GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Kidder Office Opens with 4 Brokers from Insignia

PORTLAND-After narrowing it down to three options, Steven Klein, Insingia’s top Portland executive until just a few days ago, decided Thursday morning to assist Seattle-based Kidder Mathews in gaining instant traction in the Portland market. Joining Klein is Insignia’s other industrial broker, George Slevin, office broker Jim Carver and development services provider Monty Hanes.

Kidder, one of the oldest, largest and most productive brokerage firms in the Seattle area, also recently unaffiliated with Insignia because of its acquisition by CBRE and, after perusing its options, aligned with Chicago-based GVA, which had affiliates in San Francisco and Vancouver B.C. but not in Washington and Oregon. Concurrently, Kidder President Jeff Lyon committed to expanding his operation into Portland.

The new 5,200-sf office opened today on the 6th floor of Equity Office Properties’ Ben Franklin Plaza in Downtown Portland. Lyon told GlobeSt.com earlier this month he was “going to open up an office and see who wants to come join the platform.” On Thursday, lyon said that Coleen Colleary, a retail broker most recently with Cushman & Wakefield, also has joined the firm and that he is happy with the quality and number of brokers he’s been able to attract as of the company’s first day in the market.