CHICAGO and SEATTLE—JLL recently announced that it would focus on driving growth through acquisitions, and in the past few months, the Chicago-based firm has been quite active on that front. It has just expanded its real estate leasing services with the acquisition of Washington Partners Inc., a tenant representation firm in Seattle.
“Washington Partners is one of the top-ranked real estate service providers with some of the best tenant representation professionals in the market and we're delighted to combine our two firms in this way,” says JLL market director Joe Smurdon. “The combination of Washington Partners' tenant representation expertise with our own expands our presence in the Greater Puget Sound market and further enhances our services to our clients.”
A total of 15 professionals, including 11 brokers, will join JLL's existing 58 employees in Seattle and work closely with Smurdon. They include Ed Curtis, Doug Hanafin, Pat Pendergast and Clay Nielsen, who co-founded Washington Partners in 1997, as well as partners Larry Almeleh, Mark To, Mark Fox and Adam Chapman. Also joining are Blair Stern, Kevin Harris and Darrick Thompson.
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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.
