Roosevelt University’s Wabash Building is a 32-story vertical campus that combines five buildings into one, linking classrooms, laboratories, administrative of...
Brandon Shorter oversees Hines' One Victory Park, a Class-A, 19-story, 436,000-square-foot office tower located in the uptown market of Dallas-Fort Worth. Imag...
One of the most difficult jobs in commercial real estate involves turning underutilized, outdated facilities into modern assets. And that’s exactly what Brad Gi...
You don’t often find a commercial real estate private equity investment professional who has seen the industry from every angle: engineering, design, constructi...
Paul Vacheron, managing director of asset management at American Realty Advisors, may owe his successful career in commercial real estate to his family.
With w...
Andi Lopez, senior vice president of management services for Transwestern in Florida, is a quick thinker who’s organized, motivated, and full of energy – and sa...
The City of Chicago looks to the 30-story Richard J. Daley Center as an example of what can be done to improve performance in existing facilities. And Andre Wiggins, general manager for the Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, has risen to that challenge. Wiggins has worked hard to prove himself as a successful facilities professional. And as a result of his team’s efforts, the Richard J. Daley Center has achieved LEED Silver [...]
Theresa Morzello, managing director for CBRE Group Inc. in New York City, explains why she thinks there shouldn’t be hard-and-fast rules in property management....
“It may be a fairytale way of explaining the business,” says Sheldon Oppermann, executive vice president of Compass Properties in Milwaukee, “but I really think...
With an expected completion in early 2017, the new Wilshire Grand high-rise in Los Angeles will contain approximately 365,000 RSF of office space across 18 flo...
Starting out as a property manager (and now serving as JLL’s managing director of integrated facility management), Chris Pesek made a rewarding career out of fa...
Even though Danny Rodriguez, vice president of engineering for MetroNational in Houston, has worked for the same company for nearly three decades, no two days a...
Spending nearly six decades working in facility operations, Tony Morille, former director of operations for Houston’s 27-story Villa d’Este, retired in June. But he has already decided that he can’t stay away from the industry any longer.
“I had decided it was going to be fun being retired, but I’m bored,” says Morille. “I miss the sense of accomplishment. There are so many challenges in what we do – I even miss times when a [...]
Like the vast majority of industry professionals, Michael Meyer, director, Northern California, Corporate Occupier & Investor Services at Cushman & Wake...
Dennis Sherry, regional director of management services at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, explains why the property management lessons he learned two decades ago s...
John Kelly left the world of property management, but it only took a few years for him to return to his roots. “I jumped into the internet world back in 2000, t...
Unlike many facilities professionals, Greg Pell didn’t venture into commercial real estate management with previous experience, or by climbing the ranks. An ind...
“There is no manual that says, ‘Read this, and you’ll be a successful property manager.’ You learn through experiences and trial and error,” says Kurt Wilczek, ...
Gordon Beckman’s interest in high-rise buildings started when he was 12 years old. Along with several of his neighborhood friends in Rockford, IL, he decided to...
Managing a total of 95 stories (seven with 60,000-square-foot floor plates) doesn’t faze Rush Durkin, senior property manager at Houston-based Hines. With almos...
