SRS Expands Into Inland Empire With New Team, Colliers Promotes Six Chicago Brokers, Cushman & Wakefield Hires Senior Housing Broker in Florida

SRS Real Estate Partners has expanded into Southern California’s Inland Empire with the addition of a retail brokerage team and a new office. SRS has hired the retail team led by real estate veteran Nick Wirick, who will serve as a senior vice president and managing principal. The team also includes Vice President Chris Beauchamp, senior associate Miranda Montgomery and marketing and transaction manager Jessica Henderson. With the new brokers, SRS has opened its first Inland Empire office in Riverside. where the Wirick team will be based. Wirick, Beauchamp and Montgomery made the move to SRS from Lee & Associates. Henderson previously ran events for a Live Nation venue and spent 12 years in the hospitality industry. The team, with more than $900 million in completed deals in recent years, will focus on tenant and owner services primarily in the Inland Empire, SRS said. Wirick, an SRS senior vice president and managing principal, will be part of the firm’s Southern California leadership team with Executive Vice President and managing principal Garrett Colburn and Senior Vice President and managing principal Terrison Quinn, who are based in Newport Beach, the brokerage said.

Quinn said SRS has worked closely with Wirick for several years. The addition of the Wirick team is an important part of Dallas-based SRS’ expansion in the region, SRS Chairman and CEO Chris Maguire said. “Adding Nick Wirick and his team will significantly enhance our capabilities throughout Southern California,” Maguire said in a statement. Before joining SRS, Wirick held a leadership role in the Riverside office of Lee, where he joined as an associate in 1996.

Colliers has promoted six brokers in its Chicago office, including the elevation of a trio to vice chair, typically the highest rank a producer can attain. Mike Senner, Suzanne Serino and David Burden were promoted to vice chair. During his career spanning more than 30 years, Senner built a practice servicing large corporate, private equity and middle-market clients across the globe and is a long-time member of Colliers’ Everest Club that recognizes the firm’s top 10% of producers globally. Serino, who has more than 25 years of experience, in the past two years represented Allstate and Sears in their corporate headquarters’ dispositions. She frequently ranks among the firm’s top 10% of producers and is a member of Everest Club. Over the past decade, Burden has grown a multidisciplinary team that works with various asset classes throughout the United States. Also a member of the Everest Club, he recently was recently named head of Colliers’ life science practice group.

The others promoted are Anne Dempsey, who was elevated to executive vice president, Tyler Ziebel, who was promoted to senior vice president, and Lauren Stoliar moved up to associate vice president on the multifamily advisory group. Dempsey, also a member of the Everest Club, handles sales of land for all product types including industrial, data centers, residential and retail. In 2023, she was Colliers’ No. 1 land broker in the United States. Ziebel specializes in investment sales of institutional industrial properties ranging in value from $10 million to $500 million. Stoliar is a middle-market transaction specialist who originates and underwrites commercial investment sales and capital market transactions for institutional, corporate and private owners of multifamily properties across the Midwest.

Cushman & Wakefield has hired Jason Skalko, who previously worked in investment sales at JLL and HFF, as a managing director in Tampa, Florida. At Cushman & Wakefield, Skalko will specialize in senior living and care investment sales throughout the United States, the brokerage said. He has about 14 years of experience in investment advisory, debt and equity placement, valuation and due diligence. At JLL, he served as a director and focused on senior housing investment sales, debt and joint venture equity, closing deals with an aggregate value of more than $6 billion in 24 states. The addition of Skalko will expand Cushman & Wakefield’s presence in the senior living and care sector, Wanda Riley, managing principal for Florida, said. As for Skalko, he said in a statement he expects to “play a key role in growing this business area across the country.”

Broker Wick Kirby, who spent the past 15 years with JLL and predecessor HFF in Chicago, has relocated to Denver and joined JLL’s institutional multihousing team. In Denver, Kirby will be responsible for multifamily investment transactions across the metro area, JLL said. He is set to work closely with JLL senior managing director Jordan Robbins and director Alex Possick, the firm said, and report to the Denver capital markets office heads Peter Merrion and Leon McBroom.

Over the past decade and a half at JLL and HFF, Kirby executed more than $5 billion of multifamily transactions “and helped lead the Chicago JLL team to top market share in both Chicago and Milwaukee,” JLL said.

Before joining HFF, Kirby served as a senior portfolio analyst in Merrill Lynch Capital’s real estate finance group. In that capacity, he managed a $900 million loan portfolio.

Capital markets shop Northmarq has hired Justin Glasgow, who has more than 20 years of experience in brokerage, investment banking, private equity and finance, as a managing director and national director of Northmarq’s student housing group. In his new role, Glasgow will establish and lead the new U.S. student housing capital markets specialty group that will focus on investment sales, finance and equity capital placements for institutional student housing investors, Northmarq said. Based in Washington, D.C., he reports to Trevor Koskovich, Northmarq’s Phoenix-based president of investment sales. Glasgow joined Northmarq after recently stepping down as a partner in the Washington-based debt and structured finance group at CBRE. He started covering the student housing sector in 2005, and over the past two decades has been involved in over $35 billion in transaction volume across various property types including student housing. “Student housing is one of the strongest asset classes in commercial real estate and its robust fundamentals continue to attract investor interest,” Koskovich said in a statement.

Hughes Marino has added Brian Dolan as a vice president in its Boston office. Dolan, who previously served as a real estate adviser at Lincoln Property Co., has worked with commercial clients in a variety of industries including technology, professional services and tough tech, or companies that work on ways to combat large challenges such as climate change. A Massachusetts native, he also worked for Steele Group, a firm that specializes in tenant representation, and has experience in several property sectors and asset classes in the Boston area. Dolan played baseball at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he graduated with a business degree, and football for University of New Hampshire, where he earned his MBA.

Kidder Mathews has hired Jack Levis and Matt Levis, brothers who specialize in retail investment sales across the greater Los Angeles area, as senior vice presidents in the Century City district. Before they joined Kidder Mathews, the Levis brothers co-founded Wydown Partners, a brokerage that specialized in repositioning retail and multifamily properties into stable assets. They also managed the properties on behalf of their clients and represented private and institutional clients including Northern Trust, JPMorgan Chase, Positive Investments and Revere Investments. The brothers began their commercial brokerage careers at CBRE, where they were part of a South Bay investment sales team represented clients in more than $300 million of transactions. Matt Levis worked at CBRE for nearly nine years and Jack Levis for over a decade.