Where We Buy: Retail Real Estate with James Cook

Elizabeth Boldin Thomas is SVP of Business Transformation and Intelligence at Centennial. She talks about how the company rolled out Claude to a small cross-functional cohort, why in-person training and a group of internal influencers made the difference, and how the effort has already saved roughly 2,800 person hours a year. She also covers the distinction between AI and aut...

Lauren Holden is Managing Director, Head of Retail at AEW, one of the world's largest real estate investment managers, with about $40 billion under management in the US. Holden discusses AEW's retail portfolio of roughly 45 assets and 10.5 million square feet, from enclosed malls to grocery anchored neighborhood centers, and why the community center is her favorite property t...