Marcellus Wiley delivered a powerful message of hope and inspiration by telling his life story of a boy growing up in Compton, California, excelling at football at a young age and learning some of life’s greatest lessons through sports. He also ran track at Saint Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica.

Drones are at that stage of societal acceptance in which they are still a curiosity that causes great excitement, yet are seen as resources to provide lower-cost, high-efficiency services in a variety of ways. Those include delivery, surveying and – especially relevant to CRE developers and owners – video marketing.

Geoffrey Woodward, NAI Global Chairman & C-III Capital Partners Senior Managing Director, recently spoke with NAI Global President Jay Olshonsky, SIOR, FRICS on the State of Commercial Real Estate before a full ballroom at the Hilton Austin Hotel with over 625 attendees. The following are excerpts from that discussion.