G&E Names New City Manager, Plans Expansion

SEATTLE-Veteran broker and Seattle native Craig Hill is taking on a larger role at Grubb & Ellis here as the brokerage firm looks to regain its position as one of the city’s top commercial real estate services firms.

Hill, most recently the company’s vice president of investment sales and office leasing, has been tapped by Northwest area director Bob Dean to take on the additional role of sales manager, in charge of tripling the number of brokers with the firm to 20 by the end of the year. As part of that plan, Hill this spring is moving G&E’s Downtown Seattle office from 3,000 sf in One Union Square to 6,000 sf in Two Union Square. As well, the company is planning to shrink its 3,000-sf Eastside presence to a 1,000-sf satellite office where brokers can plug into the system without having to return all the way to home base in Downtown Seattle.

“The transaction services side of Grubb & Ellis has gone through some trials and tribulations in Seattle, and a decision has been made to grow the Seattle office back to what it was,” Hill tells GlobeSt.com. “In the 1980s, we were one of the largest brokerage firms in the Northwest in terms of the number of brokers and the number of transactions.”