TRECcast

This episode of TRECcast is a replay of our Feb. 13 Bank of Texas Speaker Series conversation between Hillwood CEO Todd Platt and Las Vegas Sands President and COO/Dallas Mavericks Governor Patrick Dumont. During their talk, Dumont detailed the trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers as well as the new ownership group’s plans for the team and its desire to build a state-of-the-art hospitality, gaming, and entertainment hub in the DFW area. Special thanks to Speaker Series sponsors Bank of Texas, Stewart Title National Commercial Services, The Dallas Morning News-Medium Giant, the Dallas Mavericks, GlobalPro, HKS, and HRNCIR Construction.

On today’s show, we get a deep dive on “community land trusts,” or CLTs, with Jason Webb of Grounded Solutions Network. Over the last few years, TREC Community Investors has been hard at work developing the forthcoming Dallas Community Land Trust, and Jason and Grounded Solutions Network were instrumental in this effort. Subscribe to TRECcast on your favorite podcast app, follow TREC and TREC Community Investors on social media, and get your tickets for our March 4 Market Matters event at recouncil.com/upcoming-events.

On this episode of TRECcast, TREC Public Policy Chair Evan Beattie joins us to preview our 2025 public policy advocacy priorities! The GFF Chairman and CEO sat down with Jennifer Schmiel, Senior Director of The Real Estate Council, to discuss the 89th Texas Legislature, the upcoming Dallas City Council election, and the issues we'll be monitoring throughout the year. If you'd like to get involved with our public policy efforts this year, contact Jennifer at jschmiel@recouncil.com or go to recouncil.com/public-policy or recouncil.com/trec-pac.

On today's show, we sit down with 2025 TREC Chairman Rick Perdue! We talked about his priorities for the year, teaching real estate at SMU, his involvement with The Loop, and much more. If you are interested in getting involved with TREC PAC this year, please contact Jennifer Schmiel at jschmiel@recouncil.com.

On this episode of TRECcast, we sat down with South Dallas/Fair Park Innercity Community Development Corporation (ICDC) Founder Diane Ragsdale and Executive Director Billy Lane! We talked about the 2024 Young Guns project to renovate ICDC's headquarters as part of Dallas Catalyst Project: Mill City, as well as the history of the organization and how ICDC serves the Mill City community.

On this episode of TRECcast, JLL Capital Markets-Americas CEO Mark Gibson gives his annual capital markets forecast during our final Bank of Texas Speaker Series event of the year on Tuesday, November 12. Thank you to sponsors Bank of Texas, Stewart Title, GlobalPro, Southside Bank, Younger Partners, The Dallas Morning News-Medium Giant, Bob Moore Construction, CapRock Management Partners, and Republic Title. To request slides from Mark’s presentation, please contact Courtney Klingelberger (courtney.k@am.jll.com). For links mentioned in this episode, check out recouncil.com/podcast.

On this episode of TRECcast, TREC President & CEO Jamee Jolly discusses her return to the organization after serving as its director of policy and programs earlier in her career, as well as the challenges facing the commercial real estate industry entering 2025 and her memories of working to bring the Klyde Warren Park project to life.

This episode of TRECcast is a replay of our October 1 Bank of Texas Speaker Series conversation with Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall. The first Black female CEO of an NBA franchise sat down with Kris Lowe of JLL Capital Markets to tell stories about her life and career as only she could. Special thanks to Speaker Series sponsors Bank of Texas, Stewart Title, GlobalPro, Republic Title, Younger Partners, and The Dallas Morning News-Medium Giant.

This episode of TRECcast is a replay of our August 27 Market Matters panel, “Artificial Intelligence Insights & Innovations.” The panel discussion was moderated by D CEO Associate Editor Audrey Henvey and featured Doug Banerjee of Greysteel, Connor Hall of CBRE, Kevin Shtofman of Cherre, and Veronica Unnikrishnan of 5Q. Special thanks to Market Matters sponsors Grant Thornton, GlobalPro, D CEO, Colliers, and Republic Title.

On this episode, we take a look behind the scenes of the 2024 ALC-Community Investors Project to construct a new headquarters of Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach Center (ZWHJCOC). The project is the first in the new Dallas Catalyst Project: Mill City initiative to get underway. Our guest is Frances Smith-Dean, ZWHJCOC's Executive Director. We discussed the outreach center's mission, its needs in a new facility, and how Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. himself continues to inspire the organization's work.