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| Brian Hennessey |
Los Angeles, CA – Christopher Cooper, Avison Young
Principal and Managing Director of the company’s Southern California region,
announced the strategic hiring of Chris
Baer, Brian Hennessey and Armand Aghadjanians in the firm’s Los Angeles
North office.
Effective immediately,
Baer, a 31-year commercial real estate industry veteran, becomes a Principal of
Avison Young with a mandate to expand the company’s Tri-Cities and San Fernando
Valley agency leasing and office investment real estate sales practice.
Baer rejoins Avison Young
following a four-year tenure with Colliers International in Los Angeles, where
he was an executive vice-president. He initially joined Avison Young as an
executive vice-president following the company’s acquisition of Ramsey-Shilling
Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc., a full-service commercial real estate
brokerage firm, in December 2011.
Hennessey, a 33-year
veteran of the commercial real estate industry, joins Avison Young as a senior
vice-president. He was most recently a senior vice-president at Colliers
International in Los Angeles, specializing in office sales and leasing with a
focus on the West San Fernando Valley and Tri-Cities markets.
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| Chris Baer |
Also joining Avison Young from Colliers
International in Los Angeles is Aghadjanians, as an Associate.
“Chris and Brian are
highly respected real estate industry leaders who have gained considerable
recognition in Southern California for their proven expertise in agency leasing
and office leasing and investment sales,” comments Cooper.
“We couldn’t be more pleased to have Chris,
Brian and Armand come on board to further expand our Los Angeles service
delivery platform. The addition of all three members will further our ability
to provide high-level, value-added owner and investor services to our clients.”
According to Mark Evanoff, Avison Young Principal
and Managing Director of the Los Angeles North office: “We are thrilled to
welcome Chris back to Avison Young and to bring Brian and Armand on board.
“The addition of all three
members to the Avison Young team shows our firm’s continued commitment to
client service through superior expertise. Their deep market knowledge of the
Tri-cities and San Fernando Valley areas will be a tremendous complement to
Avison Young’s service offerings in our rapidly growing region.”
Baer is looking forward to
being reunited with Evanoff and several other colleagues with whom he worked
previously.
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| Armand Aghadjanians |
“I am very excited to be
returning to the Avison Young family,” says Baer.
“The firm's Principal-led,
client-centric culture places a high emphasis on honesty and integrity while
fostering a collaborative partnership that is unique in the real estate
industry.
"Furthermore, Avison Young’s encouragement for an entrepreneurial
approach to client service and solutions sets the company apart.
"We are looking
forward to expanding our market share in the Tri-Cities/San Fernando Valley,
and working with our new colleagues throughout North America and Europe.”
Prior to joining
Ramsey-Shilling in 2007, Baer, a perennial top producer, spent 21 years as a
senior vice-president at Grubb & Ellis Company. Baer specializes in the
delivery of comprehensive real estate consulting and transactional services for
U.S./foreign corporations, governmental agencies, non-profits and institutional
investment companies.
During his illustrious
career, he has represented numerous entertainment companies, including Sony,
Warner Bros., Disney, Dolby Labs, MCA/Universal and Fotokem in major
acquisitions and dispositions of office, production and industrial properties.
Baer has also been integral in assembling, entitling and selling nearly 1,500
units of mixed-use projects throughout Southern California.
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| Christopher Cooper |
He holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree in economics, graduating with honors from the University of
California-Los Angeles. An inactive Certified Public Accountant (CPA), he has
begun studying for a Master’s degree in business taxation at the University of
Southern California.
Hennessey has completed
transactions totaling approximately 12 million square feet during his career,
for a combined value in excess of $1 billion.
In the process, he has managed
every aspect of the real estate transaction, from developing acquisition and
disposition strategies to conducting market and feasibility analyses to
negotiating and executing leases and multi-state portfolio transactions.
He is the author of the
highly regarded real estate book on Amazon.com The Due Diligence Handbook For
Commercial Real Estate and the audiobook of the same title.
Aghadjanians is in his
second year in the commercial real estate industry and specializes in office
sales and leasing in the San Fernando Valley/Tri-Cities.
Adds Cooper: “We believe
that the San Fernando Valley and Tri-Cities communities of Pasadena, Burbank
and Glendale are under-serviced. While offering strategic investment sales
advisory services, Chris, Brian and Armand will provide the agency leasing horsepower
that our Tri-Cities clients need.”
For a complete copy of the company’s news release,
please contact:
Darcie Giacchetto
949.278.6224
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