Retail investment sales and leasing specialist joins as
Principal
LAS VEGAS,
Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -
Joseph Kupiec, Avison Young
Principal and Managing Director of the company's Las Vegas office, announced today that
commercial real estate broker Matthew
Bear has joined Avison Young's brokerage operations in
Las Vegas.
Effective immediately, Bear joins Avison Young
as a Principal. He will focus on capital markets, retail, and
advisory services transactions in Las
Vegas and throughout the expanding Avison Young
platform.
"We are very pleased to have Matt Bear join our growing operation in
Las Vegas. Matt is one of the most
respected professionals and industry leaders in the market,"
comments Kupiec. "His comprehensive commercial real estate
experience, in-depth industry knowledge and longstanding client
relationships are perfectly aligned with our commitment to provide
best-in-class services to our valued clients. The addition of Matt
further demonstrates Avison Young's commitment to the Las Vegas market, and is another important
step in the execution of our company's aggressive growth plan."
Bear brings to Avison Young 23 years of
commercial real estate experience related to properties in
Nevada, California, Arizona, Texas, New
Mexico and Idaho. His
diverse experience includes vision and strategic/operational
planning; joint-venture fund investing and relations; site
selection and acquisition; ground-up development; portfolio
management and leasing; acquisitions and dispositions; and
re-engineering operations and process improvement.
From 2002 to 2010, Bear served as chief
investment officer and chief operations officer with Venture
Development Group, a Las
Vegas-based company that he co-founded. Leading a team of 18
development, finance, property management and legal management
professionals, he executed investment and development strategies
while overseeing all aspects of the company's acquisitions,
dispositions and leasing.
"The move to Avison Young is a great opportunity
to be a part of an emerging and innovative company, while at the
same time participating in the Las
Vegas recovery," says Bear. "I am excited to be continuing
my career with the fastest-growing real estate firm in North America, and working with my new
colleagues in the U.S. and Canada.
Avison Young's Principal-led, client-service model is extremely
appealing and will enhance my ability to service my new and
existing clients."
Bear holds a communications degree from the
University of Nevada-Las Vegas and has
completed a number of real estate-related courses as part of his
professional training. He is a Senior Certified Leasing Specialist
(SCLS) and a member of the International Council of Shopping
Centers, which he joined in 1992. In 2003, Bear was named a winner
of the Las Vegas Sun's In
Business Las Vegas 40 Under 40 award.
Avison Young opened its first Nevada office in November 2011 in Las
Vegas, with industry veteran Joseph
Kupiec joining as a Principal to help launch the company's
brokerage business in Nevada. The
company opened in Reno in
March 2012 with John Pinjuv joining as Managing Director. In
August 2012, the company acquired
Las Vegas-based commercial
property management firm Landry & Associates, Inc.,
adding 2.6 million square feet (msf) to Avison Young's
approximately 50 msf of retail, industrial and office properties
already under management in Canada
and the U.S.
Today's announcement comes on the heels of
Avison Young opening a newly-formed office in Irvine, California yesterday.
Over the past three and a half years, Avison
Young has grown from 11 to 42 offices and from 300 to more than
1,100 real estate professionals across Canada and the U.S.
Founded in 1978, Avison Young is
Canada's largest
independently-owned commercial real estate services company.
Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario,
Avison Young is also the largest Canadian-owned, principal-managed
commercial real estate brokerage firm in North America. Comprising more than 1,100 real
estate professionals in 42 offices across Canada and the U.S., the full-service
commercial real estate company provides value-added, client-centric
investment sales, leasing, advisory, management, financing and
mortgage placement services to owners and occupiers of office,
retail, industrial and multi-residential properties.
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For further information/comment/photos:
- Sherry Quan, National
Director of Communications & Media Relations, Avison Young:
(604) 647-5098; cell: (604) 726-0959
- Joseph
Kupiec, Principal and Managing Director,
Las Vegas, Avison Young: (702)
472-7978
- Matt
Bear, Principal, Avison Young: (702)
637-7308
- Earl Webb, President,
U.S. Operations, Avison Young: (847) 881-2237
- Mark Rose, Chair and CEO,
Avison Young: (416) 673-4028
Avison Young is a winner of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies program
for 2011, sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC, National Post and Queen's
School of Business.
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