Alliant National's Brenda Cannon Promoted to Regional Counsel Florida and Senior Vice President

Brenda J. Cannon

Longmont, CO, April 8, 2021 - Alliant National Title Insurance Company, a unique title insurance underwriter that partners with independent agents to improve their competitive position, announces the promotion of Brenda J. Cannon to the position of Regional Counsel Florida and Senior Vice President.

Cannon is a highly-skilled attorney with more than 26 years of experience in title insurance and 35 years in real estate. During her career, she has served as both Claims Counsel and Underwriting Counsel, analyzing risk, determining how to fix title defects, resolving claims, and managing outside counsel.

 Margaret Cook

Cannon received her Juris Doctorate with Honors from the University of Florida College of Law where she was a member of the Law Review. She is an active member of the Florida Bar, the American Land Title Association, the Florida Land Title Association, and the American Bar Association. She is also Board-Certified in real estate law by the Florida Bar.

Cannon’s experience will serve her well in her new role with Alliant National, where she will continue leading and expanding Alliant National’s Florida underwriting department and working with the rest of the Florida team to support the ongoing, explosive growth of the organization in the region.

“I’m excited to continue my work leading our wonderful underwriters in the Florida-area,” said Cannon. “Alliant National is currently experiencing a period of exciting and  rapid growth, and it is an honor to help our underwriting team continue to offer the best service in the industry.”

“We feel incredibly lucky to have Brenda as part of our leadership team,” said Margaret Cook, EVP, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Alliant National. “Her deep understanding of the law, robust industry experience and natural leadership ability make her the ideal choice to lead and grow our underwriting operations in Florida.”

CONTACT:

Cathie Beck
303.241.0805
cathie@capitalcitypr.com

alliantnational.com 

JLL Valuation Advisory adds new service line and key hire

 

 Jeff Manas

CHICAGO, IL, April 8, 2021 – JLL Valuation Advisory announced today that it has hired Jeff Manas to head its new Environmental and Property Condition service in order to provide an end-to-end solution for clients and create a unified, best-in-class resource for third-party due diligence reports in the U.S.

As part of JLL Valuation Advisory’s sector-led approach to all real estate asset classes and property sectors, Manas, who is a Managing Director and based in Washington, D.C., will partner with JLL’s global Valuation Advisory business and report to Tony Lenamon, head of JLL’s national Valuation Advisory Multi-Housing practice in the U.S.

Tony Lenamon

“JLL’s Valuation Advisory group’s investment in this strategy fills an important service gap and enables the firm to better serve clients,” Manas said.

“JLL expanding into more of the conventional due diligence aspects of the industry will support growth across the valuation, property management and project management client base.”

U.S. property valuation and tax consulting services are performed by JLL Valuation & Advisory Services, LLC, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.

 CONTACT:

Kimberly Steele

Senior Associate

Public Relations

T +1 713 852 3420

M +1 832 244 9994

Kimberly.Steele@am.jll.com

 

$10 Million Crowdfunding Campaign Launched to Develop $100 Million Mohawk at Wynwood Project in Miami, FL

 

 Jilliene Helman

MIAMI, FL -- A $10 million crowdfunding campaign has been launched to develop Mohawk at Wynwood in Miami, FL.

 

As Miami real estate gets hotter and hotter - with the likes of Peter Thiel recently relocating his VC firm to the sunshine state - Mohawk will be a $100 million development.

 Diego Ojeda 

 

The project is planned to transform 1.5 acres in Wynwood, Miami into a 225-unit, 12-story, luxury multi-family building containing 220,750 sf of leasable square feet with 22,000 sf of prime ground floor retail. 

 Jilliene Helman is the CEO of RealtyMogul. Diego Ojeda of the Rilea Group is the creative force behind this project. Wynwood has partnered with RealtyMogul to crowdfund the financing of this development.

 $10 million of the project's $100 million price-tag is being raised via RealtyMogul, one of the top real estate crowdfunding platforms with a community of over 200,000 investors across a $2.8 billion portfolio that includes over 15,000 multifamily units.

Rendering for a planned 225-unit, 12-story, luxury multi-family building containing 220,750 sf of leasable square feet 

with 22,000 sf of prime ground floor retail 

in Wynwood, Miami, FL

The developer is Rilea Group, with a 40-year track record of successful developments in South Florida.

 The project will provide not just residences, but a turn-key lifestyle, built-in social scene, art, yoga, activities, food and culture to those who live there.

 

Located at the crossroads of Miami’s trendy and bourgeoning Wynwood and Midtown neighborhoods, Mohawk will be bringing much-needed units to an area where housing demand far exceeds supply.

 

Peter Thiel 

At the same time, the project will bring a stylish, modern community to an area that already leads the nation in artisanry. 

The mechanism being used to finance this development is equally innovative: crowdfunding.

 

As this pandemic continues to drive residents to flee California and New York for Florida, a wave of new Miami residents is driving this real estate boom.

CONTACT:

 

Lauren Estes

lauren@laurenestescommunications.com

Florida Real Estate Executives Ron Schwartz and Artie Schneider Launch New Company to meet the demands of developers, owners and operators

 

Artie Schneider

 

  

ORLANDO, FL --- Two Florida real estate executives and their financial and IT associates have formed a new company to meet the demands of developers, owners and operators, especially new entrepreneurs, by providing a myriad of services they have perfected throughout their solid careers.

Ron Schwartz and Artie Schneider, veterans in the real estate industry, recently formed FLORIDA-REO, LLC (FREO) a real estate consulting firm based in Orlando at 7217 East Colonial Drive, Suite 215 , with a satellite office in Cape Cod , MA. 

 

Ron Schwartz

 

“FREO provides the tools and strategies necessary for successful property development from land acquisition, entitlement and construction through sales or lease up, to financing and closings, and back-office operations,” Schwartz said/

 

He added, “We can also assist owners and developers interface with planners, engineers, attorneys, lenders and other professionals needed to accomplish a project.”

Providing the “answers” for over 25 years to owners and developers along the eastern Seaboard, both Schwartz and Schneider have helped facilitate market defining real estate projects, such as Avalon Lakes, Eastwood, KeysGate, Kingwood, Island Pointe, Mandarin, 1310 Apartments and Park Lake. 

 

Now they aim to share their expert understanding of market conditions, demographic trends and commercial real estate negotiations.

 

“FREO can also provide management of assets, as well as specialized brokerage services to the homebuilding trade in the acquisition of land, lots and sites, and for apartment developers, and other specific services including being the liaison for owners in their relationship with contractors,” said Schneider.

 

These strategic planners and creative problem solvers are on a mission to fill some voids many of today’s developers face.  They maintain they’ll get the job done at a fraction of the cost of hiring expensive employees for an extended time.

CONTACTS:

Ron Schwartz,

Principal,

Florida REO, LLC.

407-342-3648

 

 Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications Inc.

 407-644-4142 Lvershelco@aol.com.  

 

www.florida-reo.com 

Hold-Thyssen’s Class A Office Leasing Still Steady in 2021

 

Darby Hold

WINTER PARK, FL --- Hold-Thyssen, Inc., a full service commercial property firm based in Winter Park , negotiated three professional office lease agreements in the first 90 days of the year with businesses getting back to normal in Class A buildings at locations in Orange County .

 

Darby Hold, Senior Director at Hold-Thyssen, Inc. represented the landlords in each of the following lease transactions.

 

Arrowsmith Realty, 1,360 square feet at the 175 E. Main Street Building in Apopka where NMR, LLC is the landlord. 

 

The tenant provides residential real estate expertise.    American Concept & Design, 515 square feet at Phillips Place, 7575 Dr. Phillips Blvd. in Southwest Orlando where Financial Way Realty, Inc. is the landlord. 

Phillips Place, 7575 Drive Phillips Boulevard,
 Southwest Orlando, FL 

The tenant is an interior design firm focusing on design of healthcare institutions, professional offices and residential;   The law firm of Marshall S. Adler, P.A., 469 square feet at 1031 W. Morse Blvd. in Winter Park , where Morse Boulevard Development Associates, LLC. is the landlord.  The tenant specializes in Workers’ Compensation law. 

 Hold-Thyssen, Inc. provides commercial property brokerage and leasing and management services to institutional and private investor clients nationwide.  The 40-year old firm’s current portfolio includes more that 100 commercial properties throughout the United States .

 

CONTACTS:

           

Anthony Fisher, Vice President, Hold-Thyssen Inc.,

 407-691-0505, afisher@HoldThyssen.com

 

Robert P. Hold, Principal, Hold-Thyssen, Inc.,

407-691-0505, bhold@HoldThyssen.com

                                                                                                                       

Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications Inc.

 407-644-4142 Lvershelco@aol.com.