AUSTIN-Yancey-Hausman is ramping up its retail efforts in Austin, moving Tom Pagel from Houston to be retail vice president in the Capital City.

In its dozen years in Austin, Yancey-Hausman has been involved in significant office projects, Pagel says, but not a lot of retail. “Part of the reason for me to come up here is to help them build that piece of the business,” he tells GlobeSt.com. “We all know that the office market is pretty soft right now. Retail has done reasonably and as long as Austin continues to grow residentially that there will continue to be retail demand.”

Pagel says most of the retailers he talked to at the International Council of Shopping Centers in Las Vegas were interested in Austin. “After Austin MSA reached a million and a half people, I think it got on the radar screen with bunch of retailers where it hadn’t been before,” he assesses.

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