JACKSONVILLE, FL-Tampa-based Franklin Street has set up shop inJacksonville. Market veteran David Hsieh has signed on as a partnerin the real estate services division to lead the new office. Thecompany also has offices in Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, andAtlanta.

“The Jacksonville office opening continues the trend of FranklinStreet targeting areas and individuals that help build a strongerplatform to help owners and investors in this difficultenvironment,” Andrew Wright, CEO and managing partner of FranklinStreet, tells GlobeSt.com. “Now we have a stronghold in theSoutheast and David will be a cornerstone of our new Jacksonvilleoffice.”

Hsieh comes to Franklin Street from Marcus & Millichap,where he was a vice president in the firm’s Jacksonville office.There he earned the company's National Achievement Award in 2006,and has listed and transacted, statewide and in southern Georgia,more than $300 million in investment real estate since 2004. He wasalso named one of CoStar's Top Ten Powerbrokers in Jacksonville in2004-2007
and 2009.