A Conversation With Melina Cordero

10/25/19 • 27 min

In this episode we sit down with Melina Cordero, the managing director of retail capital markets at CBRE, at Allegory at Eaton DC on K Street. Over cocktails billed as wellness-focused, we talk about retail bankruptcies, department store reinventions and why she's not so sure online will kill brick-and-mortar.

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After a summer hiatus, the Let’s Have A Drink podcast is back with an interview with Monty Hoffman. Hoffman is the CEO of Hoffman & Associates and co-developer of The Wharf, a $2.5B megaproject on the Southwest D.C. waterfront. At the Whisky Charlie, a rooftop bar in one of the Wharf’s three hotels, he talks about shepherding the project through a recession, four acts of Congress and his original partner’s bankruptcy.

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