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The Inside Scoop on the People & Places that Shape Atlanta Real Estate | |
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Good People Doing Good Things
 Seefried's Falcons helmet, signed by Tommy Nobis. If you don't have a soft spot for the Tommy Nobis Center, there's truly something wrong with you, so we were happy to hear that one of its subsidiaries, Recycletronics, has leased a 150,000-square-foot building in North Cobb as it expands operations.
Doug Smith and Will Lombard of Seefried Properties represented Boston-based owner Great Point Investors in leasing the 7000 Cobb International Parkway building to Recycletronics. The Tommy Nobis Center, which provides training, jobs and support for disabled youth and adults, retains its headquarters at 1480 Bells Ferry Road in Marietta. For its part, Recycletronics recycles computers, mobile phones and other devices for its government and business customers. Longtime Falcons' fans know that Tommy Nobis was the birds' first ever draft pick in 1965, a beast of a linebacker out of the University of Texas who's as devoted to helping the disabled and Special Olympics off the field as he was to crushing quarterbacks and running backs on it. Luckily for us, Nobis decided to stick around Atlanta after retiring from pro football and helped establish the Tommy Nobis Center in the late 1970s.
"They're just a world-class group," said Smith, who has a signed Nobis mini-helmet in his office and Falcons season tickets. "It was great to lease the building to people who are doing a lot of good in this world." 
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A Brand New Day for Wheeler/Kolb
 Brand Morgan in front of One Sugarloaf Centre. Marriages of convenience can be underrated,
especially when it's an obvious match. Such is the case with developer
Brand Properties and services firm Wheeler/Kolb, where Brand CEO Brand
Morgan has acquired Tom Kolb's interest in the leasing and management
firm to form Wheeler/Brand Management Co.
The move was a natural fit for Brand
Properties and its Gwinnett-based neighbors at Wheeler/Kolb. Brand was
looking to expand its leasing and management platform, while Kolb, who
joined Tom Wheeler and Scott Hudgens' firm in 1985, was looking to
retire. With the move, Morgan also brought in Steve Lam, formerly
of Home Depot and North American Properties, to lead leasing efforts
and serve as executive vice president. Combined, the two firms have
5 million square feet of office, industrial and retail under leasing
and management.
"This was a long-term play that we've
been working on for a while," said Morgan, CEO of Brand Properties.
The company also owns the Garden Hills
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Six Degrees of Separation from Andy Ghertner
Cushman & Wakefield's Andy Ghertner.
If you're reading this and involved
in Atlanta's office market, there's a good chance Cushman &
Wakefield's Andy Ghertner hired you at some point, or maybe he hired
your boss.
Ghertner, an executive VP at Cushman
& Wakefield and godfather of Atlanta office tenant rep, rode the
wave as metro Atlanta progressed from provincial outpost to international
city, while C&W grew from New York-centric brokerage house to one
of a handful of truly international real estate services firms.
Ghertner, Bill Bugg, Art McWilliams and John Coppedge sold their firm to Cushman & Wakefield in 1977
as C&W began to expand across the U.S. In almost 34 years at C&W,
he's had current CB Richard Ellis Vice Chairman John Shlesinger as
his summer intern and also worked with Clark Gore, Jones Lang LaSalle's Atlanta market leader, in the early days of Gore's career when C&W
leased Georgia Pacific Center. What's more, he and
Selig Enterprises' President Steve Selig were roommates at the University
of Georgia, where Ghertner was the head manager of Vince Dooley's first football team and cleaned up after UGA lineman John Paul Holmes,
father of CBRE Vice Chairman Sam Holmes.
Over the years, Ghertner's clients
have changed the skyline and economy of Atlanta and other Southeastern
cities, whether its King & Spalding at 1180 Peachtree, GE Power
Systems' headquarters relocation to Cobb County from New York, Entergy's headquarters renewal in downtown New Orleans or Alston & Bird's current evaluation of the Midtown office market. At 67, he has
no plans to slow down, either. He still starts work before the sun,
only now he can do it from anywhere via laptop and Blackberry rather
than appearing at the office at 6 a.m. in ye olden days of carbon copies,
white out and 50-column green accounting paper.
"As long as I'm still having fun
and healthy, I don't know what the hell else I'd do," Ghertner
said.
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At the Top of the First Hour...
From left to right: Megan Holder of HOK with Young Leaders Group Chairs Past and Present:
Kristin Olson of TriMont Real Estate Advisors, Ellen Mendelsohn of
Central Atlanta Progress and Scott Barr of New York Life Investments.
Sometimes all that ULI brain power
needs to blow off a little steam with a frosty beverage, and what better place
for it than Atlanta Brewing Co. The Urban Land Institute's Young Leaders Group
hosted its summer networking social Thursday night at the Defoor Hills Road
suds mecca known for its Red Brick beers.
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And at the Top of the Second ...
 From left to right: Alan Joel of Joel & Granot and Mary Carter, Tyler Fleming, Scott Prather and Kevin Smith, all of Bryant Commercial Real Estate.
The Rooster spread its wings across the city last Thursday, covering two happy hours in one night! We enjoyed catching up with the Young Council of REALTORS at Five Paces Inn with about sixty of our CRE friends. Looking forward to the next one!
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