Extending its push into Texas, a property management firm with offices across the South and Western U.S. has relocated an industry veteran to Austin and deepened its leadership bench in the state.
Phoenix-based Arcadia Management Group has promoted Sara Pilar to regional director of property management.
In her new role at AMG, Pilar will oversee day-to-day management operations for its properties across Texas. She will also work in tandem with Joe Ford, AMG president of Texas operations, to grow the company’s property assignments in the state and grow its property management team.
AMG President Gary Shaw said Pilar has a “thorough understanding of property management,” according to a corporate statement announcing the move. “She agreed to relocate to be ‘boots on the ground’ in Texas — ready to respond to the state’s growing demand for property management services in what we consider to be a tremendous market for commercial real estate.”
AMG provides property, construction, maintenance and accounting services for more than 60 million square feet of commercial real estate across the United States. The firm entered the Texas market in 2017 and currently manages 4.22 million square feet of space in the state, primarily in Austin, San Antonio and Midland, and is looking to expand into additional Texas cities.
Pilar most recently served as a senior property manager with AMG, where she was responsible for an award-winning research and development campus in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Before that, she held real estate management roles at Foundry Commercial and Flagship Healthcare Properties, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Throughout her career, Pilar has provided property management services across the medical, office, retail and industrial property sectors. She is a Certified Manager of Commercial Properties and is currently pursuing her Real Property Administrator designation through the Building Owners and Managers Institute.
Veteran commercial real estate executive Andrew Wiener has been named head of commercial leasing at The Feil Organization, effective immediately.
In his new role, Wiener will oversee office leasing for the company’s portfolio, which encompasses more than 24 million square feet of space in the New York tri-state area as well as in Florida, Illinois, Louisiana and Washington, D.C.
“Andrew has an extremely successful history of expanding a portfolio’s tenant base with high-quality companies,” said Executive Vice President Brian Feil in a statement. “As we work to reposition our portfolio to accommodate today’s office needs, we’re looking forward to seeing his innovations.”
Before joining The Feil Organization, Wiener spent 12 years at L&L Holding Co., most recently as the director of leasing, where he oversaw an office portfolio of more than 8.5 million square feet in New York City. During his time there, Wiener leased more than 5.3 million square feet representing over $1 billion in value.
Nevada-based Logic Commercial Real Estate has promoted Amy Ogden to executive vice president.
In her expanded role, Ogden will continue to focus on industrial brokerage.
She has surpassed more than $1.6 billion in transaction value, was involved in several CoStar Power Broker quarterly deals for the market this year, and brokered four of the Top 50 SIOR nationwide industrial transactions last year, including the Deal of the Year for the Southern Nevada Chapter.
Ogden brings more than 16 years of industry experience at Logic CRE, including a previous role at Cushman & Wakefield, having represented both landlords and tenants in leasing transactions in addition to property sales, bankruptcy deals, land assemblages, development, corporate relocations and 1031 tax-deferred exchanges.
Newmark Valuation & Advisory has restructured the leadership team for its healthcare and seniors housing specialty practice and promoted Benjamin A. Tate to senior managing director.
In his new role as healthcare and seniors housing specialty practice leader, Tate will work closely with Matt Yance and Tim Gillespie, who were both recently promoted to executive vice president, and Charlie Henderson, who has joined the group as an executive vice president.
Tate joined Newmark in 2017 as a founding member of the healthcare and seniors housing specialty practice. Throughout his career, Tate has appraised more than 600 assets, including several notable portfolios for domestic and international clients.
Yance brings nearly a decade of experience in both the private and government sectors and will lead a dedicated team specializing in valuation and advisory services for seniors housing assets. Gillespie brings more than 10 years of appraisal experience valuing healthcare-oriented properties with a focus on hospitals. Henderson focuses on medical office valuations and joins Newmark V&A with 17 years of experience.
JLL Capital Markets has hired Danté Thomas as a managing director with its affordable housing production team in the firm’s Philadelphia office.
In his new leadership role, Thomas will be responsible for optimizing financing solutions from a variety of capital sources, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He reports directly to Senior Managing Director Angela Kelcher, who leads the national housing debt production team.
Thomas most recently served as vice president of product originations for Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, where he worked with originators, clients and capital providers throughout the country. Before that, he worked as director of real estate for the Housing Partnership Equity Trust, which is now majority-owned by Lincoln Avenue Capital. Thomas began his career with Fannie Mae’s multihousing mortgage business and also worked for the District of Columbia’s Housing Finance Agency.
Kathryn Martinez has joined Marco, a Savills company, as a senior director in Philadelphia.
In her new role, Martinez will build upon the firm’s current project management capabilities in the Northeast and across the country, working alongside other leaders from Savills’ project management practice group. The group has been expanding its leadership teams in key markets since Savills acquired Marco Consultants in early 2020.
Martinez brings 20 years of project management and engineering experience across various commercial construction markets. She most recently served as director of engineering at DEDC, where she oversaw new client accounts, project staffing and project delivery, from design through construction, for a client list that includes Parkway Corp., Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Public Healthcare Management Corp. Before that, she worked as a studio director at Brinjac Engineering.
Erik Edwards has joined CBRE’s San Diego office as a senior vice president with its debt and structured finance group.
In his new role, Edwards will partner with Norm Sangalang, a senior vice president with CBRE’s national manufactured housing and RV resorts specialty practice group to help build the company’s manufactured housing communities, or MHC, platform and provide financing for MHC investors and owners.
Edwards brings more than 21 years of experience in commercial real estate finance, most recently as a director with Wells Fargo’s multifamily capital finance group, where he led and participated in the origination and closing of more than $5 billion in agency and other-lender loans for MHC borrowers. Before that, he was a vice president with the bank’s real estate capital markets, real estate managed assets and real estate merchant banking groups, where he led small-loan commercial mortgage-backed securities originations across the Western U.S. and managed a portfolio of distressed loans. Earlier in his career, Edwards worked with Greystone & Co., iStar Financial and Cushman & Wakefield’s valuation and advisory services group.
Justin M. Himelstein has joined Colliers in Arizona as a senior vice president.
In his new role, Himelstein will handle tenant representation brokerage across the office properties sector.
Himelstein brings more than 18 years of industry experience, most recently as a senior vice president in the tenant advisory and workplace solutions group at Transwestern. Throughout his career, Himelstein has negotiated more than 750 transactions on behalf of tenants in a variety of industries. He holds a degree in business real estate from the University of Arizona and is an active member of NAIOP.
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