JLL Woos Region's Top-Producing Industrial Team

Audley Bosch has just jumped from Cushman & Wakefield to JLL.

MIAMI— JLL has recruited the region’s top-producing industrial brokerage team. Brian Smith and Audley Bosch have switched allegiances, just after inking a 550,000-square-foot lease that sets the stage for Telemundo Enterprises/NBC Universal’s world headquarters and studio campus in west Miami-Dade county. “Brian and Audley have developed important client relationships and bring deep expertise in completing complex transactions in what has become one of the world’s fastest-growing industrial markets,” says JLL managing director Alan Kleber . “Most important, Brian and Audley approach each relationship as true advisors to their client, whether it’s an institutional owner, private client or multinational company.” JLL wooing Smith and Bosch marks the latest in a series of big moves for the firm in South Florida. JLL acquired tenants-only Cresa South Florida in mid-December and installed office agency veteran Eric Groffman as executive vice president in February. Smith previously served as executive director and Bosch as senior director at Cushman & Wakefield. The duo specializes in the industry property sales and leasing. Over the past 20 years, Smith has been involved in many of South Florida’s largest industrial transactions, handling more than $2 billion in deals during his career. “Our biggest driver for making this move was the team JLL brought together, including Matthew Goodman and Alan Kleber, Matthew Cheezem and John Marshall , who I worked with for 10 years earlier in my career,” Smith stells GlobeSt.com. “Nationally JLL’s platform and industrial service line is top tier. The local team, leadership and the resources the firm employs are all truly best in class.” The Smith-Bosch team represents some of the region’s largest industrial real estate owners, including Prologis . They oversee the leasing and marketing of almost 6 million square feet of warehouse space across Miami-Dade mostly for Prologis, including Beacon Lakes, a world-class business park totaling 478 acres. Some major transactions in recent years include the lease-up of 500,000 square feet of space at Doral’s Beacon at 97th on behalf of owner KTR and the $76.5 million acquisition of the 1 million-square-foot Palmetto Tradeport business park, on behalf of Prologis. “It’s an exciting time for those of us who are in the business of selling and leasing warehouse space,” Smith says. “We are experiencing a true tipping point right before our eyes. South Florida, especially Miami, has solidified itself as one of the most important industrial markets in the UU. Look no further than the amount of large build-to-suit prospects in the market today. This really only occurs in mature markets where institutional ownership has large, concentrated holdings. Miami-Dade County now has warehouses filled with products from the biggest names in corporate America.”