Erica M. Des Roches was promoted to director of leasing. She oversees the leasing and marketing of Terranova's retail portfolio, which consists of about 45 grocery store-anchored shopping centers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties in South Florida. Currently, her duties include leasing Pembroke Crossing Shopping Center (290,000 sf), Country Isles Plaza (106,343 sf) and Weston Lake Plaza (96,342 sf). Des Roches has been a licensed real estate broker since 1993 and has been with Terranova for seven years.

In addition, Robert Travis was promoted to senior commercial associate for the company. He is responsible for the leasing and management of the 102,000-sf Wachovia Financial Center and the 65,000-sf HMA Building in Naples, FL. Travis has been a commercial associate with Terranova for three years. His past leasing assignments include Mall of the Americas (610,000 sf) in Miami, Biscayne Plaza Shopping Center (200,000 sf) in Miami, Concord Shopping Plaza (199,000 sf) in Miami, Polo Grounds Mall (120,000 sf) in West Palm Beach and Homestead Plaza (112,000 sf) in Homestead.

Also, the company hired: Grace Yan as assistant property manager for two Miami-Dade County properties, Liz Figueroa as management information systems administrator for Terranova's Miami office and Patricia Espinal as human resources/office manager for that office.