Tampa area brokerages shake up

A trio of top Tampa commercial real estate brokerages have kicked off 2017 with some high-level personnel moves.

Cushman & Wakefield shot off the opening salvo on Jan. 19, when it announced that Scott Garlick, a broker with the firm since 2007, would replace long-time market leader Larry Richey in Tampa as managing principal.

Richey, who had been in charge of the company's Tampa operation for the past 25 years, had been pulling double duty since September 2015, when he took over all nine Sunshine State offices as Florida Market Leader.

Four days later, CBRE Group unveiled that William “Tripp” Gulliford had been promoted to senior managing director of the brokerage's North Florida operations, which includes Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville.

Gulliford, who joined CBRE in 2013 from EverBank Commercial Advisors, had been overseeing the firm's Jacksonville and Northwest Florida markets. He and Arden Karson, who now oversees CBRE's South Florida division, will report to John Ferguson, president of the Southeast, who recently added Florida to his responsibilities.

That same day, Colliers International Tampa Bay indicated it had hired a trio of long-time industry veterans from CBRE to form a capital markets team that will be based in Tampa.

“While we've had a very vibrant sales and leasing operation with more than 140 agents, we've not had a capital markets team to complement them,” says Ryan Kratz, the firm's president. “So this creates a better platform for our clients. It's a natural fit.

Don Jennewein, Michael Strober and Nathan Lynch combined have more than 75 years of experience and have participated in debt and equity deals valued at more than $16 billion.

Jennewein and Strober, who will be Senior Managing Directors at Colliers International, say being able to work throughout the state of Florida was one of the key reasons behind their move.

“This gives us the ability and the opportunity to have a massive platform without being geographically limited,” Strober says.