PHOENIX-Continuing its expansion into the market here, Jones Lang LaSalle has added industrial real experts Tony Lydon and Marc Hertzberg to its industrial brokerage team and Brian Ackerman to the capital markets group.

Both Lydon and Hertzberg will join as managing directors. They are recognized as top brokers in the marketplace having collectively facilitated more than $1.5 billion in industrial transactions nationwide.

Ackerman will join JLL as a senior vice president. He will specialize in the acquisition and disposition of office and industrial property throughout Arizona.

“Tony and Marc bring immediate name recognition and a level of expertise to our office,” says Dennis Desmond, senior managing director of JLL’s local office. “Not only are they well versed in their profession, they're just good guys. They bring that reputation with them.”

Desmond tells GlobeSt. that Ackerman adds “strength and balance to the Phoenix capital markets team.” He says: “His presence allows us to best leverage our resources and act quickly when the market presents opportunity. Brian also has an exceptional reputation that other brokers know and trust.”

Lydon and Hertzberg specialize in serving corporate real estate users, institutional owners and entrepreneurs throughout the U.S., focusing on metropolitan Phoenix. They bring more than 50 years of collective experience in industrial real estate.  

Lydon has been named a Top Industrial Broker by the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), Industrial Broker of the Year by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and a “Power Broker” by CoStar Group and Commercial Property News.

In the past six years, Hertzberg has completed more than 300 transactions. In 2009, this included industrial deals with an aggregate value of almost $100 million. He is ranked among Phoenix’s top brokers and is recognized as a “Power Broker” by CoStar Group and Real Estate Forum.

Ackerman has been involved in the sale of more than 7.3 million square feet of property and $1.2 billion in transaction volume during his career.

In Phoenix, JLL employs more than 300 industry experts. The local office offers office and industrial brokerage, tenant representation, facility and investment management, capital markets and development services.

In 2009, it completed 3.2 million square feet in lease transactions and directed $60 million in project management. It currently has 13.5 million square feet under management.

“Our most fundamental goal is to build something to the equivalent of what was already here, which is the strongest group of tenant rep brokers in the Valley,” Desmond says. “They had an excellent, established reputation as Staubach. We are building comparably skilled teams of brokers around that core and creating a scope of services that includes office and industrial leasing, capital markets and eventually property management.”

Desmond points out that JLL recently hired Don Mudd and John Bonnell, one of the premier office leasing teams in the city. “Tony and Marc are a powerhouse in the local industrial market and so duplicate our efforts on the industrial side,” he says. “Brian gets us even closer to our overall goal.”