SAN FRANCISCO-Commercial real estate veteran Tim Grant has joined Avison Young to help expand the firm's Bay Area presence to serve the San Francisco Peninsula market. Grant brings more than 35 years of industry experience in multiple markets in California, including Newport Beach/Irvine, Ventura County and, for the last 16 years, the San Francisco Peninsula.
Effective immediately, Grant joins Avison Young as a SVP in the San Mateo office, and will continue his work as an office property specialist involved in tenant representation, project leasing and investment sales.
“Tim brings a broad spectrum of relationships and carries an unmatched degree of professionalism and integrity in all of his business dealings,” explains Randy Keller, principal and managing director of the San Mateo office. “He has earned the highest respect of the business community as well as his peers in the commercial brokerage practice during his long and successful career.”
Grant has spent the last 32 years as an office specialist at CBRE in two regions—the last 16 years on the Peninsula. Since moving to Northern California in 1997, he has been involved in nearly $1.7 billion in transactions on the Peninsula including 800-plus leases totaling more than 5.6 million square feet plus a dozen major institutional investment sales.
Some of his notable achievements include the initial lease-up and sale of the 360,000-square-foot Pacific Plaza in Daly City, and representing Virgin America while working alongside SAMCEDA to land Virgin America's headquarters in Burlingame over three other major US markets.
More recently, Grant helped secure two tenants to occupy 145,000 square feet on five floors at Centennial Towers in South San Francisco, including SAP/Success Factors.
“I am truly excited to have the opportunity to be a part of a client-centric firm of Avison Young's caliber,” Grant says. “The company embraces the kind of hands-on style that brings everyone in the organization together to produce the best results for clients. It's a refreshing attitude in our business.”
Avison Young continues to be in expansion mode not just on the west coast, but around the country. As GlobeSt.com previously reported, most recently, the firm opened a new office in Greenville, and also added to the project management team in New Jersey. In addition, earlier this month, the firm acquired Witherspoon & Carswell Commercial Real Estate Advisors and its sister company L&W Commercial Property Management and opened a new office in Tampa, FL.
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