Middle Market Digest: North West

Below is GlobeSt.com’s bi-weekly update on the middle markets throughout the North West region. Here’s a look at the latest news, announcements and deals that you may have missed from areas including: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California.

NEWS & NOTABLES 

CENTRAL VALLEY, CA—CBRE Group Inc. announces that Robert Taylor has joined CBRE as senior vice president with the Central Valley Industrial Practice group. Taylor who specializes in tenant and landlord representation within the California Central Valley industrial market (Stockton to Bakersfield) focuses on facility optimization, supply chain logistics and solutions analysis, incentives, warehouse/distribution and Capital Markets.  Taylor will be working closely with Tom Davis, senior vice president, who joined CBRE in January to lead the Central Valley Industrial Practice group as well as Dave Brennan, senior managing director of CBRE’s Sacramento, Central Valley and Northern Nevada offices in addition to leading CBRE’s Northwest Industrial Network.

SAN FRANCISCO—In other CBRE news, CBRE Group Inc. recently revealed that CBRE Capital Markets has strengthened its multifamily investment sales practice in Northern California with the formation of a dedicated team in the Bay Area. The new team will be led by Matt Kroger and Jef Henderson, executive vice presidents, who will focus on investment property and land sales for institutional and private owners in the region. Mr. Kroger and Mr. Henderson have more than 27 years of combined industry experience serving institutional and private clients throughout the Bay Area, with an emphasis on San Francisco, The Peninsula, Oakland and Silicon Valley. The team’s experience includes the sale and leasing of more than 20 million square feet of existing assets; and the sale of development sites representing nearly 12,000 residential units and nearly five million square feet of office product.