MINNEAPOLIS—JLL has been in the Twin Cities foryears, but it was only recently that the company began putting aspecial emphasis on boosting its property management business. Andin just 24 months, it expanded its portfolio under management from400,000-square-feet to 2.9-million-square-feet. The expansion meansthat the property management division can now play a key role indeveloping business contacts, much like the more-established JLLsections in Minnesota like tenant representation, capital marketsand others, and puts the company in position for even moregrowth.

“We share a lot of information back and forth,” Todd R.Balsiger, senior vice president, property management atJLL, tells GlobeSt.com. “Those groups opened the door for us, andproperty management is the final leg of the stool.”

“We've spent considerable time and effort travelling andnetworking to let our national clients know that we now had aproperty management group in Minneapolis,” he adds. “That resultedin some significant momentum coming into 2014.”

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Brian J. Rogal

Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.