Avison Young appointed Sarah Wiebenson as a senior vice president in its Denver retail team. The retail strategist will expand the group’s retail services throughout Colorado and nationally, the firm said. Wiebenson, who has over 25 years of experience, joined the real estate services firm from Grounded Collective, the boutique retail strategy advisory firm she founded.
Before that, she served in a leadership position at the Downtown Denver Partnership, where she led the group that won the Downtown Achievement Pinnacle Award from The International Downtown Association for its creation of the Why Downtown Denver website. Wiebenson also worked for the city of Boulder, where she led a citywide retail study, developing a commercial district revitalization strategy and playing a key role in a high-profile public-private development project.
Jeremy Bernstein has returned to CBRE as a vice president in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. He will work alongside the Greater Pennsylvania multifamily team and focus on the acquisition and sale of apartment complexes across Pittsburgh while supporting the brokerage’s broader state growth plans, CBRE said. Bernstein, who rejoined CBRE from JLL, began his commercial real estate career as a field research analyst with CBRE.
Dalfen Industrial appointed a new chief technology officer, Keats Ali, to help scale the company’s last-mile industrial investment and operations business. Joining the firm from Lincoln Property Co., Ali will lead the firm’s technology, data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise platform strategy. He is also charged with growing Dalfen’s data-driven investment approach, the company said.
Cushman & Wakefield Executive Regional Director Ryan Miller has assumed leadership of the firm's Atlanta and Nashville, Tennessee, operations. He will continue to oversee the firm’s mid-Atlantic region, including the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, Baltimore and the Carolinas, Cushman said. Miller’s expanded responsibilities include driving growth across both markets and working alongside Chris Ahrenkiel in Atlanta and Julie Wilson in Nashville.
Colliers added Kurt Davis to its greater Los Angeles office brokerage team as a senior vice president. Formerly the in-house leasing director at the Irvine Co., where he supported a portfolio of office properties across California, Davis will work alongside Matthew Heyn and Ian Gilbert as part of an advisory team focused on downtown LA and Westside. The work will involve consulting with landlords and tenants on leasing, investments and strategic positioning, the company said.
In Chicago, McHugh Construction hired Alec Miller as general counsel. With over 20 years of experience, Miller now leads the firm’s legal, risk management and compliance functions, overseeing transactions, financings, regulatory compliance, labor negotiations, litigation and dispute resolution across McHugh’s portfolio, the firm said. He most recently was general counsel for Premier Design+Build Group.
National affordable housing preservation company Hudson Valley Property Group appointed Kristin Koch as a managing director and head of capital raising. It also promoted Diana Bellizi to managing director and head of investor relations and Matt Doty to chief financial officer and chief compliance officer. In their new roles, Koch will focus on investor origination, outreach, and pipeline development, and Bellizi will lead investor engagement, oversee operational due diligence, manage reporting and onboarding and strengthen limited partner relationships, HVPG said. The pair will lead HVPG’s Investor Solutions group, bringing together capital raising and investor relations under a unified structure.