MIAMI—Franklin Street is beefing up its Miami retail team.The commercial real estate firm just hired Robert Granda as director of retail investment sales for the South Florida market.

Granda will join forces with Franklin Street's Greg Matus, regional managing partner in South Florida, and retail investment associate, Peter Crane. He will also assist in building the team by recruiting retail brokers for the firm and focus on the acquisition and disposition of multi-tenant and single-tenant retail properties throughout South Florida.

"We are thrilled to have a person of Robert's caliber on our team, especially at a time when the South Florida retail market is on fire," says Matus. "He comes to us with significant experience and a great personal brand in the market. We are excited about the continued growth of the firm and will be announcing some other new-hires very soon."