Mark is a certified business broker and intermediary and a licensed real estate sales person in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (licensed through Arrow Real Estate Services). He have 45+ years of expertise in the Retail, Restaurant, and Health & Wellness Asset Classes serving roles as a corporate Site Selector, Real Estate Strategist, Deal Negotiator, Facilities Manager, Lease Administrator and Design & Construction Management. Our clients include startup concepts, growing established operators and forced business closures, in the Retail, Restaurant, Light Industrial and Medical Health Care sectors. Ou primary role is the representation of national and regional retailers and service providers in their local Philadelphia and New Jersey market expansions and consulting and representation of Business Sellers and Buyers, throughout the US. I offer value added value real estate services and business brokerage services including strategic real estate market expansion planning, trade area store deployment analysis, site selection, deal negotiations and full management of business sale transactions from financial valuations through settlement coordination. I have worked with both retail tenants and landlords on the leasing of retail shopping center space in strips centers, lifestyle centers and malls. I have identified and negotiated 350+ commercial real estate deals including ground up developments, land purchases, ground leases, building purchases & leases and specialty mall and strip center leasing.
Mark brings over 45 years experience as a corporate retail real estate executive and manager, overseeing real estate dealmaking, strategy, store design and store construction departments with companies including the Ascena Retail Group, Catherines, Five Below, Spencer Gifts and Aerosoles. Mark was also a key deal maker and directed regional and national real estate activity as a member of the store expansion teams at CarMax, Circuit City, Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Blockbuster, Zany Brainy, IKEA and Brookstone. Mark has performed site selection and deal negotiation on over 450 retail store purchase and lease transactions in virtually every major and secondary market in the US and Puerto Rico. He has opened retail stores in shopping center venues including lifestyle centers, neighborhood center, strip/power centers, regional malls, outlet centers and urban street locations. In addition to representing tenants he has also worked with landlords in the design, development and leasing of their rental properties and has extensive experience in the disposition and sale of commercial retail surplus properties.
Worked sites and managed deals in the CRE environment including: industrial parks, freestanding parcels, mixed use developments, lifestyle centers, specialty strip centers, power centers, regional and super-regional enclosed malls, city centers, town centers, festival marketplaces, airports and urban street storefronts.
Developed and managed key real estate approval processes, electronic facility lifecycle management systems and real estate financial analysis tools.
Developed sales, revenue and EBITDA modeling and forecasting tools utilizing GIS mapping, CHAID applications and regression analysis techniques.
Expertise in big data mining and analysis of key customer metrics and profiling to predict sales.
Originated, worked deals and managed real estate projects in every small, medium and large market in the US and PR.
