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September 29, 2021 (Atlanta, Georgia) – Lee & Associates Atlanta welcomes Joseph Mullican as a Principal with over 20 years of commercial real estate experience. Joseph represents owners/users and tenants/buyers in both leasing and sales transactions with a concentrated focus on Metropolitan Atlanta and Savannah. His knowledge of the greater Atlanta region and individual submarkets provides clients with a comprehensive analysis of the overall marketplace. His ability to find secure off-market investment opportunities has led him…

September 28, 2020 (Atlanta, GA) – Lee & Associates – Atlanta is pleased to represent a fund managed by a subsidiary of Ares Management Corporation, which acquired Black Creek Group’s U.S. real estate investment advisory and distribution business on July 1, 2021, on the purchase of a 30.2-acre tract off Wilkerson Mill Road and Highway 29 in the I-85 South submarket of metro Atlanta, Georgia. Ares intends to construct Wilkerson Mill Logistics Center, a Class…

Lee & Associates Atlanta welcomes Cori Nuttall as a Director, specializing in office and industrial leasing, as well as investment sales. Ms. Nuttall joins the Atlanta office from Lee & Associates Charleston, where she launched her career in 2018. Ms. Nuttall has since brokered over $45MM in transactions across five separate states in the Southeast. Her client portfolio spans a variety of industries including professional office, medical practices, financial institutions and manufacturing. She has represented…

INDIANAPOLIS, August 24, 2021 — Becknell Industrial is pleased to announce it has purchased a 58.24-acre tract off Bowen Road and Highway 29 in the I-85 South submarket of metro Atlanta, Georgia. Becknell Industrial intends to construct a Class A industrial distribution facility totaling approximately 686,038 square feet.  Palmetto Distribution Center will be a cross-docked facility scheduled to be complete in June 2022.  Catering to the corporate user, the building will be developed with state-of-the-art…

Surging demand, especially for e-commerce projects, and record-low vacancy are creating Atlanta’s strongest industrial real estate market in years, and “there’s no slowdown in sight,” Lee & Associates Atlanta’s President and CEO David Howard told Atlanta Business Chronicle. “I call Atlanta the L.A. of the South,” Howard said. “There’s a lot of room for Atlanta’s industrial market to grow.”  

Lee & Associates Atlanta is excited to welcome James Simmel to the firm. Mr. Simmel will be joining the Research Associate (RA) Program, providing market research support and analysis to our team of brokers with a focus on industrial properties.

Lee & Associates Atlanta is pleased to announce the promotion of Chance Taylor to Director! Since joining in 2018, Mr. Taylor has been an integral part of the office and industrial leasing and sales team. Congratulations, Chance!  

Atlanta, Georgia (July 6, 2021) – Lee & Associates Atlanta’s Allen Eager is proud to have represented the buyer, Equity Residential, in the off-market acquisition of SkyHouse South at 100 6th St., Atlanta, GA 30308. Equity Residential purchased the asset from a partnership between Novare Group and Batson-Cook Development Company (BCDC). Allen Eager, Director at Lee & Associates Atlanta, says that “it was an honor to represent EQR in their first acquisition re-entering the Atlanta…

Atlanta, Georgia (June 2021) – Lee & Associates Atlanta is pleased to announce that West Oak Business Center is 100% leased. The team of Billy Snowden, SIOR and Tommy Hiles, SIOR was hired in June 2020 by Clarion Partners to oversee leasing for the 505,268 SF, eight-building infill industrial portfolio. Since that time, they have completed 5 leases totaling 166,349 SF and rebranded the park’s marketing materials.