Cushman & Wakefield has recruited Andy La Dow as its new managing principal of operations in San Diego, where he has been a broker for more than 30 years. La Dow joined Cushman after working as Colliers’ regional managing director overseeing the brokerage’s business in San Diego County. In his new role at Cushman, he’ll oversee the strategic business growth of its advisory business in the market and report to Matt Chatham, regional president.
For La Dow, the move marks a homecoming of sorts. He worked for 12 years at DTZ and Cassidy Turley, brokerages that now are part of Cushman & Wakefield. Dan Broderick, president of Cushman & Wakefield’s advisory business in the Americas, said the firm is glad to have La Dow back. “He is a perfect match for this valued role and in stewarding our growth and business forward,” Broderick said in a statement. La Dow said he looks forward to reconnecting with former Cushman colleagues and meeting with his new ones. “San Diego is an expanding market that has maintained solid commercial real estate fundamentals overall and remains a place that companies, workers, and residents desire to be,” he said in a statement.
In Salt Lake City, CBRE promoted one of its own, Erin Laney Barr, to be its new market leader. In the job she’s set to begin July 10, she’ll oversee business operations and drive the office’s growth strategy for the advisory services lines that include leasing, sales, debt and structured finance, project management and property management. “Erin has a bold vision for where our business can go, and I’m excited to see her collaborate with our Salt Lake City professionals to make that vision come to fruition,” Paul Komadina, CBRE’s senior managing director in Phoenix, said in a statement.
Laney Barr joined the brokerage in 2022 as a transaction manager. Before that, she was partner and co-founder of Barr Property Development Group in Salt Lake City. She also worked for several years as a real estate attorney in South California and represented large financial institutions in legal matters related to their properties. As vice president of business development at the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, she helped the state attract and retain companies. In a LinkedIn message, Laney Barr said she’s ready to take over as market leader. “The Salt Lake City & Lehi offices of CBRE are full of incredibly smart, talented, hard working and awesome professionals-I feel lucky to be your colleague,” she said. “As a wise man once said, ‘Let’s roll!'”
Drew Genova, who worked for nearly three decades overseeing and growing brokerage and asset services operations at Trammell Crow, CBRE and Madison Marquette, has joined Transwestern in Washington, D.C. In his role as senior managing director of client services and development, Genova will work to expand Transwestern’s asset service presence along the East Coast.
Genova’s ability to build “transformative business development strategies” will play an important role as he builds the firm’s asset services business, said Transwestern East Region President Bruce Ford. While at Trammell Crow, Genova built its brokerage practice in the Mid-Atlantic from the ground up. “This is a pivotal opportunity for me to augment Transwestern’s growth strategies with my expertise in developing the asset services function,” Genova said in a statement.
Longtime tenant representative David Rubenstein has taken over as Atlanta market leader at Savills. Rubenstein, a vice chair who joined the brokerage about seven years ago from Cresa, succeeds Vice Chair Chris White, who will shift to focusing full time on brokerage at the firm.
Janet Woods, president, Savills’ East region, said Rubenstein’s leadership will enable the firm to continue to build its business in the region. “Atlanta continues to be a bourgeoning market due to a rich diversity of talent and a broad foundational industry base,” Woods said in a statement. “The city’s business-friendly environment is attractive to new-to-market occupiers, as well as to those expanding their presence in the area.”
Rubenstein said he is prepared to expand the office so it can seize opportunities, especially as tenants demand more from their brokerages. “Our charge is to add new professionals who appreciate our work ethic and competitive spirit and who can embrace the challenges and opportunities of today’s real estate markets,” he said in an email. “We are actively working to bring in mid-level and senior real estate professionals and consultants with strong tenant relationships and specific expertise in the office and industrial markets.”
Faropoint has hired Michael Janus as a vice president of acquisitions as the firm focused on last-mile industrial properties seeks new investments. Janus joined the Hoboken, New Jersey-based firm in Chicago, where he will oversee investment opportunities, asset management and growth of Faropoint in Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. He reports to Jordan Nathan, a Faropoint senior vice president and the firm’s Midwest market officer.
Prior to joining Faropoint, Janus was vice president of MedCraft Investment Partners, a healthcare real estate investment and asset management platform. Nathan said Janus will help Faropoint expand its Midwest presence by driving its acquisition and disposition strategy “as we closely monitor deal flow and market activity in the industrial sector during this time of heightened uncertainty.”
JLL has bolstered its capital market team in the Midwest with the addition of broker Bill Baumann, who has two decades of industry experience. Baumann just joined what JLL calls its multi-housing team as a managing director in its Chicago office. In his new role, he’ll focus on apartment investment sales and financing transactions in Chicagoland and across the Midwest and report to senior managing directors Danny Kaufman and Jaime Fink, who co-lead JLL’s Chicago capital markets group.
Baumann will work closely with David Gaines, who co-leads JLL’s private capital group. He joined JLL from Monarch Realty Partners, a Chicago-based multifamily brokerage where he served as principal and managing broker. He also worked at multifamily brokerage Kiser Group and JPMorgan Chase.
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has added Keith Hinder Jr. to its real estate group in Baltimore. Hinder joined the firm from Niles, Barton & Wilmer. At Womble, he represents clients in commercial real estate transactions involving all property types. Hinder also is an experienced litigator.
Before entering private law practice, Hinder served as in-house claims litigation counsel for several companies including insurance giant Geico. “Keith has spent his entire career practicing in Maryland, giving him a uniquely deep understanding of the state’s real estate landscape,” said Barry Herman, managing partner of Womble’s Baltimore office.
