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Kidder Mathews Expands to Bay Area Via Merger

SEATTLE-Washington State's largest brokerage firm pushes on through to the Bay Area by picking up Whitney Cressman, a fellow GVA affiliate with one office in Downtown San Francisco.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on September 15, 2006

SEATTLE-Locally based Kidder Mathews, the largest commercial brokerage firm in Washington State, is reaching further down the West Coast. Three years after expanding to Portland, OR, the five-office, 120-broker firm has merged with Whitney Cressman, a longtime Bay Area brokerage firm with one office in Downtown San Francisco.

GVA Kidder Mathews CEO Jeffrey Lyon tells GlobeSt.com that as a result of the merger the two principals of Whitney Cressman–Leland Whitney and Stan Cohn–are now shareholders of GVA Kidder Mathews. Next month, GVA Whitney Cressman will be re-branded as a GVA Kidder Mathews office. Neither of the Whitney Cressman principals was immediately available Friday morning for comment.

“It will make us stronger as a combined company and as a market leader having one brand,” Lyon says. “Because of our market position and the depth of resources we are brining to the table, it made sense to make [that one brand] GVA Kidder Mathews.”

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