Earlier this month, numerous properties in the Freight House District and in the 3700 block of Main Street were auctioned off to the highest bidders. Recently we caught up with Gib Kerr, who handled the sales along with David E. Gilmore and DonErler of Sperry Van Ness.
How did the auction go?
The recent auction generated a [...]
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Q&A with Kerr on Levitt auction
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Q&A with Zimmer’s Deborah Field at Union Station
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Debora H. Field, Vice President of Sales and Leasing for Zimmer Real Estate Services, L.C., has an interesting job these days — working with a team to bring tenants to one of Kansas City’s most famous landmarks: Union Station. Field (above at Union Station), who has 30 years of commercial real estate experience, answered questions [...]
Q&A with Lee Harris of Cohen-Esrey
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010R. Lee Harris is the President and CEO of Cohen-Esrey Real Estate Services, LLC, a national leader in everything from property management to tax credit investments; from construction management to affordable housing development. He joined Cohen-Esrey right after graduating in 1975 from Kansas State University, where he earned a bachelor’s of science degree in economics. [...]
Q&A with Greg Duvall of NorthMarq
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Greg Duvall is a Senior Vice President and Senior Director in NorthMarq Capital’s (NorthMarq) Kansas City Regional office. NorthMarq is a privately owned national commercial mortgage banking business headquartered in Minneapolis, providing many services for commercial real estate owners, occupiers, and investors, including brokerage, property management and industry-leading capital market solutions.
Duvall, a Kansas City area native and [...]
Q&A with Matt Eckert
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Matt Eckert, a vice president with Cassidy Turley in Kansas City, has extensive experience in landlord and tenant representation with lease negotiations, purchase negotiations, build-to-suit coordination, corporate services, consulting and subleasing. He advises clients on both a local and national basis.
He began his commercial real estate career in 2001 in Dallas, but returned to Kansas [...]
Q&A with Chase Simmons
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010With construction underway, Polsinelli Shughart PC Attorney Chase Simmons is lead counsel for a new development project in western Wyandotte County that will include the Kansas City Wizards’ new soccer complex and the new regional office for Cerner Corporation.
The development, generally considered the largest economic development project in the history of the state of Kansas, will [...]
Q&A with Mac Crowther
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010With approximately three decades of commercial real estate experience under his belt, Mac Crowther is the principal for Apartment Realty Advisors’ Central office which is based in Kansas City. ARA is the largest privately held, full-service investment advisory brokerage firm in the nation that focuses exclusively on the multi-housing industry. Over his career, Crowther has [...]
Q&A with Brian Beggs
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Brian R. Beggs is currently Director of Acquisitions for Block Real Estate Services and a Principal in all of the Block Funds. He joined Block in January of 2003 as a financial analyst and helped start the Block Funds in July of 2004. Over the past five years, the Block Funds have raised over $55 [...]
Q&A with David Block
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010For more than half a century, David Block’s family has left its stamp on the Kansas City commercial real estate industry. As head of Block & Company Inc. Realtors, David carries on the proud tradition of his father, James Block, who opened the firm with his brother, Allen Block, in the 1940s. From his office [...]
Q&A with Gib Kerr
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Gibson (“Gib”) Kerr, CCIM, serves as a senior advisor for Sperry Van Ness in Kansas City, where he specializes in the sale and leasing of office and investment properties. With over 20 years of commercial real estate experience, Kerr has completed numerous landmark sales in recent years, including the sale of 95 Metcalf Square (151,000 [...]