Turning underused buildings into regional anchors: What it takes to unlock the next generation of reimagined projects in 2026

What We’ll Cover:

• How hospitality and boutique hotel reuse is being driven by squeezed profit margins, uneven demand, higher interest rates, and looming debt maturities, and what that means for repositioning older assets into more resilient concepts.
• Multifamily and downtown revitalizations in Dallas and Fort Worth, where office buildings are being converted to mixed-use housing that serves shifting demographics, including single-person households and aging boomers, while preserving historic character and neighborhood identity.
• Office-to-residential conversions across North Texas, including how sponsors are selecting candidates, addressing floor plates and building systems, and navigating the financing, entitlement, and municipality challenges that differ between Dallas, Frisco, and other DFW submarkets.
• Financing structures powering adaptive reuse deals, including PACE funding, TIFs, Opportunity Zones, and historic tax credits, and what it means for deal penciling now that key tax credit programs have been gutted.
• Suburban retail and mixed-use repositioning, with aging malls, shopping centers, and underutilized suburban assets being reimagined as walkable, mixed-income districts that build middle-class wealth and serve communities that are growing but no longer building new schools.