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Bisnow Event Concentrates on Navigating San Diego’s Complex Multifamily Landscape
CGS3 Partner Joe von Meier to Serve on Panel at Annual Housing Summit Discussing Navigating Multifamily Development Throughout San Diego – Entitlement Hurdles, Construction Costs, Financing New Builds & Getting A Project Off the Ground
SAN DIEGO (Wednesday, July 30, 2025) – Despite a critical need for additional housing in San Diego, multifamily development remains challenged with myriad obstacles including mounting construction costs, entitlement hurdles, tackling regulatory roadblocks, NIMBY resistance and financing issues.
These issues and many more will be vetted by top industry leaders at Bisnow’s San Diego Multifamily and Affordable Housing Summit, to be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 6, 2025 at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter.
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) partner Joseph von Meier, who represents multifamily clients across the country, will moderate the event’s first panel discussion from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m., “Navigating Multifamily Development Throughout San Diego” – focusing on entitlements, rising construction costs, and financing hurdles impacting new builds and getting projects off the ground.
Von Meier will host a panel of high profile commercial real estate and multifamily experts including Mike Dow, chief operating officer, Sunroad Real Estate Holdings; Chris Montes, partner and CIO, Logos Development; David Allen, principal, Trestle Build; David McCullough, principal McCullough Landscape Architecture and Chase Ronge, principal and director, MVE + Partners.
Additional panels through the day will feature industry power players who will tackle “Navigating Local Policy,” “Winning the San Diego Renter” and “Affordable Housing Under Pressure.”
Specializing in the residential development process, von Meier concentrates on high-profile, complex real estate transactions with a focus on student housing, multifamily, luxury residential and retail development and construction.
For more information on the event, visit Bisnow’s website.
About Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
CGS3 is a recognized leader among a new generation of commercial real estate law firms with practice areas covering the entire commercial real estate life cycle, including finance, acquisition/disposition, entity formation, tax, development, land use, leasing, distressed asset workouts and dispute resolution. Earning a reputation as one of California’s leading commercial real estate law firms, CGS3 recruits the state’s top real estate attorneys from both large corporate firms and senior in-house positions. For more information, visit http://www.cgs3.com.