BP Poland (Poland)–Advised BP Poland on the successful disposition of 60 excess properties valued at US$22M. Defined development strategy clusters, identifiying appropriate international investment partners.The bulk of the portfolio value transacted by fiscal year-end; BP-Poland met fiscal targets.
Praedium (Portugal)–Portugal’s largest shopping center developer wanted to explore large multi-family residential as a new sector. Provided market-oriented development strategies on twenty sites, and conceptual development on six projects, now completed, valued at US$200M.
Insurance Slovakia (Slovakia)–Advised the Slovakian state insurance conglomerate on privatization of 12 hotels and 2 ski resorts valued at US$260M. Defined development strategy and identified appropriate investment partners.
Global Edge (Russia)–Profitably completed US$35M design-build bank headquarters and conference center for a high-growth private Russian bank in Tver, Russia. Assumed project executive and P/L responsibility for 275,000-square-foot design-build project, completed profitably under US$120/square foot.
Sonae Immobiliaria (Portugal)–Provided steel frame construction management expertise on two 32-story residential towers in Lisbon for Portugal’s largest real estate investor and developer.
Groenwoudt (The Netherlands)–Provided project management strategy and partnership assessment for a US$ 100 million golf-resort investment resort property. Restructured product-mix improved sales and long-term profitability for this Dutch retailer. Implemented project management systems for schedule and cost control.
Group DEFI (Belgium)–Successfully redefined and provided development strategy for a US$75M mixed-use 55,000-square meter retail-office project development in Prague, Czech Republic, for a Belgian telecom company operating internationally.
Bank Santander (Chile)–Provided assessment and market strategy to redevelop an underperforming asset of this Spanish bank subsidiary.
Otto (Germany) Developed an international expansion strategy for Germany’s largest shopping center owner/developer, resulting in shopping center and mixed-use projects in Poland, Hungary, and The Czech Republic.
Otto Group (Germany) Successfully pursued property restitution issues for strategic locales in Germany’s five new states, forming joint ventures with ECE, Deutsche Bank, and the historical property owners. Specifically negotiated the land holding restitution joint venture between Equitable Life Insurance (US) and a private German fund that created the full-block retail-office complex in the Friedrichstrasse retail district of Berlin (former East Berlin).
American Express / Balcor Consolidated 65 professionals in three cost centers to form a national real estate investment due-diligence revenue center for US$1B annual investment program. Improved the due diligence process and consolidated market, construction, and financial feasibility into one investment research group. Improved investment processes and professionalism, and then externally marketed these services, a transition from cost to profit center.
McCormick Place Convention Center (Chicago) Completed feasibility, land acquisition, legislative approval, public funding, and construction for a US$160M fast-track, over live rail, publicly-bid 1.5M square-foot convention center on a 31-acre site.
