Jennifer Bales Drake Moderates Broward Forward Roundtable on Regional Growth and Economic Resilience
Becker shareholder and Chair of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Jennifer Bales Drake, moderated the South Florida Business Journal’s second annual Broward Forward Roundtable, bringing together leaders from business, government, education, health care and transportation to discuss the region’s economic future. Featured in South Florida Business Journal, the discussion explored key issues shaping Broward County’s growth, including workforce development, housing affordability, infrastructure resilience, transportation, access to capital and artificial intelligence. Drake emphasized the importance of collaboration among business and community leaders to strengthen the region’s competitiveness and support sustainable growth.
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Jennifer Bales Drake is a highly accomplished real estate attorney and a Vice Chair of Becker’s Public, Private Partnerships (P3) practice group.
Jennifer’s practice focuses on commercial transactions which range from planned project development, including creation of condominiums, mixed use developments, townhome developments and single family developments, condominium conversions, public-private partnership transactions (P3), which includes representing municipalities, higher education institutions and private parties; real estate contract negotiation, mortgage and asset based financing for both financial institutions and borrowers, commercial leases, ground leases; preparation of joint venture agreements for real estate transactions, as well as real estate workouts and liquidation of real estate owned (REO) properties for financial institutions.
