Patrick Toomey Patrick Toomey is the new senior managing director in Faris Lee’s El Segundo office.

LOS ANGELES—Retail specialist Faris Lee is planting new roots in the Los Angeles market. The Orange County-based firm is opening its first L.A. office in El Segundo, where the firm will be able to focus on coastal clients and more complex deals. New hire and 30-year retail veteran Patrick Toomey, formerly of Matthews Retail Group, will lead the new office as senior managing director. To find out about the move, we sat down with Toomey for an exclusive interview. Here, he tells us why this is the right time to be in L.A., where his clients are finding the best opportunities in the retail market and his goals for the new office.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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