{"id":1004051849,"date":"2012-04-29T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T01:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=45559"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:43:43","slug":"lee-associates-expands-florida-presence-opens-orlando-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/lee-associates-expands-florida-presence-opens-orlando-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee &amp; Associates Expands Florida Presence, Opens Orlando Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>By Georgiana Mihaila, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to an official statement, Lee &amp; Associates\u2014one of the largest full-service commercial real estate firms in the country\u2014will soon be taking another important step in establishing the firm\u2019s presence in Florida and the Southeast. Along with the firm\u2019s merger with Southern Commercial Real Estate Advisors, LLC, Lee &amp; Associates Central Florida has been created, marking the organization\u2019s fifth new Lee office in the Southeast in the past 13 months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45560\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2012\/04\/lee-and-associates-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhen evaluating the long-term goals of Southern Commercial, we realized that we\u00a0needed to grow but we did not want to lose our identity and the culture which enabled our success to date,\u201d said Bradford and McFadden in a joint statement. \u201cThe merger with Lee &amp; Associates complemented our needs perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Located at 4700 Millenia Blvd., Suite 200, Orlando, the office is headed by Southern Commercial\u2019s founding principals William \u201cBo\u201d Bradford, Jr., CCIM, SIOR, and Tom McFadden, SIOR. The two will be assisted by longtime colleagues Moses Salcido, SIOR, John Pottinger and Sher Tolan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cOur goal in all of our expansion efforts is to merge with the best brokerage firms in every market. This has been realized with the addition of Tom, Bo and the others at Southern Commercial,\u201d said Edward Indvik, CEO of Lee &amp; Associates. \u201cTheir reputation as the top brokerage firm in the industrial markets in Central Florida is uncontested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Bradford and McFadden launched Southern Commercial Real Estate Advisors in 2007 with one client and 400,000 square feet of assignments. Prior to the merger, Southern Commercial had grown to more than nine million SF of assignments and represented an additional 2.1 million SF of planned industrial inventory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lee &amp; Associates Central Florida comes four months after the establishment of the Naples\/Ft. Myers office and a whirlwind of new office activity in the past 18 months including new locations in New York City, Charleston and Greenville, S.C., Kansas City, Kan., Atlanta and Indianapolis. The Orlando office currently specializes in industrial, but plans on expanding to all disciplines, adding retail, office, land and investment sales as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For more Orlando news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multihousingnews.com\/news\/south\/market-snapshot-transaction-velocity-picks-up-speed-in-orlando\/1004045235.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an official statement, Lee &amp; Associates&mdash;one of the largest full-service commercial real estate firms in the country&mdash;will soon be taking another important step in establishing the firm&rsquo;s presence in Florida and the Southeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21742,1493],"tags":[1815,39399],"class_list":["post-1004051849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-orlando","tag-national","tag-orlando"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lee &amp; 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