ReConversations: Joe DosReis of GEMCAP Development

This is ReConversations, a special interview with Joe DosReis, Senior Vice President of GEMCAP Development, live from ICSC ReCon 2023.

ReConversations is an exclusive mini-series of The Crexi Podcast, an insider’s look at all things commercial real estate, powered by NNN Pro Group.The Crexi team visited ICSC ReCon LIVE in Las Vegas from the floor of the convention center at the NNN Pro Group’s booth. 

The Crexi Podcast explores various aspects of the commercial real estate industry in conversation with some of the top CRE professionals in the space. In each episode, we feature different guests to tap into their wealth of CRE expertise and explore the latest trends and updates from the world of commercial real estate. 

In this episode, Crexi’s Yannis Papadakis sits with Joe to cover wide-ranging topics, including:

• Introductions and early career moves
• Key mentors, lessons learned, and why “no deal is worth dying for”
• Current trends in retail space and the impact of financing on the sector
• How past market cycles apply to today
• Challenges the market faces today, such as the bid-ask gap between the increased construction costs of build-to-suits and what tenants are expecting to pay in rent
• Seeking big opportunities in office’s current headwinds, if you know where to look
• Thoughts on the rise of technology and AI in the CRE space
• Rapid fire questions and sign-offs
• And much more!

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A special shout out and thanks to our friends at the NNN Pro Group, the market leading net lease investment sales and advisory team who is making this podcast series possible. NNN Pro Group has completed over $30 billion in net lease sales and is one of the largest sale-leaseback advisors in the country. To learn more about their team and services, you can visit their website.

About Joe DosReis:

Joe DosReis has over 22 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. Joe began his career as an account executive for an investment properties team at CBRE, where he served 12 years in various capacities, including investment properties, retail leasing and Global Corporate Services divisions. 

Following his time with CBRE, Joe made the transition to the occupier side of the business when he joined Krispy Kreme as a Real Estate Manager and led new store development efforts and existing store lease re-negotiations for the brand. This was followed by his time as the Director of Real Estate at Bojangles where he lead a team of real estate professionals overseeing all franchise and corporate new store development, existing store lease optimization efforts

Joe earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Science from California State University, Fresno and a Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Joe is a proud military veteran where he served as a Combat Engineer for the U.S Army.

About Crexi:

Crexi is transforming commercial real estate with advanced, integrative technology and data analytics designed to accelerate every CRE stakeholder’s success. From trading properties to machine-learning-powered industry Intelligence, Crexi’s intuitive CRE solutions accelerate transaction velocity and have empowered over 2 million monthly users to close $540 billion in deals and market over $5 trillion in property value.