CREW Tampa Bay presents Excellence Awards

Commercial Real Estate Women Tampa Bay recently held its 6th annual Excellence Awards event, recognizing group members and others whose deals topped the market in the past year.

Nancy Herz, managing director of Commercial Florida Realty, won CREW's Member of the Year award.

The group's sales transaction award went to law firm Phelps Dunbar LLP and Third Lake Capital for the investment firm's $65.75 million deal for the 28-story office tower at 200 Central Ave., in downtown St. Petersburg.

Commercial brokerage firm JLL's Brent Miller, Bryan Rodriguez, John Heald and Ron Ruffner — then of Cushman & Wakefield — won the Office Lease award, for their work on Amgen's 125,000-square-foot deal in Corporate Center, in Westshore.

Cushman & Wakefield's Julia Rettig, Jessica Mizrahi and Mike Davis, with Beaux-Arts Group's Karen Giunta, took home top honors in the Industrial Lease category, for their efforts on a 51,386-square-foot deal for SLV Lighting in the Madison Distribution Center.

CREW's Retail Lease award was given to commercial brokerage Franklin Street's Brian Bern, Ryan Derriman and Lori Lockard for their work at The Morrison, a mixed-use project at 936 S. Howard Ave. in South Tampa.