Brokers Buying Into ChainLinks' Fast Track

What do El Paso, Albuquerque and Little Rock, AR., have in common? They are the next stops in the nation’s largest retail-only service provider’s bid to secure one real estate partnership in every major city and most secondary ones in the US.

Troy Peple, president of ChainLinks Retail Advisors Inc., hopes to seal the deals in the near future in a sweeping strategy to complete the company’s transition from a non-profit association into a for-profit operation by the end of second quarter 2001. In September, ChainLinks will finalize a partnership with MyShopping.com, the first deal that’s not a traditional bricks-and- mortar retailer. In recent weeks, ChainLinks has signed Anchor Associates in Cincinnati, Corporate Realty in New Orleans, Pace Properties Inc. in St. Louis and Ripco Real Estate in Conshohocken, PA.

By the end of this year, ChainLinks will have 400 brokers on board – 100 more than the present roster – Peple told Globe.St.com during a break in his one-day visit to Dallas, where he was interviewing management applicants and plotting strategies with the Gallier and Wittenberg public relations agency. Peple was brought on board last year to build – not expand – ChainLinks into a national real estate company from its 20-year non-profit association status. Brokers are buying into ChainLinks and securing stock in the operation in exchange for the for-profit networking potential.