellen’s Black Box strategies for minimizing the time, cost and risk of getting retail, office and industrial leases over the finish line.
New Urban Housing in Greater New York
Ellen Sinreich and ULI NY presented a ground-breaking program about a new generation of high-design, mixed-income, multi-scale residential projects that is being developed in a variety of NYC neighborhoods.
Letters of Intent for Commercial Leases
Ellen Sinreich participated in a panel discussion during the New York Law School Rooftops Conference on the do’s and don’ts of letters of intent for NYC commercial leases. Transfers and guarantees were two of the…
Selected Issues in Shopping Center Transactions
Ellen Sinreich participated in an in-depth discussion of the legal and operational issues that are unique to shopping center transactions. Issues ranged from the impact of omni-channel retailing to coordinating use restrictions.
Do’s & Don’ts of Tenant Improvement Allowances
Ellen Sinreich co-chaired a peer-to-peer workshop on tenant improvement allowances at the 2017 ICSC Law Conference. The discussion focused on leasehold strategies that will help landlords and tenants avoid pitfalls.
Shopping Centers: Legal/Operational Issues
As part of the Practising Law Institute’s 18th Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute, Ellen Sinreich participated in a discussion of the current issues unique to shopping centers, including the impact of technology and terrorism.
Detroit: Past, Present and Future
ULI presented a fascinating look at the transformation of Detroit from a failing metropolitan area to a city on the rebound. We learned first-hand about the changes taking place from developers, business owners, lenders and public officials…
Queens Beyond the Waterfront
NYC’s outer boroughs are booming and many are looking to Queens for its development opportunities. Central Queens, from LGA to JFK along the Van Wyck corridor has become the center of much of the expansion.
Urban vs Suburban Retail
The NY Operations Committee of ICSC presented a panel discussion about the pros and cons of developing and investing in urban vs suburban retail projects. Topics included differences in costs, design, operational efficiencies, and…
Ten Ways to Increase Revenues and Cut Costs
Ellen Sinreich co-presented a workshop at the ICSC 2015 Law Conference about how retail landlords can increase revenues and cut costs. Strategies for increasing efficiencies and minimizing waste across a wide…
Penalty or Remedy: Co-Tenancy Clauses
Ellen Sinreich was a panelist at an American Bar Association webinar about the recent California Court of Appeals decision on the enforceability of so-called “co-tenancy clauses” in retail leases.
RetailGreen 2014: The Value of Green Leases
Ellen Sinreich led an interactive boardroom session on the value of green leases at ICSC’s RetailGreen conference. Ellen and the participants focused on how to overcome the “split-incentive” disincentive so that…
Energy, Money & Law
At the upcoming Energy, Money & Law event, my co-panelists and I will be discussing how re-structuring traditional legal relationships can pave the way to financing large-scale energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
RECon Academy 2014: The New Green Lease Program
Ellen Sinreich led a program for real estate professionals on how to create a financial framework for greening multi-tenant retail properties at this global retail real estate conference. The ICSC Green Study Lease (which she prepared)…
Entrepreneurs in Real Estate: One Woman's Story
Ellen Sinreich co-chaired this installment of the Women’s Leadership Initiative Speaker Series featuring Abby Hamlin, Founder and President of Hamlin Ventures and faculty member of Columbia University’s School of Architecture.
University of Shopping Centers at the Wharton School of Business
Ellen Sinreich returned to Wharton to teach the New Green Lease Paradigm for Tenants and Landlords, where she educated retail real estate professionals about how landlords and tenants can work together to green multi-tenant retail properties.