ULI Nashville Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2026 Breakfast

When

2025-11-19
2025-11-19T07:30:00 - 2025-11-19T10:00:00
America/Chicago

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    Where

    Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum 222 Rep. John Lewis Way S Nashville, TN 37203 UNITED STATES

    Pricing

    Early Pricing Until October 31 Members Non-Members
    Private $150.00 $215.00
    Public/Academic/Nonprofit $100.00 $135.00
    Retired $45.00 N/A
    Student $55.00 $80.00
    Under Age 35 $75.00 $100.00
    Pricing
    Private $195.00 $250.00
    Public/Academic/Nonprofit $150.00 $200.00
    Retired $55.00 N/A
    Student $105.00 $130.00
    Under Age 35 $140.00 $190.00

    Featuring the Emerging Trends in Real Estate®: United States and Canada 2026 Annual Report

    A Joint Publication of ULI and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

    Nashville has been named #6, continuing its streak in the top 10 markets to watch! Click HERE to read the Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2026 report.

    ULI Nashville will present its annual real estate trends and forecast program, Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2026 Breakfast, on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. 

    The program will feature the Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2026 Annual Report, a joint publication of the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers. For the past four years, the ULI / PwC report has listed Nashville among the top five markets to watch.

    Time:

    7:30 a.m. - Networking

    8:30 - 10:00 a.m. - Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2026 featuring ULI/PwC Findings and Real Estate Outlook for Nashville/Middle TN featuring Local Experts (Plated breakfast included with registration)

    Panel Theme: A Rising Tide Lifts All (Size) Boats?

    This year’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate expert panel will explore how transformational investment on the East Bank is influencing surrounding developments and broader policy issues facing Nashville – from infrastructure, community development, and affordability, to the impact of the development on demand for other products. Panelists represent large, medium, and small-scale developments across different asset types, offering a diverse perspective on how scale and strategy intersect in a rapidly evolving urban landscape.

     


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    Emerging Trends Presenting Sponsor!
      
     
       

     


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    Speakers

    Keynote Speaker

    Haley Anderson

    Director, PwC

    Haley is a director in PwC’s Financial Markets and Real Estate practice with over 10 years of real estate valuation and consulting experience. At PwC, she works with institutional investors and private equity firms on the execution of investment strategies, financial due diligence, and purchase price allocations. She has been part of the Emerging Trends in Real Estate process for the past 8 years and supports the editors in collecting research and interviewing market participants. She has a degree in Policy, Planning, and Development from the University of Southern California.

    Panelist

    Rob Lowe

    Executive Managing Director & Partner, Stream Realty Partners

    Rob Lowe is an Executive Managing Director & Partner at Stream, where he leads the strategic direction and operations of the Nashville office. His primary responsibilities include expanding Stream’s acquisition, development, leasing, and property management services, and building Stream’s brand presence in Nashville. Prior to joining Stream, Rob worked as a Senior Managing Director with Cushman & Wakefield. He also served as a principal and member of the board of directors of Cushman’s predecessor firm, Cassidy Turley, serving as a member of the firm’s fiveperson capital committee that negotiated its sale in 2014 (which then acquired DTZ and merged with Cushman & Wakefield). Rob counts many of Middle Tennessee’s largest companies and organizations among his clients and has been involved in the region’s largest commercial real estate transactions—securing AllianceBernstein for Brookfield Properties’ Fifth + Broadway development, 501 Commerce;  representing TVA on the acquisition of their 1.2 millionsquare-foot Chattanooga headquarters; and leading the purchase and 100 percent leaseup efforts of Commerce Center East, Fourth & Church, and Lyft’s regional headquarters in downtown Nashville. He was the lead broker to market Beaman Automotive’s nearly 18 acres in midtown Nashville, indicative of the preeminent commercial properties entrusted to him and most likely to be one of the most significant commercial real estate land sales in Nashville’s history. In May 2023, Rob was named to the board of directors of InsCorp, the parent company of InsBank. Rob has been a Nashville Business Journal Commercial Real Estate Power Leader for the past eight years and is involved in developments that have won awards from the Urban Land Institute, Nashville Chapter.

    Panelist

    Kelsey Oesmann Wilson

    Principal, Nelson Community Partners

    Kelsey Oesmann Wilson is a Principal at Nelson Community Partners, an affordable housing and community development firm based in Nashville, TN where she is managing a pipeline of more than 250 affordable housing units across six projects. She is a licensed architect and previously spent seven years with Urban Housing Solutions, Nashville’s leading nonprofit provider of affordable housing. Kelsey also designed The Game of Rent board game and Affordable Housing 101 community teaching tool to combat harmful stereotypes and misconceptions about affordable housing. She is currently the co-chair of the Housing Action Council and serves on the Advisory Board for ULI Nashville. In addition, Kelsey serves on the Board of Directors for AIA Middle Tennessee and local nonprofits Neighbor 2 Neighbor and Open Table Nashville. She is a founding board member of the Tennessee chapter of the Women's Affordable Housing Network (TNWAHN). Prior to moving to Nashville in 2017 as an Enterprise Rose Fellow, Kelsey designed mixed-use, retail, and multifamily projects in the Washington, DC area. In 2016, she biked from Virginia to Oregon with the nonprofit Bike & Build to raise funds and awareness for affordable housing. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech in 2014. In her free time, Kelsey loves to bike, hike, and enjoy live music with her husband.

    Panelist

    Matt Robinson

    Principal, MRP Realty

    Matt Robinson has 17 years of experience in the real estate industry and pursues multi-family residential, mixed-use acquisition and development opportunities for MRP Realty. Since joining the firm in 2007, Matt has overseen the entitlement, development, and repositioning of over 3.2 million square feet including over 1,100 units. In his seven years at TCC prior to joining MRP, Matt developed a total of 1.5 million square feet comprising 924 residential units and 542,000 square feet of retail and commercial space totaling over $654 million. Before joining TCC, he was an architect with Dimella Shaffer Associates in Boston, Massachusetts focused primarily on age-restricted residential and hotel projects. Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and received his MSRED from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Panelist

    Shawn Seaman

    Chief Development Officer, The Fallon Company

    Shawn Seaman is responsible for leading The Fallon Company’s large-scale development projects and driving strategic growth across its national portfolio. Based in the company’s Nashville office, Shawn plays a key role in overseeing transformative initiatives, including the multi-billion-dollar East Bank development.  With more than two decades of experience in real estate development, urban planning, and architecture, Shawn has a proven track record of delivering award-winning mixed-use projects. Prior to joining The Fallon Company in 2025, he served as President of Hoffman & Associates, where he spent 23 years leading acquisitions, development, and market expansion efforts, including delivering the Wharf in Washington, D.C., a $2.5 billion, 3.2-million-square-foot mixed-use waterfront development.   A registered architect in Florida and Washington, D.C., and a LEED AP certified professional, Shawn holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a certificate in Real Estate Design and Development. 

    Moderator

    Lucy Kempf

    Executive Director, Metro Nashville Planning Commission, Nashville Metro Planning Dept

    Lucy Kempf was named Executive Director of the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Planning Department in June 2018 after two years as manager of the Department’s Land Development division. She leads a staff of 85 in guiding Nashville and Davidson County’s growth and development, processing development applications, and contributing to the community’s vision and direction for the future. Ms. Kempf came to Nashville in September 2016 after ten years at the National Capital Planning Commission in Washington, DC, where she was most recently Director of Urban Design and Plan Review and previously served as Senior Urban Planner. Her responsibilities there included managing the Commission’s Building Height Master Plan and leading analysis of a number of major projects in the National Capital Region, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center and proposals for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum renovation, both on the National Mall. She also led review of the final designs of the Eisenhower Memorial and the Kennedy Center expansion bridge. Ms. Kempf holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Davidson College, a master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia, and a Certificate in Art and Architectural History from Florida State University’s international program in Florence, Italy.