Cassidy Turley's Burkhart

A slew of regional service firms recently came together to form Cassidy Turley. Colliers Turley Martin Tucker, Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers, Colliers Pinkard, Colliers ABR, BT Commercial in Northern California, BRE Commercial in Southern California, BRE Commercial in Arizona, and Colliers Houston & Co. of New Jersey all joined forces. And even though they were not identified under one name until now, Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers, Colliers Turley Martin Tucker, Colliers ABR and Colliers Pinkard were merged in August 2008. The new Cassidy Turley now operates on a national platform, and besides brokerage capabilities, it also works nationally in the capital markets and corporate services areas. Mark Burkhart, the St. Louis-based chief executive officer of the group, recently spoke with GlobeSt.com about the merger and the state of the industry.

GlobeSt.com: Why did you decide to make the split from the Collier’s name?

Burkhart: Most of us have been a founding member of Collier’s going back over 25 years. However, the growth of our firm has been substantial over the last four years, and it just got to the point, because we are doing all of this business, that we just have outgrown Collier’s. Because of our national platform of services as well as finding other like-minded partners that are dominant in their respective cities, we really had no choice.