Professional Experience
Associated Office
David Hartsook has been involved in commercial investment real estate in Central Ohio for over 30 years. As a member of CBRE Investment Properties he offers extensive experience with office/medical office, industrial, retail, land, and investment properties as well as a wide variety of development opportunities.
David represents buyers in their search and analysis, sellers in their disposition or repositioning of real estate assets, and investors in their search for 1031 exchanges, portfolio investments and fund investments.
Throughout his career, David has facilitated hundreds of real estate transactions. David’s developmental experience includes a wide variety of development, redevelopment, land acquisition, financing, construction, and multi-location company projects throughout the entire country. In addition to selling investment properties while operating his own company for 18 years, he served as an outsourced real estate department for Stanley Steemer, Adia Personnel and Symix Computer Software in 50 markets across the country.
During the 1980’s, David was responsible for a yearly $40 million development budget in the Central Ohio office of Linclay Corporation, creating institutional quality Office, Retail & Industrial properties. As Vice President of the Columbus Division of the Linclay Corporation, a regional developer, his was the most consistently profitable division in the 5-division company. His strong leadership skills in managing a team of 65 professionals led to the development and creation of over $225 million worth of commercial properties totaling nearly 2.4 million square feet of commercial real estate property. His efforts directly resulted in Linclay-Columbus becoming highly recognized as a strong, reliable developer and competitor of institutional investment grade properties throughout the entire Midwest region.
Other significant projects that David has been involved with include:
- Overseeing construction of a stand-alone facility in North Las Vegas for Stanley Steemer International
- Redevelopment of a grocery-anchored urban shopping center
- Site acquisition and incentive package for the Cheryl’s Cookies headquarters in Westerville
- Board of Directors – Ohio Living Foundation (fka OPRS Foundation)
- Upper Arlington Community Improvement Corporation – Past President
- Most Unique C/I Transaction Award 2009 – Columbus Board of Realtors
- Lifetime Achievement Award – Columbus Board of Realtors
- 25-MIlion Dollar Club – Columbus Board of Realtors
- CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) – National Association of Realtors
- Board of Advisors – Lighthouse Tennis Villas Regime, Hilton Head Island, SC
- Ohio Living Governance Board
- Land Acquisition and Development
Corporate Exchange 6 building office park Columbus, Ohio
$100,000,000 - Land Acquisition and Development
Corporate Hill 4 building office project in Worthington, Ohio
$40,000,000 - Development / Disposition
60 acre abandoned stone quarry in Lima, Ohio
$30,000,000 - Acquisition
Granada Royale Hotel Franchise (Embassy Suites)
$30,000,000 - National Representative
Multi-location Central Ohio based corporations
$25,000,000 - Development
100-acre industrial business park in Columbus, Ohio
$25,000,000 - Acquisitions
Regional mall 100-acre sites in multi-state area East of Mississippi
$20,000,000 - Trinity Health
107,000 SF, New Albany, Ohio
$19,000,000 - Joint Venture
JMB/Federated -150,000 SF enclosed shopping center
$15,000,000 - Redevelopment
Urban grocery-anchored shopping center Columbus, Ohio
$10,000,000 - Redevelopment
100 acres including a 54-acre quarry in Findlay, Ohio
$5,000,000 - Cheryl’s Cookies
Relocate, land acquisition and negotiations for city incentives package
$5,000,000 - Cardinal Orthopedic Institute
24,000 SF MOB, Hilliard, Ohio
$4,650,000
“When we found our new “home” the ease with which the negotiations, construction and move in all happened was pretty phenomenal; even though I’d never been through it before. To be able to have our new rent be almost ½ of what it was, have termination ability and no personal liability was so exciting, I could’ve almost screamed. Thanks for caring for us.”
- Dena S. Merriman, D.P.M., Premier Podiatry
“You helped us to find our office space and spent a great deal of time locating a good property to begin our new business venture. I appreciated your patience while we were solidifying our business plan and securing financing. Your counsel and resources were tremendously helpful as we looked at numerous properties before selecting the property we acquired.”
- Timothy A. Michael, President & CEO, Michael Freres & Associates, Inc.
“Thank you so much for all of your help from leasing to financing our building expansion. I have to say putting myself into this new role as Property Manager I was very leery of this new venture, but with your guidance and knowledge we are doing quite well by having 94% of the space leased and we have a building that has been functional and profitable. Thanks for all the invaluable information you were able to give and looking forward to any other future ventures.”
- Cindy Poland, Owner Manager, Pickerington Health Center
“I just wanted to send along our organization’s appreciation for all the help and good work you’ve provided us over the past several years. Your tireless efforts in identifying potential sites for our CHOICES building led eventually to a perfect solution for LSSCO. Not only did you help us identify the site but your efforts to negotiate a fair deal saved us countless hours. More recently you helped us sell three apartment buildings in Lancaster. The success of these transactions was of great importance to our non-profit organization as we continued our recovery from the impacts of the pandemic.”
- Rick Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
Lutheran Social Services
- The Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science; Business Administration, Real Estate - Center for Creative Leadership
NAR: Certified Commercial Investment Member
Team Overview
Specialize in office investment properties throughout Columbus.
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