Strategy
PARIC Corporation is taking steps to increase its reach beyond eastern Missouri, but doing so has required a renewed focus on the hiring and training of new personnel
Carole Jurkash talks directly about how she, as DTZ’s senior vice president and general counsel, manages the real estate advisory firm’s risks, advocating for project managers as consultants rather than construction managers
CenterPoint Properties staked its reputation—and millions of dollars—on financing and developing the two largest intermodal rail facilities in America, and now it’s expanding with a high-profile government project
Since joining Meritage Homes as its award-winning general counsel, he has melded his past experience in private practices with his passion for homebuilding
Thomas Gannon brought American Express’s planning and construction workforce in-house, and now it’s creating everything from flexible office spaces to luxury airport lounges
General counsel Michael Pfeiffer managed a merger that made his company, Realty Income Corporation, the largest publicly traded net-lease REIT in the nation, and, in his spare time, he helped acquire properties worth a total of $25 billion—all in 2013.
The open, engaging, amenities-littered design of Adobe’s Lehi, UT, campus is catching on company-wide, so director of global workplace solutions Jonathan Francom is overseeing its worldwide implementation
“Protect This House: I Will” is the sports-apparel company’s mantra, and the man in charge of its international “houses,” Neil Jurgens, translates the CEO’s vision of aggressive growth into flexible work spaces focused on employee behavior
When global conglomerate Siemens divided its real estate division into four regional offices in 2012, Michael Kruklinski was chosen to lead the Americas branch. He immediately set about refocusing it to ensure the company and its clients are at the cutting edge of progress and innovation.
PMA Properties purchased the venue with the intention of converting it into a mixed-use retail center, but in peeling back the space’s nearly 100-year-old layers, it found historical charm and hidden elements that revised its renovation plans