Tim Gokhman is the managing director of New Land Enterprises, a pioneering real estate development firm specializing in mixed-use residential and commercial real estate. Since its founding in 1993, New Land has developed 27 projects. The firm adheres to a disciplined differentiation development philosophy, using new materials, technologies, and end-user-informed designs to set its buildings apart. New Land excels at creating built environments at the neighborhood scale, striving to curate memorable spaces focused on the user experience. We believe that cities thrive when they are diverse, walkable, and culturally vibrant.
In 2022, New Land completed Ascent MKE, the world's tallest mass timber building (25 stories, 259 units). Ascent's success served as proof of concept that buildings can be more beautiful and sustainable, while also being built faster, more precisely, and with a smaller labor force. In March of 2024, Tim helped launch Timber + Partners, a real estate development firm focused on developing mass timber buildings.
Tim graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 with a BBA in Real Estate and a BS in Economics. He has been featured in national media such as the Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, NYTimes, NPR, NBC Nightly News, Vox, and PBS Newshour, and is prominently featured in a documentary called Engineering the Future: Timber Skyscraper. He is regularly asked to speak at conferences on mass timber, and has spoken at the 2018 CTBUH Annual Conference, the International Mass Timber Conferences (2020-2023), and ULI's annual fall meeting in 2022.
Speaking at
Thu Apr 11
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
New York Hilton Midtown - Level 2, Gramercy Suite
The Tesla of Commercial Real Estate: How Mass Timber Is Changing the Way We Design and Build
In recent decades, no building material has inspired awe, passion, and innovation like mass timber. Nature's building solution is transforming the construction industry because it sequesters carbon, greatly improves speed and precision, significantly reduces the size of the framing crew, and, most important, creates a superior product that occupants love.
The United States has been behind Europe and Canada in the production and use of mass timber and many municipal codes haven't even contemplated tall timber as a solution. But in recent years that has changed, as companies such as Google, Adidas, Atlassian, and Walmart have embraced mass timber and cities have updated codes to allow for taller mass timber structures to be built. This session serves as a "state of the union" for mass timber: how far it has come, its massive future potential, and the biggest challenges (and solutions) for its progress.
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