NEW YORK CITY-A prominent California-based commercial real estate services firm is hitching its wagon to a larger company, GlobeSt.com has learned. In an effort to expand its West Coast and global footprint, Bakersfield, CA-based Pacific Commercial Realty Advisors – a company with CBRE roots – has signed an agreement with Manhattan-based Cushman & Wakefield to become part of the firm’s Americas Alliance Program.

As part of the partnership, Pacific will join C&W’s association of 35 independently owned and operated commercial real estate firms. The company will also have access to 76 strategic markets in the Americas, Joseph M. Vargas, EVP and area leader of the west region at C&W’s L.A. office., tells GlobeSt.com.

“It creates seamless geographic coverage for California,” Vargas tells GlobeSt.com. “From a geographic standpoint, it connects our Southern California offices in the Central Valley up to Sacramento and the Bay area. In addition, we’ve aligned ourselves with some very talented commercial real estate professionals that excel in all disciplines in the business, from office, industrial and retail. It gives us the ability to further service our clients with best of class services in the Central Valley.”