Top Producers in Commercial Real Estate

Top Producers in Commercial Real Estate
COMPILED BY JEFF QUACKENBUSH, BUSINESS JOURNAL STAFF REPORTER
Monday, April 27, 2009

Colliers International

Brooks Pedder, SIOR, corporate director, senior vice president

Mr. Pedder has leased or sold about 50 million square feet of industrial and office buildings as well as more than 430 acres of land for such structures in the East Bay and Solano and Napa counties since he got into real estate with Norris Beggs & Simpson in 1985.

In 1994 he and Philip Garrett, managing partner and vice president in Colliers’ Fairfield office, joined The Galbreath Co.’s North Bay-East Bay office. Mr. Pedder was among the company’s the top three California producers for the three years until both left for Colliers.

He is immediate past chairman of the Solano Economic Development Corp.

2008 value of deals: $54.2 million

1. East Bay-based Pamco completed a property exchange with the purchase a 191,430-square-foot distribution building at 801 Chadbourne Road in Fairfield from Lincoln PO Fairfield.

2. Skyy Vodka purchased nearly 24 acres in Tolenas Industrial Park in Fairfield from Yarbrough Family Trust to relocate a distillery from the South Bay.

3. Bio-Rad Laboratories signed a 10-and-a-half-year lease with Richmond Pinole Point Industrial for a 116,250-square-foot industrial building at 2500 Atlas Road in Richmond’s Pinole Point Business Park.

Philip Garrett, SIOR, managing partner, vice president

Mr. Garrett started in real estate in 1986 with Cushman & Wakefield and moved to Galbreath in 1994 and Colliers in 1997 as managing partner. He has been a top producer for Colliers since then.

2008 value of deals: $61.9 million

1. Pamco bought 801 Chadbourne Road in Fairfield.

2. Skyy Vodka purchased almost 24 acres in Tolenas Industrial Park in Fairfield.

3. Hercules Redevelopment Agency purchased nearly 97,000 square feet of office condominiums at 230-295 Linus Pauling Drive in Hercules’s North Shore Business Park from LB/VCC Hercules, affiliated with the San Rafael-based developer of Venture Commerce Centers. The agency leased the property to nearby Bio-Rad Laboratories.

Steve Crocker, vice president

Mr. Crocker joined Colliers recently after nearly two decades in sales and marketing in the East Bay and Solano County. He worked in sales for Proctor & Gamble and then operated his own company that manufactured goods in China for sale in the U.S. He sold the company in 2000 and stayed on to consult with sales, marketing and product development.

2008 value of deals: $29.65 million

1. Hercules Redevelopment Agency purchased office condos at 230-295 Linus Pauling Drive to lease to Bio-Rad.

2. Bio-Rad leased 2500 Atlas Road in Richmond.

3. Richard and Alecia Hancock sold a 13,000-square-foot industrial building at 20 Case Court in Napa to Sharif Steyteyieh and Fandi Shatnawi.