(front row, left to right)
David Hickman, CB Richard Ellis
Mitch Truster, Beauty Brands

Jeff Berg, LANE4 Property Group
Gail Lozoff, Spin! Neapolitan Pizza

Joe Platt, Grandbridge Real Estate Capital
David Block, Block & Co. Real Estate

Dan Lowe, RED Development (Co-chair, Co-sponsor and Host)
Joe Sweeney, Ingram's Magazine

(back row, left to right)

Ed Brownell, Spin! Pizza
Chase Simmons, Polsinelli Shughart (Co-chair and Co-sponsor)

Bob Johnson, R.H. Johnson Co.

Jeff Haney, RED Development

Owen Buckley, LANE4 Property Group (Co-chair and Co-sponsor)

Dave Claflin, RED Development

Jerry White, Grubb & Ellis/The Winbury Group

John Rubenstein, Rubenstein Real Estate

Mike Downing, Missouri Department of Economic Development

Retail is Finding its Way in Changing Marketplace

On one of the last soft days of autumn, a spirited group of retail developers, retailers, attorneys and mortgage bankers met in the conference room of RED Development in the heart of the Country Club Plaza to discuss the state of retail in greater Kansas City.

Co-chairing the group were Dan Lowe, managing partner of RED, Owen Buckley, president of Lane4 Property Group, and Chase Simmons, a shareholder of the law firm Polsinelli Shughart. Their respective organizations sponsored this 10th annual commercial real estate assembly in Ingram’s Industry Outlook series.

For all the economic doom and gloom of the last two years, little of it surfaced in this assembly. To a person, those gathered have proved to be strategically astute, and they remain stubbornly optimistic about the future of retail real estate.