Bendalin spent more than eight years at pension-fund advisorSarofim Realty Advisors, providing asset management services for adiverse portfolio of retail and multifamily properties, and alsosourcing new acquisition opportunities. Most recently, he was withTrammell Crow Company and The Staubach Company as an investmentsales broker selling retail properties in North and Central Texas,Louisiana and Oklahoma.

"I was with Staubach in capital markets and when they werepurchased by JLL, with investment sales activity being down theydidn't have an interest in bringing on [Staubach's] investmentsales team," he tells GlobeSt.com. "And down time is the best timeto start things up, so it's a combination of the two."

Cliffside Realty Advisors is currently marketing for sale tworetail shopping centers in Plano, TX, for Houston-based WeingartenRealty Investors. The assets are Pitman Corners, a192,267-square-foot community center anchored by Albertsons; andCuster Park, a 114,519-square-foot community center shadow-anchoredby a Kroger Signature Store.