Ryan Elazari | Senior Director | Empire Management | The future of CRE from a Proptech adopter, teacher & entrepreneur

In this episode, host David Abrams is in conversation with Ryan Elazari, Senior Director at Empire Management. Ryan shares his journey to commercial real estate and his early stopover in the banking industry. Ryan is all in on CRE, from his work experience to teaching real estate entrepreneurship, and from investing in proptech to his endless reading and listening of industry-related content, including the writing of Dror Poleg, and in particular, his book ‘Rethinking Real Estate’. Building operators need to accept the fact that we are now living in a new normal, and what that means for the industry. Ryan believes strongly in the connection between healthy buildings and tenant productivity and retention. Office buildings need to take a hospitality approach to engaging with tenants to improve communications, ensure that everyone is aware of all activities going on in the building, and provide a way for them to feel connected to their entire building community. All of this led Empire Management to adopt HILO’s Workplace Engagement Platform across two of their properties in Midtown Manhattan. With the CRE industry’s current focus on sustainability, Ryan is closely watching the impact of climate tech and the ways in which tenants are driving some of the developments and advances. Subscribe to TEN so you never miss an episode of the Tenant Experience Network.