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Ben is a Vice President in CBRE’s Milwaukee office specializing in retail real estate advisory and transactions. He began his real estate career in 2006 with the Retail Properties Group at CBRE.
Ben was awarded 2011 Outstanding Young Professional after being involved in over 150 lease transactions totaling over 400,000 square feet of retail space during his first five years at CBRE. Ben is now one of the top leasing professionals in Wisconsin and a trusted advisor to many of the most respected retail real estate investors and occupiers in the state.
Education
- Bachelor degree in Commercial Real Estate from Marquette University
- Executive Retail Fundamentals & Strategy Course, Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing, University of Arizona
- CCIM – CI 101 – Financial Analysis for Commercial Real Estate Investment
- CBRE University – Retail Studies
- CBRE University – Accelerate Program
Pro Affiliations / Accreditations
- Member, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
- Member, Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW)
- Member, Wisconsin Realtors Association (WRA)
- Member, National Association of Realtors (NAR)
- Member, Real Estate Alumni Marquette (REALM)
- Board of Directors, Milwaukee Community Service Corps
Significant Lease Transactions
- Planet Fitness
Brookfield & Fond du Lac
52,000 SF - PGA TOUR Superstore
Brookfield
44,044 SF - Burlington & Citi Trends
Milwaukee
37,000 SF - Michaels
Oshkosh & Sheboygan
32,000 SF - Pet Supplies Plus
Germantown & Oconomowoc
16,000 SF - Petco
Green Bay
16,000 SF
Clients Represented
- Anytime Fitness
- Basecamp Fitness
- Community Medical
- Cost Cutters
- Eyemart Express
- Goodyear
- Mad Chicken
- LL Flooring
- Orange Shoe Fitness
- Petco
- Spectrum
- Supercuts
- The Chocolate Factory
- Waxing the City
Investor Clients Represented
- Alexander & Bishop
- Devo Properties
- Irgens
- L2 Partners
- Midland Management
- PJR Properties
- Schermerhorn
- Slate Properties
- Van Horn Real Estate