UPDATE: CoStar’s People of Note (June 2) – GBT Hires Porter, C&W Commerce Adds Hillis…

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GBT Realty Taps Porter to Head New Value-Add Division

By Shannon Turner


GBT Realty has hired Scott Porter as a managing director to oversee its new value-add division and strategically target safe, service-oriented retail growth opportunities.

Porter brings nearly two decades of real estate experience, including debt and equity, joint ventures, acquisitions and private equity. Prior to GBT Realty, Porter was working as a consultant with Rockpoint Group LLC and before that he was at Regency Centers.

C&W Commerce Hires Hillis as Senior Director

By Jake Bazluke


Mike Hillis, SIOR, CCIM has joined the St. George, UT office of Cushman & Wakefield Commerce as a senior director. In his this role, he will specialize industrial leasing and sales.

Hillis spent 12 years as a broker with Cushman & Wakefield Commerce’s Salt Lake City office before serving as managing partner in the company’s Las Vegas office from 2006 to 2012.

LRC Realty Adds Darling to Team

By Ace Chapman

Chase Darling has joined Akron, OH-based LRC Realty as vice president. Darling will assist company president Frank Licata with identifying and managing commercial real estate opportunities in Columbus and the surrounding areas.

Darling spent the last five years with DDR Corp. as both the peripheral land director for the Midwest and Southern markets, and also as a leasing director. His career also includes three years at KW Lang Mechanical, where he served as a project manager.

HFF Taps Director in Austin

By Michael Durst

Chris McColpin has rejoined HFF as a director in the firm’s Austin, TX office, specializing in debt and equity placement transactions for all property types.

McColpin broke into the commercial real estate industry in 2005 as an analyst with HFF’s Dallas office. Since that time, the 12-year industry veteran has worked on loan origination teams at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs & Co. Most recently, he led originations for Lone Star Funds’ credit affiliate LStar Capital’s Southwest region.

Cite Partners Adds Retail Brokerage Team

By Jamie Knofczynski

Signature Associates Adds Sales Associate to Ranks

By Shontae Dennis-Scott

Signature Associates has added Marvin Petrous as a sales associate with the firm’s retail division in its metro Detroit, MI office.

Petrous’ primary focus will be representing owners on the Westside of metro Detroit in negotiables of retail leasing and sales. Petrous brings more than 20 years of experience in the commercial real industry, with a specialty in retail leasing and sales transactions.

CBRE Charlotte Expands Capital Markets Team

By Caleb Thomas

CBRE Charlotte has bolstered its capital markets team with the addition of Grayson Hawkins (pictured, right) as an analyst and the promotion of former analyst Matt Smith to an associate.

Joining the team from Atlanta, Hawkins will assist the team in the sale of office, industrial and mixed-use properties throughout the Carolinas, while Smith will support the team’s ongoing sales activity in a production role.