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Tony Cerniglia is a First Vice President in the Retail Services division of CBRE. He is currently responsible for tenant/landlord representation and project leasing in the Southeast market. His duties include leasing, acquisition/disposition, land brokerage and development.

Previously, Mr. Cerniglia was Vice President of Staubach Retail-Southeast. Prior to joining Staubach, he was a Senior Vice President for Wells Real Estate Investment Trust from 1996 to 2005, a real estate investment trust located in Atlanta. Wells’ primary business was acquiring commercial real estate leased to high credit, national tenants. During Mr. Cerniglia’s career at Wells, the company grew from a local company with $25 million in annual revenue to a national firm with more than $4 billion in annual revenue. In 2001 and 2002, Wells was the largest purchaser of commercial real estate in the United States. Mr. Cerniglia’s duties included leasing, acquisition, disposition and underwriting of commercial properties, and was responsible for a 10 million-square-foot portfolio of properties nationwide.

Mr. Cerniglia is a native of Atlanta and has been engaged in the commercial real estate business since 1981.

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Specializing in Retail Commercial Real Estate Services throughout the Southeast.

CBRE Atlanta Retail Services provides retail property owners and occupiers with sophisticated strategies based on our local market knowledge and our comprehensive resources leveraged through the CBRE global services platform. Our professionals’ real estate expertise, which includes operations, finance, marketing, management, and technology, will allow you to thrive in Atlanta, the pre-eminent retail core of the Southeastern US. 

Our partnership approach to business proves beneficial to our clients. As your trusted advisor, we will gain an understanding of your objectives and then craft a plan to steward you toward achieving them. As advisors, facilitators, and negotiators, we always look out for our client's best interest.

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More than any other business, retailers recognize the power of real estate in building their brand, and partnering with CBRE Atlanta helps them realize the full potential of their real estate assets. We never think about real estate in isolation; we have an in-depth understanding of the retail business. We seek to familiarize ourselves with our clients—ensuring that their real estate strategy is completely aligned with their business objectives.

We invest time into listening and understanding your business, enabling us to find the creative solutions to your needs. Our professionals look beyond short-term transactions to long-term relationships, always putting the client’s interest first.

The services we offer are as diverse as our clients:

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Retail property owners need and deserve a personalized approach delivered by professionals who partner with them to help leverage the capital they have invested. Our goal is to maximize value, whether it’s a single market asset or a multi-market portfolio.

Retailer Representation

CBRE’s Retailer Representation provides retailers with the specialized dedication of a core group of like-minded professionals who are capable of handling the unique needs of a retailer’s real estate. This translates into seamless, consistent service delivery, market-to-market, for our clients. Our professionals have expertise in all facets of retail real estate, including operations, finance, marketing, management and technology. Depending on the need, we can augment any existing real estate department or offer a totally outsourced solution.

Investment Sales

The focus of Investment Sales is to optimize the value of our clients' retail assets by implementing strategies that leverage our unparalleled market network. Serving as advisors, consultants and intermediaries to institutional and private clients alike, our professionals specialize in the acquisition and disposition of retail investment assets on a regional, national and international level.

Debt & Equity Financing

The CBRE Capital Markets—Debt & Equity Finance Group Atlanta is a veteran production team that provides financial lending expertise and specialization across all property types and capital structures including retail. Our staff includes eight highly experienced real estate finance professionals, five dedicated production analysts and three servicing professionals.

Our team views each financing assignment as an opportunity to serve as a trusted capital advisor and to maximize the value of our client’s real estate investments. We excel in structuring capital solutions and in developing and implementing custom applications that meet our client’s strategic goals and objectives.

Valuation & Advisory

The Valuation and Advisory retail team provides investment and commercial banks, corporations, pension funds, investors, property owners, REITs and government agencies with single-asset, multi-market and multi-property valuations. In addition to their superior local market knowledge, they also have access to leading global data providers such as Torto Wheaton Research, CoStar, REIS, RCA, LexisNexis, Moody’s and Marshall & Swift.

In addition to valuation and appraisal reports, the VAS team includes Cost Segregation professionals who are adapt at performing non-intrusive, highly-detailed, engineering-based studies of retail properties in order to identify specific components that qualify for accelerated tax depreciation over five, seven and 15 years rather than the traditional 39 years for commercial property.

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CBRE offers skilled project management services. Our team has the experience, personnel and understanding of the coordination and expertise necessary to deliver tenant build-out projects in a professional, cost effective and timely fashion.

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    Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Corporate Capital Markets

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  • Kirk Buttle

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  • Amy Fingerhut

    Senior Vice President

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  • Marisa Roy

    Vice President

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