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Dallas real estate broker sets up shop in Houston |
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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
Venture Commercial Real Estate chose Houston as the site for its first office outside of Dallas. The firm handles leasing of more than 11 million square feet of retail properties and represents roughly 35 retail tenants all over the state but primarily in the Dallas area.
Bryan Danna and Mabry Campbell recently left Houston-based Orr Commercial to head up the office for Venture Commercial, a brokerage firm that represents retail industry tenants and landlords. Danna and Campbell joined the firm in August as partners, and will focus on landlord and tenant representation. For the past few years they worked as landlord reps for Orr Commercial's portfolio of 60 properties.
In addition, Jon Wales moved over from Houston-based Weingarten Realty to the local Venture Commercial operation as leasing director. The new team has already taken over representation of a dozen properties that were being handled by Venture Commercial out of the Dallas office. Danna says he chose to join Venture Commercial instead of starting his own company because many retail tenants and landlords are familiar the company's work. "Having the name recognition means a lot to us," Danna says. "They have proven success with their models." Danna likes Venture Commercial's strategy of assigning two brokers to each retail property to provide more customer service and its emphasis on extensive research. Mike Geisler, a co-founder of Venture Commercial, sees an opportunity to create a large retail brokerage presence in Houston.
Edwina Baniqued
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