Over the years we’ve had the opportunity to feature many of the region’s leading real
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professionals. To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we brought them back together to find out what changes they have seen in the industry. Here’s what they had to say...
What is your single most current challenge today? Barbara Donaldson: Effectively managing a global portfolio in a growing organization requires long-term real estate strategies that incorporate flexibility and manageable risk. Coupling this with understanding of the regional staffing needs, and aligning all of these resources with the businesses overall objectives is a challenge but also a great opportunity. Frank Jesse: Acquiring and developing strategically appropriate sites at reasonable costs. Market forces, combined with reduced availability of useable real estate inventory, combines to make site acquisition extraordinarily challenging. Dan Stanbery: Densification of the campus high-density rack labs and data centers. Jana Gunsul: Keeping up with the pace of technological change. Trying to see what the next five years look like and positioning DES to be market leaders then. Joe Garcia: Space continues to be a challenge. With emerging product, brings new talent. We continue to improve our space to accommodate increased headcount. John Lucas: Aligning the real estate needs and cost structure of the real estate with the companies’ financial goals. Ray Purpur: Keeping up with technology in our public assembly venues. The fans want to have full access to their mobile devices and keep up with social media. We have to meet that challenge with a robust wifi and DAS system in all of our sports venues. Sharon Refvem: The single biggest challenge we face today is keeping our eyes on the reality of climate change, what that will mean for our region and beyond and what we can do to effect positive change. | continued on page 28 | From L to R: Rob Steinberg/Steinberg Architects, John Scouffas/Gensler Architects, Barbara Donaldson/Synopsis, Craig Sheehy/ 26 BAY AREA building MANAGEMENT GUIDE WINTER 2013 Envision Realty Services, Rich Sotelo/SAP Center, Ray Purpur/Stanford University Athletics, Dan Stanbery/Cisco, Jeff Fini/Alfa Tech
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