Page 28 —
COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— February 4-February 17, 2015
by Jill Jamieson-Nichols
Everyone wants to know
how Cushman & Wakefield
of Colorado’s new invest-
ment brokerage team will fill
the last team’s exceptionally
large shoes.
The answer is that Jon Hen-
drickson and Aaron Johnson
are going to wear their own
shoes.
“We want to create our own
brand, our own team, our
own way of executing the
business,” said Hendrickson.
Hendrickson’s recent move
from Marcus & Millichap to
Cushman & Wakefield adds a
full-service, global dimension
to his 10 years in commercial
real estate investment sales.
It’s also a chance to build a
partnership with Johnson, a
longtime friend with a com-
plementary skill set and the
same, competitive drive.
“One of the attractions to
having joined Cushman &
Wakefield is I now have a
partner in Aaron Johnson and
a team that will be able to
serve a larger portion of the
market,” said Hendrickson,
whose expertise is in retail
and office investment sales.
Johnson brings an ownership
perspective, having worked
with Etkin Johnson Real
Estate Partners and Opus.
“That is the combination
of skills we can utilize to
benefit our clients,” said Hen-
drickson, noting the team’s
relationships span both insti-
tutional and private capital
clients.
Hendrickson, a Minne-
sota native with a degree in
finance and marketing, has
done nothing but investment
sales since graduating from
the University of Iowa and
moving to Colorado in 2004.
He learned the business from
Marcus & Millichap’s Gar-
rette Matlock and can’t imag-
ine a better mentor.
“As an investment broker,
you have to understand the
entire operation of an asset.
You have to understand the
dynamics of what’s taking
place in the leasing market
and how that relates to the
property. You need to under-
stand what’s going on on
the debt and equity side of
things,” he said.
Hendrickson’s transactions
have included the multimil-
lion-dollar sale of a 15-build-
ing office/retail portfolio
on the Pearl Street Mall in
Boulder, a deal that took two
years to complete. “I look at
that transaction as a privilege
because I was able to work
on behalf of an entrepreneur
who had compiled one of the
most unique portfolios in the
Front Range,” he said, add-
ing the deal allowed the seller
to maximize the value of his
life’s work.
He also sold Plante Prop-
erties’ collection of historic
buildings in Lower Down-
town and the Central Platte
Valley, and the $10.45 million
Riverfront Park retail port-
folio. His work has included
numerous sales of grocery-
anchored shopping centers,
including the Marketplace
at Austin Bluffs in Colorado
Springs for more than $33
million and Kipling Mar-
ketplace, a $12.45 million
transaction that involved two
of the nation’s largest retail
owners.
First and foremost in any
transaction is “the outcome
that the client is seeking,”
said 33-year-old Hendrickson.
“The client is interested in
two things from us: infor-
mation and opportunities.
They want to understand all
aspects of what’s taking place
in the market and affecting
the value of their property
or portfolio, and to have a
global, full-service platform
behind you gives you the
ability to provide more infor-
mation and more opportuni-
ties,” he said.
“Clients are seeking more
sophisticated insight and
analysis,” said Hendrickson,
adding the move to Cushman
& Wakefield improves upon
the quality of information
and services he provides to
clients.
Hendrickson and his wife,
Ali, live in Washington Park
and enjoy all that Colorado’s
lifestyle has to offer. Hen-
drickson’s pastimes include
golf, bicycling and skiing,
as well as playing hockey.
“I guess I like to compete
whether I’m in the office or
out of it,” he said.
s
Profile
Jon Hendrickson
Barry Robinson
was named
senior vice president of
Capital
Hotel Management.
In this new role for the hotel
asset management and invest-
ment advisory firm, Robinson
will be responsible for provid-
ing asset management and
advisory services to new and
existing clients as they grow
their hotel investment portfo-
lios through improving returns
on existing properties, acquisi-
tions and new development.
Robinson is based in Denver,
where CHM is involved in
several projects, including the
Westin Denver International
Airport hotel.
A 20-year hospitality industry
veteran, Robinson formerly
served as senior vice president
of hotel investments with CHM
in Hawaii before becoming
executive vice president of
hotel investments for Miller
Global Properties LLC. He also
has held a number of asset
management positions with
companies including Prudential
Realty Group and Bass Hotels
& Resorts.
Robinson, who has overseen
more than $2 billion in hotel
assets, received a Bachelor of
Science degree in hotel and
restaurant administration from
Cornell University and his
Master of Business Administra-
tion from the University of San
Francisco’s international busi-
ness-executive program.
s
Jay Richert,
loan analyst and
stockholder in
Terrix Financial
Corp.,
has been promoted to
vice president.
Richert joined the commercial
mortgage banking firm in 2002
and underwrites new commer-
cial real estate loans as well as
taking on managing the Colora-
do servicing portfolio, verifying
annual insurance compliance
and operating statements for
Terrix Financial’s correspon-
dent life
insurance
companies.
He gradu-
ated from the
University of
Akron with
a bachelor’s
degree in
finance and
the Univer-
sity of Colo-
rado with a Master of Business
Administration in finance.
s
Craig N. Johnson
was select-
ed as the new managing direc-
tor of
Fairfield and Woods PC.
Caroline C. Fuller, who pre-
viously held the position at
the full-service law firm, will
remain with Fairfield and
Woods and continue her prac-
tice focusing on bankruptcy
and receiverships.
As a director in the firm’s liti-
gation group, Johnson focuses
on complex commercial litiga-
tion primarily for clients in the
utilities, banking and financial
services industries. He joined
the firm in 2009.
s
Lindsay McKae
was elected
to
Lewis Roca Rothgerber
LLP’s
partnership.
McKae is a transactional
attorney representing a variety
of lending institutions in com-
plex finance
transactions,
including real
estate acqui-
sition and
construction
loans, asset-
based and
other collater-
alized financ-
ings, low-
income hous-
ing tax credit and tax-exempt
bonds and loans, refinancings,
loan workouts, modifications,
foreclosures and deeds in lieu
of foreclosures. She also com-
monly advises private and
public clients on a local and
regional basis on acquisitions,
dispositions, development and
leasing of various real estate
assets. Additionally, McKae
represents corporate clients on
a wide array of business trans-
actions, including formations,
corporate compliance and man-
agement issues, and stock and
asset sales and purchases. She
is based in the law firm’s Den-
ver office.
s
Law firm
Husch Blackwell
recently promoted 13 attorneys
to partnership, including three
in Denver.
Daniel L. Bray
is a member
of the firm’s financial services
industry team. He advises
national, regional and com-
munity banks in all aspects of
their business with a focus on
secured commercial lending.
He has represented lenders in
documenting and structuring
construction, bridge, mezzanine
and permanent loans, as well
as syndicated and participated
credit facilities. Bray also helps
his banking clients resolve trou-
bled commercial loans through
loan sales, workouts, foreclo-
sures, collections and lender-
liability litigation, mechanic’s
lien litigation, contested receiv-
ership litigation, bankruptcy
representation and REO sales.
Bray received his Juris Doctor
from the University of Iowa
College of Law, his master’s in
international economics and
international relations, with
honors and distinction, from
Johns Hopkins University in
Washington, D.C., and his
bachelor’s in history, with hon-
ors and high distinction, from
the University of Iowa.
Jennifer Haynes
is a mem-
ber of the firm’s real estate,
development and construction
industry team. She focuses on
traditional real estate transac-
tions and real estate develop-
ment with an emphasis on
senior housing, affordable
housing, master-planned com-
munities, resort and other
mixed-use projects. She has
closed hundreds of millions
of dollars in commercial real
estate sale and purchase trans-
actions and has represented
developers in the creation
and documentation of com-
The PCL family of com-
panies will donate $300,000
over the next three years to
the American Red Cross in an
effort to proactively invest in
disaster-response operations.
“PCL understands the
importance of investing in
infrastructure and training in
advance,” said Gino Greco,
CEO of the Red Cross of Colo-
rado & Wyoming. “This type
of support enables the Red
Cross to build our resourc-
es, train our volunteers and
prepare our communities so
that we’re better prepared to
respond when disaster strikes,
and our communities aremore
resilient in the face of disas-
ters.”
A majority of the donation
will support proactive disaster-
relief efforts, enabling the non-
profit to procure supplies, train
disaster-response workers,
and establish critical disaster-
response infrastructure before
disasters strike.
“We understand just how
devastating natural disasters
can be and the toll they can
take on communities,” Shaun
Yancey, president and chief
operating officer of PCL’s U.S.
Operations said. “Through this
partnership we’re able to help
the American Red Cross better
respond to disasters they see
by providing food, shelter and
health services for millions of
victims.”
This is the second time PCL
Construction has partnered
with the American Red Cross
in the form of a multiyear,
$300,000 donation, the first
being in 2011 through 2014.
s
PCL Construction donates $300,000 to
American Red Cross over three years
High Fives! recognizes good deeds and accomplishments
by companies and individuals in the Colorado commercial
real estate industry. Please share your good news
and photos with us by emaili
Submissions should be 200 words or less.
Jay Richert
Lindsay McKae
