Are These Opportunities or Threats to Commercial Real Estate?

Downtown Miami

MIAMI—Technologies and business models are evolving at warp speed, but some see opportunity where others see threats. It’s a matter of perspective, and there was plenty of it at the University of Miami Real Estate Impact Conference.

Hosted by the School of Architecture and the School of Business Administration, the first panel at the sixth annual event was “Finding Opportunity in Disruption.” Natalia Martinez-Kalinina, general manager of the Cambridge Innovation Center, a real estate services company that bills itself as a “community of entrepreneurs,” moderated a discussion exploring how the commercial real estate industry can partner with, and profit from, firms like Amazon, Bonobos and WeWork as they continue to revolutionize their segments.