Colliers International announces 2018 Top Producers, Walter M. Keenan Award Recipient and Transaction of the Year

January 24, 2019

Colliers International | South Carolina announced the commercial real estate firm’s brokerage awards for 2018. The top 10 brokerage associates across the state were honored as Top Producers, along with the top producer earning the distinction of receiving the Walter M. Keenan Award, which is named after a former leader of the firm. Additionally, the Transaction of the Year was awarded to a team of Colliers’ brokerage associates for the completion of the year’s most outstanding transaction.

The Walter M. Keenan Award winner and top producer for Colliers in the state of South Carolina is Garrett Scott, SIOR, Vice President. Working primarily out of the Spartanburg office, Scott is an industrial specialist in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson area, providing leasing, sales and development advisory services for industrial clients across the market. This marks the second year in a row that Scott has been honored with the Walter M. Keenan Award, a reflection of his impact on the robust industrial market in the Upstate of South Carolina and of the value that he and his team provide to tenants and buyers in navigating the market.

In addition to Scott, the 2018 Top Producers recognized for their superior performance were, in alphabetical order:

  • Tripp Bradley
  • Brockton Hall
  • Frank Hammond, CCIM, CPM
  • Tommy Johnson
  • Dave Mathews, SIOR
  • Rox Pollard
  • Henry Roe
  • Chuck Salley, SIOR
  • Craig Waites

 

The Transaction of the Year award was presented to Garrett Scott, SIOR, John Montgomery, Brockton Hall and Ashley Fenlon for their work on the GSP North America headquarters tenant representation deal. During negotiations for this transaction, the brokerage team was also able to simultaneously secure the leasing of existing client Scannell Property’s speculative building. In identifying a solution for one client, this team effectively created two transactions for their respective clients, resulting in successful transactions with a gross value of $15.2 million

 

About Colliers International

Colliers International | South Carolina has over 140 staff members, including 60 real estate professionals, covering the entire state with locations in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville andSpartanburg. Total 2018 brokerage volume exceeded $577 million, which included over 505 sales and leasing transactions. In addition to traditional commercial real estate representation services for our clients, the company is actively engaged in Corporate Solutions and Healthcare Services. Colliers International is an Accredited Management Organization (AMO) through the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and is the largest manager of commercial real estate properties in South Carolina, with a portfolio of nearly 12 million square feet of office, industrial, retail and healthcare properties. Colliers International’s staff holds 46 professional designations, the most of any firm in South Carolina. Colliers | South Carolina’s partner, LCK, provides project management services for new facilities and renovations across South Carolina.

Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGI) (TSX: CIGI) is a top tier global real estate services and investment management company operating in 69 countries with a workforce of more than 13,000 professionals. Colliers is the fastest-growing publicly listed global real estate services and investment management company, with 2017 corporate revenues of $2.3 billion ($2.7 billion including affiliates). With an enterprising culture and significant employee ownership and control, Colliers professionals provide a full range of services to real estate occupiers, owners and investors worldwide, and through its investment management services platform, has more than $20 billion of assets under management from the world’s most respected institutional real estate investors.

Colliers professionals think differently, share great ideas and offer thoughtful and innovative advice to accelerate the success of its clients. Colliers has been ranked among the top 100 global outsourcing firms by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals for 13 consecutive years, more than any other real estate services firm. Colliers is ranked the number one property manager in the world by Commercial Property Executive for two years in a row.