Brian Cooper, a life science specialist, has joined Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) as a senior vice president.
Cooper is an expert in conducting facility planning and site selection and negotiating leases, purchases, renewals, expansions, consolidations and dispositions for laboratory companies.
Cooper joins Jones Lang LaSalle from Cushman & Wakefield, where he completed approximately 3.6 million square feet of lease and sales transactions in his career.
Chris Hobson, Dave Odmark, Barry Hendler, Rick Reeder, Mike Erwin, Frank Wright, Andy La Dow and Tim Winslow of Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial have been recognized as being among the top Grubb brokers nationally.
Hobson was named the top affiliate companywide and Odmark took the number two spot.
The annual Circle of Excellence event was held in Maui, Hawaii, April 28-May 1.
To qualify for Circle of Excellence, brokerage sales professionals must fulfill the highest production standards set by the company, which typically results in honoring the top 5 to 8 percent of all company professionals.
Eric Northbrook, an executive director with Cushman & Wakefield and founder of HeadNorth Foundation, a San Diego-based nonprofit foundation, received the 2009 Presidents' Community Service Award from the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) at the 2009 SIOR Spring World Conference held in San Diego on May 1st.
Northbrook founded the HeadNorth Foundation, which raises research monies for those with spinal cord injuries, in 2006 after becoming paralyzed from a motorcycle accident.
Since its establishment HeadNorth has raised more than $3 million to provide essential support and guidance to individuals and families affected by spinal cord injury.
A 20-year veteran in real estate, Northbrook received the Cushman & Wakefield Chairman's Circle Award in 2005, 2007 and 2008 for being a top producer nationwide.
Milo Hama, a senior project manager at Carlsbad-based Allgire General Contractors, has recently been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accreditation.
Hama joined Allgire's construction team in the spring of 2008 bringing with him a 28-year career in construction management and architecture.
He currently is managing the $6.3 million construction of Citron Court, a 36-unit affordable apartment complex with retail/commercial space at 7385 Broadway Street in Lemon Grove and a $4.5 million project for The Palomar Apartments Rehabilitation consisting of 168 units and located at 171 Palomar Street, Chula Vista.
Michael Glickstein has joined NAI San Diego as a vice president specializing in the acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial investment properties throughout San Diego.
Prior to joining NAI San Diego, Glickstein was the number one salesperson during his seven years at GVA IPC.
James Jam, of Prudential California Realty's Rancho Santa Fe branch, was recently recognized as the No. 1 Individual Agent at Prudential California Realty, San Diego, in production for 2008.
Jam was also recognized as one of the top 100 agents, out of 62,000, in the Prudential Real Estate network nationwide.
The twenty-year real estate veteran joined Prudential in 2005.
Maria Velasquez has been named to fill the newly-created position of vice president of community relations for the San Diego Housing Commission.
As spokesperson for the agency, Velasquez' new responsibilities include planning, directing and implementing comprehensive outreach programs and activities in the areas of community, government and media relations.
Most recently, Velasquez headed the communications division of the 300-member public law firm in the San Diego City Attorney's Office from 2001-2008, working under two administrations for former City Attorneys Casey Gwinn and Michael Aguirre.
One of her major accomplishments was the conceptualization and development of a complete media strategy for the pioneering San Diego Family Justice Center.
