INLAND EMPIRE, CA-GlobeSt.com has learned exclusively that Voit Real Estate Services has added three SVPs and a marketing assistant to its retail team here. Tom Swieca, Tony Archer and Sandie Smith, all formerly with Grubb & Ellis, will join the company, each with more than a decade of expertise in tenant representation and shopping-center leasing and sales in both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. In addition, Dianna Bernard joins the joins the firm as a marketing assistant with the new team.
“Voit has rapidly picked up speed in the Inland Empire market,” says Mark Read, executive managing director for Voit. “The addition of this expert team is a testament to Voit’s success in recruiting and retaining top professionals in each of the markets we serve.”
Swieca and Archer have been partners in the commercial real estate industry for more than 15 years and have represented both landlords and tenants in significant retail centers throughout the Inland Empire, including major retailers such as Home Depot, Stater Bros. and O’Reilly Auto Parts. The two also represent over 1 million square feet of new retail development, scheduled to break ground in 2013.
Swieca has more than 32 years of commercial real estate experience and has completed more than $1 billion in sales and leasing transactions throughout his career. Prior to joining Voit, he served as a SVP in the retail group at G&E.
Archer brings two decades of commercial real estate expertise to Voit. He most recently served in the retail group at G&E and has completed more than $600 million in sales and lease transactions.
Smith served as SVP at G&E for the past two years and was previously with CBRE for over 20 years. Smith has been involved in more than $748 million in retail transactions encompassing more than 1.28 million square feet during her tenure with G&E and CBRE. She assists many national retailers in securing sites, including AT&T, Baja Fresh, Chipotle, McDonald’s, Panera Bread and Panda Express, among others. Smith continues to handle the leasing for many shopping centers, and she aids major retailers in property disposition, such as Wal-Mart and Rite Aid.
As GlobeSt.com previously reported, earlier this month, BGC Partners Inc. closed its acquisition of assets of G&E following the recent approval of the transaction by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. BGC is rapidly integrating Newmark Knight Frank, which it acquired in October 2011, with G&E, forming Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, its new full-service commercial real estate platform.
Also as GlobeSt.com previously reported, in March Voit added Read to the position of executive managing director to manage and lead Voit’s Irvine office as well as oversee the company’s Orange County, Los Angeles and Inland Empire operations. At that time, the firm also appointed Donald Morrow as managing director of the firm’s Phoenix operations.
Read now tells GlobeSt.com that the new retail team greatly enhances Voit’s ability to serve retail owner and tenant clients in a dynamic Southern California market area. “They expand our retail capability in California, which now extends from Northern California to San Diego.”
More new hires are planned for the company, and it is aggressively looking for top professionals in the Inland Empire as well as the firm’s other offices, Read adds. “In addition to our traditional strength with industrial and office owners and occupiers, we are making great progress in retail (as evidenced above). We are also planning a move into multi-housing, which fits perfectly with our culture and regional network of offices.”
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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.
