Savills adds former MLB pitcher to industrial team
Savills added former Major League Baseball pitcher Charles Brewer to its Dallas office, serving as vice chairman. The brokerage said Brewer will be advising industrial tenants. He joins Savills from Stream Realty Partners, where he represented large corporate clients including Automann, BSN Sports, UPS and Southern Tire Mart.
He began his real estate career at Transwestern in 2018 and has since handled more than 10 million square feet of transactions across North America, valued at more than $660 million. Prior to real estate, Brewer spent 10 years in pro baseball, playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Cleveland Indians.
Colliers expands Philadelphia services
Colliers broadened its Philadelphia regional services by hiring Julia Marchese, based in the company’s Lehigh Valley office in Allentown, Pennsylvania, roughly an hour from Philadelphia. The brokerage said Marchese joins Colliers as an associate in its office division, after prior work at financial services firm Ryan LLC. At Ryan, she advised clients regarding property taxes on retail, industrial, multifamily and office portfolios.
Marchese will focus on leasing, valuation and marketing of commercial properties across northeastern Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley, including the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre regions. She will also continue to work at Insalaco Development Group, serving as a third-generation commercial leasing and marketing manager.
NewMark Merrill targets mountain state retail growth
Shopping center owner and developer NewMark Merrill Cos. hired Paul Sheppard as vice president of acquisitions and development for its Mountain States division, based in the Denver suburb of Westminster, Colorado. The company said Sheppard is a 24-year industry veteran, handling development, property management, construction, budgeting, merchandising, lease negotiation and other tenant-relations functions.
Sheppard joined NewMark Merrill from SheppCo Holdings, where he served as president and led commercial real estate investments. He served earlier as vice president of leasing for retail center owner ShopCore Properties and held senior roles with Regency Centers, DDR Corp. and Brixmor Property Group. Calabasas, California-based NewMark Merrill owns and manages more than 110 retail centers nationwide, valued at more than $3 billion.
Cohen & Steers taps new research chief
Global asset manager Cohen & Steers appointed Seth Laughlin as senior vice president and head of real estate strategy and research. The New York-based company said Laughlin is a 20-year industry veteran, serving most recently as managing director and head of U.S. market research at Green Street. He led a Green Street team handling research coverage of the top 50 national real estate markets. He now reports to Jon Cheigh, president and chief investment officer at Cohen & Steers.
Prior to Green Street, Laughlin worked as an equity research analyst at ISI Group, covering real estate investment trusts focused on residential and storage properties, and as an institutional equities REIT sector specialist at Merrill Lynch. His new role is in Cohen & Steers’ Real Estate Strategy Group. The company has more than $88 billion in assets under management worldwide, including over $56 billion in real estate.
Lincoln Property broadens corporate services group
Real estate services firm Lincoln Property Co. made several new hires in its Corporate Advisory & Solutions group, led by Will Burchfield as business development director. The Dallas-based company said Burchfield has more than 10 years of industry experience, joining Lincoln from IWG, where he served as managing director of institutional real estate for the Americas.
In the same corporate advisory group, Lincoln added Madison Davis, formerly with CBRE, as business development strategist. Also hired was Andrew Dixon, formerly with CBRE, as business development manager, and Joe Hartmann, formerly with Cushman & Wakefield, as senior business development manager. Lincoln provides third-party real estate services and continues to develop its own projects nationwide, with more than $19.5 billion in projects under construction or in its pipeline.