Joe Coradino on ‘the New PREIT’
ByNEW YORK CITY—“To a certain extent, we feel as if this is our first New York ICSC ever,” Joe Coradino, CEO of PREIT, during what was in fact the latest in a series of ICSC New York National Deal Making conferences for the Philadelphia-based mall REIT. Although Coradino quickly added that the REIT—among the nation’s first publicly held real estate trusts—has participated in the conference for many years, he continued, “we come here a different company.” Over the past year, he has frequently spoken of “the new PREIT.”
GlobeSt.com caught up with Coradino at a busy New York conference earlier this month, where he provided a look behind the scenes at the company’s transformation. He discussed: