Real estate today can be a lot different things to a lot of different people, especially for commercial real estate. This fact was the focus of the Convene Summit, “The Office of the Future”, held last Friday, October 29 in New York City. The summit was attended by nearly 450 professionals that included a wide range users and providers — a mix of commercial landlords, tenants, service providers, and just about everything in between, including many new types of landlords and services that are finding new ways to realize value in the physical places that we build.
Convene hosted the event in their newest space on 46th Street, one block east of Times Square, which served two valuable roles: one, as a great place to hold the conference, with all the necessary accoutrements (the food was awesome) and two, as an example of the type of services and spaces that are becoming available and building value in the commercial real estate market. The conference focused on exploring the concept of real estate as a service.