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DALLAS-Granite Properties, with a hard focus on the future, is scouring the streets for a "known commodity" to lead leasing, support development and investment initiatives for its steadily growing industrial portfolio in Dallas/Fort Worth.

Granite's top executives already have met with the region's senior brokers to get input and recommendations. "Ideally, it will be someone who has five to 10 years' experience who wants to take their career to the next level--a known commodity in the industrial arena," says Gregory P. Fuller, Granite's managing director in Dallas. Though the hunt's just begun, interviews will begin in a few weeks. Fuller tells GlobeSt.com that he wants the industrial leasing manager in place by the second quarter.

Fuller says the time has come to bring leasing in house after three years of working the region's industrial circuit. The Granite pipeline holds 750,000 sf in various development stages in Fort Worth, Flower Mound and Denton, but the master plan calls for adding four million sf to five million sf of new and existing space in North Texas within five years. "We're getting closer and closer to purchasing existing product in Dallas," Fuller says, citing the importance of getting a results-driven exec in place to turn up the heat on the campaign. "We think we can accelerate our program quicker than we could have otherwise."