SEATTLE—Anjee Solanki has been named to thenewly created position of national director, retail services | USAat Colliers International, GlobeSt.com has learnedexclusively. Solanki will lead the Retail ServicesGroup at Colliers, which comprises more than 400 professionalsacross 83 markets in the disciplines of brokerage, capital marketsand management services.

Solanki, who joined Seattle-based Colliers four years ago,previously served as vice chair of the RSG alongsideSolomon Ets-Hokin, and focused on retail realestate management services. She brings more than 20 years' ofexperience—along with a client list that includesHeitman, Grosvenor CapitalManagement, PNC, ClarionPartners, American Realty Advisors andTIAA-CREF—to her new role.

“Since joining Colliers in 2010, Anjee has established a trackrecord of taking a holistic approach to real estate by bringingtogether resources from across service lines and geographies tohelp solve business problems for both institutional clients andretailers,” says Craig Robinson, president | USAof Colliers. He adds that Solanki's “access to the real estate, aswell as her strategic, forward-thinking solutions, made her theclear choice for the national director role.”

For her part, Solanki says RSG team members recognize that “theend-user is the customer shopping in stores. We use thatunderstanding to help tenants and institutional clients make soundreal estate decisions based on those needs. It's not about simplyfinding a space or tenant to fill a store; it's about taking a360-degree look at the consumer, the brand and its products andcrafting a solution through real estate.”