GlobeSt.com spoke with Mack-Cali Realty Corp. CEO Mitchell E. Hersh at the RealShare New Jersey conference about the REIT's concerted push to build a multi-family platform, starting from zero and taking off like a rocket.   After acquiring the Roseland residential development company last year, Mack-Cali proceeded to sell off non-core office assets and aggressively pursue apartment and mixed-use projects in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. 

Hersh tells Antoinette Martin in this conversation that Mack-Cali currently has about 2,100 more units in the pipeline and more than $700 million worth of projects “in process.” 

Hersh addresses these points in the video: 

  • Mack-Cali's unique agreement to invest in a joint venture with Keystone Properties, trading its Philadelphia suburban office properties for rights to multi-family development and cash to finance that.
  • Plans to redevelop several suburban office properties in the Garden State as mixed-use centers, including apartments.
  • His expectation that the multi-family market will be the REIT's focus for decades.

 

 

 

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