Colorado Real Estate Journal - July 6, 2016
NAIOP Colorado’s Sherman R. Miller Trailblazer Award winner has achieved much since entering commercial real estate in 2008, including skipping promotion titles due to an overwhelming production total during 2015. Courtney Carnahan Hasson, a Newmark Grubb Knight Frank director who said her success would not have been possible without support of her NGKF team, has transaction experience in multiple major urban and suburban markets with all facets of commercial real estate, from ground-up development to repositioning assets. Her diversified client base includes real estate investment trusts, institutional, entrepreneurial and operating partners. In the last three years, she has been involved in more than 350 transactions with a combined deal value of $1.5 billion. Hasson has been responsible for the leasing, sale and repositioning of more than 3 million square feet in the Denver market and has a current portfolio encompassing 1.4 million sf with seven major clients. In the last 12 months, she and her partner have represented tenants including AIMCO, Finance of America and OnDeck Capital. She is responsible for drafting options summaries with hierarchy of needs, providing financial analyses for proposals, negotiating proposals, providing business terms, lease comments, and coordination with the architects and project managers. Her key transactions included: • Triad at Orchard Station (client: M&J Wilkow/Wayzata): a 414,000-sf, Class B project located in the southeast suburban submarket. Hasson, along with partner Jamie Gard, repositioned the asset, leasing 260,000 sf and increasing the rental rate $7.50 per RSF in a 16-month period. • The Lab at 17th and Platte: Hasson worked with Brue Capital and Confluent Development on the development of the project, which received the NAIOP award for Innovative Development of the Year. She and her team developed the branding and marketing campaign that resulted in the successful sale of the building and secured WeWork as a major tenant. • 1515 Wynkoop (client: American Realty Advisors): a 307,000-sf, Class A project located in Denver’s central business district. Hasson and her team leased the asset to 100 percent occupancy at record rates. • Highland Court (Client: DPC Development Co.): a 93,000-sf suburban, Class B project. Hasson leased 40,000 sf above pro forma rental rates to achieve the building’s highest occupancy rate in more than 10 years. • Additionally, Hasson leased over 2.5 million sf of Class A and B office projects in Houston, Texas, including Pennzoil Place, a 1.3 million-sf Class A asset in Houston’s CBD. She participated in a team that led to a substantial restack of 460,000 sf.