All eyes will be on Downtown Kansas City next week as area business leaders gather to explore the future of commercial office space for the 4th Annual 2020 Downtown KC Office Summit on November 10, 2020.
Highlighting this year’s program will be a briefing by CBRE’s Spencer Levy, considered an icon by many of global commercial real estate, along with four Downtown business leaders who are on the cutting edge of commercial office planning for today and tomorrow.
The briefing will be a return engagement for Levy, after earning rave reviews as the Office Summit’s keynote speaker in 2019.
The online event will celebrate the dramatic progress in the Downtown office marketplace to date on many fronts, including:
● Waddell & Reed’s decision to relocate its headquarters to a new, 260,000-SF location in the Central Business District of Downtown
● SafetyCulture, an Australian company, who moved its North American headquarters to the Crossroads Arts District of Downtown
● Loews Kansas City Hotel, who opened its spectacular 800-room, 23-story convention hotel across the street from the Kansas City Convention Center in Downtown KC
The 2020 Downtown Office Summit will feature outstanding business leaders who share their Downtown insights and strategies, along with visions for tomorrow, including:
● Quinton Lucas, Mayor of City of Kansas City, Mo
● Spencer Levy, chairman, America’s Research & senior economic advisor, CBRE
● Suzanne Dimmel, chair, Downtown Office Summit; director, Cushman & Wakefield Kansas City
● Mike Klamm, chair, Downtown Council Business Attraction committee; managing director, CBRE
● Vince Bryant, founder and developer, 3D Development
● Parag Chitnis, acting director, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
● Kim McDonald, vice president of people, Spring Venture Group
● Shelley White, reinsurance operational excellence lead / managing director, Swiss Re Group
“The Downtown Council is committed to creating a stronger, more prosperous, and more resilient downtown for the 21st century,” said Bill Dietrich, president and CEO of the Downtown Council of Kansas City.
Click here to register. For more information, contact Julie Shippy at jules@downtownkc.org.