NOTE: The following release was sent from Wood Properties, Inc., a Knoxville Chamber member business.
George W. Brown recently joined Wood Properties, Inc.’s commercial brokerage team as an affiliate broker. Mr. Brown, a Maryville native and University of Tennessee graduate, is returning to East Tennessee after spending 5 years in New York City.
In New York, Mr. Brown sold commercial real estate for Massey Knakal Realty Services, the city’s No. 1 building sales firm (by number of transactions). In less than two years with the firm, he closed several deals with an aggregate value exceeding $10 million. Properties sold included development sites, retail properties and warehouse/garage buildings.
Prior to joining Massey Knakal, Mr. Brown was a media relations manager for CB Richard Ellis. Before entering real estate, he was a public relations professional with Dye Van Mol & Lawrence in Nashville and later with Fleishman-Hillard International Communications in New York.
Mr. Brown obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in communications from UT, where he majored in public relations, minored in political science and finished summa cum laude. While at UT, he worked several internships, including those at UT’s Daily Beacon, TVA, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson’s Knoxville and Washington D.C. offices, and The Ingram Group.
Mr. Brown lives in Farragut with his wife and son.
Since 1976, Wood Properties has been one of the area’s leading providers of commercial real estate services. Wood Properties provides brokerage services, acting as agent for sellers/landlords and buyers/tenants; management services, of both commercial and multi-family properties; and development services.
NOTE: This release was sent by Corporate Quarters, a Knoxville Chamber member business.
Sherry Williams, Founder and President of Corporate Quarters, is retiring after 14 years of building a solid reputation in the corporate housing industry. Kim Lawhorn, who has worked side-by-side with Sherry for the past ten years, has purchased the company. Lawhorn vows to continue the business with the same goals, and vision, Sherry has continually had through the years: MAKING EACH AND EVERY GUEST FEEL RIGHT AT HOME.
For travelers who have single locale extended stays for a week or longer; there is an alternative to hotel living. This alternative is “CORPORATE QUARTERS.” The company is a local, woman owned, business with its main goal being: ‘YOUR COMFORT!’
Whether guests are relocating for their company, have been displaced from their homes due to fire or flood, vacationing, or in between real estate transactions; it's nice to have a sense of home, while away from home. Corporate Quarters is here to help. Those who stay in the fully furnished apartments will find all the comforts of home. A full size, fully equipped, kitchen, where favorite meals can be prepared, is located in each apartment. Convenient washers and dryers are also in each apartment, as is plenty of room to entertain family and friends.
“In the big scheme of things, a corporate apartment can be more economically friendly than a hotel,” says Lawhorn. “When compared to the costs of extended stay hotels, our apartment homes allow large savings for employers. Furthermore, any of our one, two or three bedroom, fully furnished, apartment homes gives our guests comfort.”
Corporate Quarters realizes many of its guests would be lost without their four-legged friends; the corporate apartment community invites pets. A few breed restrictions are in force but Corporate Quarters is happy to accommodate most household companions.
“Other plusses corporate apartment living provides are more space and available resort style amenities,” Williams says. “Our guests reside in a quiet, residential apartment community where their neighbors are permanent residents rather than ever-changing hotel guests. This neighborhood atmosphere is important to many people new to the area. Being a part of our apartment community gives our residents comfort because they know each member of the community has certain criteria that has to be met prior to becoming a resident.“
Corporate Quarters is worth checking out for those who plan to be in the area a week, a month or even a year. Corporate Quarters invites you to take a tour of their community by visiting their website at www.knoxcorporateapts.com
Those that enjoy what they see, via the internet, are invited to contact the company for a personal tour anytime. Janice Graves, Corporate Quarters Business Development, would love to assist anyone needing more information about locations, accommodations, and corporate discount plans.
NOTE: The following release was sent by Wood Properties, Inc., a Knoxville Chamber member business.
John M. Adams III, CCIM, SIOR of Wood Properties, Inc. has achieved the SIOR Office Specialist designation awarded by the SOCIETY OF INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE REALTORS®, an international association of professional commercial real estate brokers. John is one of only six SIOR’s in Knoxville.
To achieve the SIOR designation, John completed five years of creditable experience in the highly specialized field of office real estate; and demonstrated to SIOR professional ability, competency, ethical conduct, and personal integrity. John becomes the second individual in Knoxville to hold the SIOR Office Specialist and CCIM designations.
The SOCIETY OF INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE REALTORS® is the leading professional commercial and industrial real estate association. With more than 3,200 members in 562 cities in 22 countries, SIOR represents today’s most knowledgeable, experienced, and successful commercial real estate brokerage specialists.
SIOR has certified more than 2,500 of its members with the prestigious SIOR designation, a professional symbol of the highest level of knowledge, production, and ethics in the real estate industry. Real estate professionals who have earned the SIOR designation are recognized by corporate real estate executives, commercial real estate brokers, agents, lenders, and other real estate professionals as the most capable and experienced brokerage practitioners in any market. SIOR designees can hold the following specialty designations: industrial, office, sales manager, executive manager, or advisory service.
The most recent data extrapolated from an SIOR member survey revealed that SIOR designees closed more than 82,747 transactions involving 2.7 billion square feet of commercial real estate bought, sold or leased. These transactions totaled $85.6 billion, or an average of $33.5 million per member.
John, a Knoxville native, was awarded the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation by the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute in 2007. He was elected the 2008 President of the East Tennessee CCIM Chapter. John is a member of Nucleus Knoxville, where he serves as the new member representative for the Nucleus Executive Committee. John is also a member of the Commercial Investment Committee at the Knoxville Association of Realtors.
Note: This release was sent from First Tennessee Bank, a Knoxville Chamber member business.
First Tennessee Bank recently named Karen Johnson senior corporate real estate and properties manager.
Before joining First Tennessee, Johnson served for five years as a facility manager with CB Richard Ellis and was assigned to the Regions Bank account.
Johnson is a member of the International Facility Management Association, the National Association of Realtors and the Tennessee Association of Realtors. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from California Coast University in 2005.
Johnson resides in the Middlebrook Heights community.
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