Masters
of the Game
Nashville Post
November 2002
Investor
or developer, landlord or tenant, if you have a commercial
real estate need, any need at all, you had better know
the industry leaders we identify below.
Using a decidedly holistic approach, we set out to identify
the 100 most influential and active movers-and-shakers
in the industry. The result: a "Who's Who"
of real estate developers, investors, brokers, and others
who are making real estate deals happen today in Middle
Tennessee.
Our all-star lineup extends from the people on deck
before deals reach the bargaining table, to those who
design and build, to those wedded to projects for the
long haul. These are the savvy real estate attorneys
and commercial appraisers who know how to avoid the
land mines in commercial real estate, the top-producing
brokers with the inside skinny on choice projects, the
leasing agents who can find tenants in trying times,
"A-list" property managers and deep pocketed
developers and their visionary architects whose boldness
is reshaping the city's landscape.
In the following pages, you will see a group known for
its self-assuredness, and often enough, its cockiness.
But that's the nature of commercial real estate. It's
not for those with an aversion to risk or those paralyzed
with self-doubt. And thankfully so, since Middle Tennessee
is all the better for their accomplishments. |
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From
a field crowded with players, Nashville Post has selected
an All-Nashville Commercial Real Estate Team for 2002. If
you are looking to become involved in the city's commercial
real estate market, you will need to know these people.
If you are involved in the market currently, you already
do.
David
Baker - Co-founder
Baker, Storey, McDonald Properties
Trammell Crow alumnus and one of the big names in the relatively
small world of retail. Volume producer based on tenant rep
assignments for regional and national clients such as Gap,
Old Navy, CarMax, Circuit City, LifeWay Christian Stores,
Petco, Albertson's. Now also actively pursuing retail acquisition
and development opportunities under firm established earlier
this year along with fellow Trammell Crow alums Carl Storey
III and Allen McDonald. Trio made initial acquisition this
September with $6.7 million purchase of Nippers Corner Shopping
Center.
Carl
D. Storey III - Co-founder
Baker Storey McDonald Properties
Retail specialist said to understand the management side
of the business better than anyone in town. Son of Carl
D. Storey Jr., a pioneer in retail strip center development
who, in his heyday, helmed the dominant brokerage firm in
town. Younger Storey learned the business while working
for his dad. Ran his own shop, C.D. Storey Properties, for
a number of years before merging it into Trammell Crow'
s Nashville office in 1995. Left Trammell Crow before the
local office closed earlier this year to form BSM Properties.
Now pursuing development and acquisition properties along
with firm co-founders David Baker and Allen McDonald. Recently
made first acquisition, the $6.7 million purchase of Nipper's
Corner Shopping Center at Old Hickory Blvd. and Edmonson
Pike.
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