CINCINNATI—JLL has a strategy to continue growing its retail brokerage services and just announced it will establish that service line in the Great Lakes region by hiring Ohio-based Melissa Ruther and Mary Bresnahan as vice presidents. Steve Yenser will direct the new Midwest team as national retail brokerage lead for JLL. Ruther will work out of Cincinnati and Bresnahan will work in Columbus. Both will focus on all aspects of retail brokerage activity including tenant representation, project leasing, outparcel sales, new development and redevelopment throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
“We expect to establish market leading results in the retail sector, as we have with all of our other service lines in the region,” says J.C. Pelusi, Great Lakes market leader at JLL.
“Melissa and Mary are two of the most respected retail experts in the region, and their addition will create a very strong foundation for our future retail growth,” Yenser adds. “Their extensive local market knowledge and extreme focus on superior client service will create tremendous value for our current and future tenant and landlord clients.”
Ruther has more than a decade of real estate experience, and joins JLL from Edge Real Estate Group, LLC, where she was responsible for tenant representation, development, dispositions and agency leasing. Bresnahan has been involved in the retail brokerage business for more than a decade. She joins JLL from CBRE, where she specialized in lease dispositions, acquisitions of retail developments and tenant representation.
Ruther and Bresnahan represent a wide range of national and local retailers including: Bloomin' Brands, DXL, Cabela's, Chuy's, Marquee Theater, Matt the Miller Restaurant Group, Nationwide, Starbucks, Red Robin, Time Warner and Toys R Us/ Babies R Us.
Yenser joined JLL in January of 2010 to lead the firm's retail local market practice. Since 2012, he has overseen the firm's retail brokerage expansion by adding more than 80 experts in 20 core markets across the country. Yenser will continue to lead the firm's national expansion efforts, and will directly lead the retail efforts in the Great Lakes region.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
