Office scouts are scouring for space in central and southernFlorida, Minneapolis and Calgary, Canada. In the past year,Staubach has opened stateside offices in Austin, Bethesda, MD,Columbus, Detroit and Phoenix plus unveiled a South American lineupin Bogota, Colombia, Caracas, Venezuela, Lima, Peru and Sao Paulo,Brazil.

"The business is demanding we have a more concentratedcoverage," Leslie explains of the drive to integrate Staubach'sbranding into a single worldwide culture. The push had gotten underway in January with the launching of Staubach SAC, which covers theSouth American and Caribbean market, and DTZ Staubach Tie Leung,responsible for Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The LatinAmerican inroad represents the crowning of the firm's internationaldrive. Europe and Asia are "pretty well covered," he says,explaining a rounding out of Staubach's four corners-of-the-worldapproach.

Leslie emphasizes the company is being "careful not to expand tocreate a new overhead." It's just that a growing trend for largecorporations to outsource their real estate needs is providing theimpetus for the aggressive rollout, he says. The office openings,such as the one in Phoenix, are being sealed via joint ventureswith existing real estate entities. South America's joint venturehas resulted in Herzog Staubach and Staubach Spanish Americas andCaribbean Ltda. The latest scorecard shows 850 Staubachprofessionals in North America, with access to more than 6,500professionals in 155 cities in a 41-country network. "There's aeuphoric high any time there's expansion," says Leslie, "butthere's not a lot of reason to do much more."