CHICAGO—LM Commercial Real Estate has just hired Amy Hall as its new senior vice president of organization and people. Hall has nearly 20 years of commercial real estate experience and company officials say she will lead an aggressive expansion of the firm's brokerage division in the Chicago area.

LM Commercial Real Estate, a Clarendon Hills, IL- based broker of office, retail, multi-family and industrial properties, plans to expand its brokerage operations across all property types and deepen its market penetration. The firm currently serves the Chicago metro and Northwest Indiana area with more than 150 assignments.

Hall brings an extensive background in commercial retail real estate as well as significant experience in sales training and talent development.

“Amy Hall is a highly regarded professional who brings a tremendous amount of experience and enthusiasm to our expansion efforts at LM Commercial Real Estate,” says Tad Lagestee, president and co-founder of LM Commercial Real Estate and its affiliate company, Lagestee-Mulder. “We are confident that she will hit the ground running and help us expand our footprint—in the number of brokers and volume of new listings—across the Chicago metropolitan area.”

Hall will oversee recruitment of new brokers in the office, retail and industrial sectors, as well as training, performance management and strategic planning for the company. The firm, which currently has 12 agents, expects to add an additional four brokerage professionals by the end of the year.

Most recently, Hall was senior director of local leasing for GK Development, Inc., a retail ownership, management and development firm, based in suburban Barrington. She led the local and specialty leasing, ancillary income, mall promotional marketing, and sponsorship initiatives for more than six million square feet of space across seven enclosed regional shopping centers and seven open air centers in nine states.

In past leasing roles, she added hundreds of millions of dollars in value and more than one million square feet of small shop retail tenants through leasing, specialty leasing and sponsorship initiatives. She received the 2012 Woman of Achievement Award by the Women in Management Fox Valley Chapter and was named 2013 Specialty Leasing Director of the Year for her efforts by ICSC, formerly Specialty Retail Report.

Hall is also an instructor at the University of Shopping Centers Wharton School, as well as the John T. Riordan Schools for Retail Real Estate Professionals in Scottsdale, AZ, and Miami. She was the co-chair for the first NOI+ conference and continues to sit on the planning committee for this ICSC conference.

Hall brings an extensive background in commercial retail real estate as well as significant experience in sales training and talent development.

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