Tony Wilbert

1 month ago | costar.com | Tony Wilbert

The partnership that developed AER Apartments in downtown Tampa, Florida, had to update several elements of the city's existing infrastructure to make way for the new apartment tower. In fact, the team of residential development firm American Land Ventures and Gazit Horizons, a real estate company, said it worked extensively with the city of Tampa, the Friends of the John F.

1 month ago | costar.com | Tony Wilbert

Cresa Atlanta is seeking a new market leader following the departure of Chris Scott to a rival as the city's office market shows signs of a rebound. Cresa principal Tom Tindall said Scott, who had served as market leader since the fall of 2023, departed for a job at Newmark. In the Atlanta market, Cresa is known for representing tenants in office and industrial transactions, and it does not represent landlords or typically handle commercial property sales.

2 months ago | costar.com | Tony Wilbert

Starbucks has tapped an executive who's worked at some of the country's largest retailers as its new chief financial officer to help the coffee chain turn around its business and increase its store count. The Seattle-based company said Tuesday that Cathy Smith has been hired as its new top finance executive. Smith, who served in the same position at luxury department store chain Nordstrom for the past two years, will replace Rachel Ruggeri, who had worked at Starbucks for nearly 20 years.

2 months ago | costar.com | Tony Wilbert

Four years after retiring as co-founding partner of commercial property services firm Trinity Partners, Gary Chesson says he's turning to a different kind of work — raising money for cancer research instead of for real estate projects. "I’ve recently decided that I’m going to un-retire! But it’s not what you think," Gary Chesson said in a LinkedIn post.

2 months ago | costar.com | Tony Wilbert

Executives from Chick-fil-A's logistics subsidiary held a town hall and offered tours of its new distribution center near Columbia, South Carolina, which will serve the chicken chain's growing restaurant base in the Palmetto State. Dan Marques, senior director of distribution operations for Chick-fil-A Supply, and other company executives gave tours of the 350,000-square-foot distribution center in the Saxe Gotha Industrial Park in West Columbia in Lexington County.