PHOENIX-Following nearly two years of courtship, a CB RichardEllis team has moved its office-market acumen to ColliersInternational Inc. Charles Miscio and Keith Lambeth come on boardas senior vice presidents while Todd Noel gets a vice president'stitle and Michael Crystal starts as senior associate.

Mike Fitz-Gerald, managing director for Colliers' Phoenixoffice, says the quartet's hiring is consistent with a plan tocontinue growing and place greater emphasis in the coming year onstrengthening its presence in the office market. “We've made giantstrides in the past year in the office sector on the investmentside. The Miscio team will help us dramatically increase ourexposure in the market,” he says. “We already have excellent teamson staff, but because of the strength of the Phoenix office market,we really need four or five groups concentrating on differentsegments to be players in that market.”

Fitz-Gerald says the team enhances Colliers' platform because ofits strength in building owner services and tenant representation.“All of this is geared to move us into a dominant role in theoffice market going forward,” Fitz-Gerald adds.