LOS ANGELES-GlobeSt.com has exclusively learned that Dee Eckman has been named a director in Cushman & Wakefield’s corporate-occupier and investor-services department, where she will oversee and expand the firm’s managed portfolio of industrial properties in Southern California.
“We welcome Dee Eckman as a part of our national initiative to expand our managed industrial portfolio,” says Mary Marx, senior managing director of corporate occupier and investor services at C&W.
Marx tells GlobeSt.com, “Dee is a well-known and respected property-management professional in the industrial real estate sector. Cushman & Wakefield is committed to expanding our industrial real estate platform by recruiting the best talent in the industry in order to provide the most excellent service to our clients.”
Eckman was most recently a director with CBRE, where she was responsible for a varied mix of real estate totaling approximately 18 million square feet. In addition, she was responsible for business development, client relationships, strategic planning, partnering with the new development division and the capital markets group to provide complementary services. Prior to that, she was a VP with Trammell Crow Co., where she was responsible for a team of professionals that managed a 12.1 million square-foot portfolio of industrial buildings.
GlobeSt.com was unable to reach Eckman before deadline to discuss her new role and plans for the future with C&W. CBRE declined to comment.
Signs of the industrial sector’s strength in Southern California have been evidenced by some of C&W’s recent transactions. As GlobeSt.com previously reported, earlier this month New Jersey-based Gilbert USA—a leader in supply-chain services for the retail sector—signed a 343,954-square-foot warehouse distribution facility lease at 2849 Ficus St. in Pomona, CA. The deal launched the tenant’s West Coast operations. 360 Commercial Partners managing partner Louis Tomaselli represented Gilbert, while Cushman & Wakefield represented LBA Realty in the transaction.
“This transaction powerfully illustrates the growing recovery in Southern California’s industrial real estate market,” Tomaselli said at the time. “When such industry leaders as Gilbert USA are looking to establish a significant presence here—and institutional real estate players like LBA Realty come to the table ready to transact, it’s a sign that the market is strengthening.”
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Carrie Rossenfeld
Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.
