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Stream expands industrial team; JLL boosts energy practice; Adolfson names Central Texas business director

New hires, promotions and other personnel changes
From left: Ben Dickey (Stream Realty Partners), Brian Rappaport (JLL), Amber Autumn (Adolfson & Peterson)
From left: Ben Dickey (Stream Realty Partners), Brian Rappaport (JLL), Amber Autumn (Adolfson & Peterson)
CoStar News
August 28, 2025 | 6:49 P.M.

Stream Realty expands Chicago industrial team

Ben Dickey joined the Chicago office of Stream Realty Partners as a vice president. The Dallas-based commercial real estate services firm said Dickey will focus on landlord and tenant representation in the industrial sector. He joined Stream from CBRE, where he served most recently as first vice president.

Dickey started his real estate career six years ago, specializing in occupier representation in the Chicago O’Hare International Airport corridor. He also works in leasing and with large-scale redevelopments. He has completed more than $400 million in transactions across the region’s key industrial neighborhoods.

JLL adds to energy advisory ranks

JLL hired Brian Rappaport as financial procurement and advisory practice lead for its energy advisory and sustainability team. He's based in New York. The company said Rappaport will assist investor and occupier clients with energy sourcing, planning, contracting and other functions geared to clean technologies and related infrastructure development.

Rappaport served most recently as head of power origination and development at Net Power, where he led the commercialization and deployment of utility-scale, near-zero-emission technologies. He held earlier roles at firms including Nikola Motor Co., BP and Morgan Stanley. The 20-year energy industry veteran is “ideally positioned to lead our financial procurement advisory practice as the real estate sector accelerates its energy transition,” said Josephine Tucker, JLL’s head of energy advisory and sustainability for the Americas, in a statement.

Adolfson names Central Texas business director

Industry veteran Amber Autumn joined Adolfson & Peterson Construction as director of business development for Central Texas in the company's Austin office. The Minneapolis-based construction management firm said Autumn, who has more than 26 years of experience, including over 15 years of field work, will lead its efforts to grow its client project base across Central Texas.

Prior to Adolfson & Peterson, she worked at the contracting firm Summit Design + Build for more than 10 years. With operations in six states, Adolfson & Peterson has consistently been ranked among the nation’s Top 100 contracting firms based on prior-year revenue, according to a list from the trade publication Engineering News Record.

Atlantic Capital hires D.C., Charleston brokers

Dean Sands (Atlantic Capital Partners)
Dean Sands (Atlantic Capital Partners)

Brokerage Atlantic Capital Partners added Dean Sands as an executive vice president in its Washington, D.C., office and Jordan Gomez as a vice president in its new leasing office in Charleston, South Carolina. Sands joined Atlantic Capital, a division of Boston-based Atlantic Retail, from JLL, where he was a managing director in Washington, D.C. He previously held positions at Eastdil Secured and Avison Young.

The 23-year industry veteran has handled $12.6 billion in transactions nationwide, primarily in the retail category.

Gomez, who most recently handled multitenant retail transactions for Sands Investment Group, is focused on shopping centers across the Southeast, Atlantic Capital said. He held prior roles during the past decade at firms including Kidder Mathews, Colliers and Matthews Real Estate Investment Services. 

Matthews grows New York retail leasing team

Matthew Fogel (Matthews)
Matthew Fogel (Matthews)

Matthews Real Estate Investment Services hired Matthew Fogel as vice president in its New York office. Nashville, Tennessee-based Matthews said Fogel will launch the company’s new retail leasing division in the New York region as part of the firm’s larger efforts to grow its East Coast presence.

Fogel worked previously at Kassin Sabbagh Realty in New York and has handled more than 250,000 square feet of retail leasing transactions.

He has represented tenants and landlords, including family-run investment firms, real estate investment trusts and other institutional clients.

Matthews said it now employs more than 1,000 people across 30 offices nationwide.

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