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Retail Dynasty: Family-Run CBL Thrives Under Stephen Lebovitz

As a real estate expert and Harvard Business School management professor, Arthur Segel is in demand around the world as a guest lecturer. But since he took over the reins of CBL & Associates three years ago, he’s also shepherded the company through the aftermath of a difficult recession.

May – Briefs/People

Coradino Named CEO of PREIT; MacEachron Joins Rockefeller; Sabatier Named President of Destination Hotels & Resorts; Voit Hires Mark Read; C&W Appoints New EMEA CEO; Richard Putnam Joins Colliers;
Grosvenor Names Walters Managing Director in Philly; First Washington Realty Names Joshua Brown EVP.

Former Grubb CEO Thomas D’Arcy Named Chief at American Realty Capital Trust

Could Grubb & Ellis 2.0 be shaping up under the American Realty Capital umbrella?

Zell, Mack Talk Leverage, Recovery at Schack REIT Conference

In an annual REIT conference sponsored by New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, Sam Zell and William Mack offered several hundred real estate professionals and NYU students their views on leverage, consolidation and the industry’s uneven recovery.

Quest for Growth Tops Agenda at NYU-Schack REIT Conference

Where is the growth in an age of uncertainty? Some of the industry’s most influential leaders wrestled with that timely question Thursday at the annual REIT conference organized by New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.

Glenn Rufrano on the 2012 Global Outlook

Glenn Rufrano, CEO of services firm Cushman & Wakefield Inc., discusses the modest upswing the global commercial property markets will see in 2012.

April – Briefs/People

Inland Real Estate Investment names Conlon CEO; Realty Income elects McKee Non-Executive Chairman; Simon joins Kilroy as EVP; Collins becomes Equity Office regional operations director; Wells names Kennedy president & COO; Wells names Kennedy president & COO; Greystar appoints Hutchinson senior managing director; Kaufman joins KBS as SVP.

Around the Industry: Hirings and Promotions

News from around the industry: JLL gains two managing directors and an SVP; Cresa hires a new SVP; and Red Mortgage Capital, Rockefeller Development Group and Avison Young all add to their offices as well.

Wheeler to Run JLL's Lower Manhattan Office

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. sees big prospects blossoming in Lower Manhattan, and the commercial real estate services firm has just assigned managing director John Wheeler, a longtime JLL employee with nearly three decades of experience, the task of spearheading the office’s increasing penetration of the submarket.

HFF Founders, Top Execs Join CBRE

CBRE made four huge personnel pickups: Harold Holliday, John Fenoglio, David Aaronson and James Richards will join the firm as executive vice presidents. All four will be based in the Houston office and will work on debt and equity-financing deals for clients in the region.