JLL hires veteran in hospitality team expansion; Newmark promotes trio for valuation business; Aventon adds executive for Southeast growth

Kristina D’Amico joined JLL as a vice president in the real estate services firm's hotels and hospitality group. D’Amico joined JLL after 14 years at HVS Consulting & Valuation and will be based in JLL’s Miami office as part of the hotel asset management team. JLL said D’Amico will focus on client services and portfolio growth in the southern U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean.

At HVS in Miami, she worked on valuations of hospitality properties totaling more than $5 billion. D’Amico has conducted feasibility studies and valuations for luxury hotels and resorts, mixed-use developments and branded residential components across the Caribbean and in Mexico and other Latin American countries. JLL’s global hotel asset management practice oversees 135 hotels valued at more than $15 billion.

Newmark named several new U.S. regional leaders as the brokerage ramps up offerings in its valuation and advisory services practice. The brokerage said it promoted a trio to be regional managing directors in the group. They are Jay Booth in the West, Norm LeZotte in the South and Rob Vodinelic in the Midwest-Northeast region.

Booth is based in Portland, Oregon, and will also serve as co-leader of the valuation team’s retail-focused practice. LeZotte is based in Tampa, Florida, and Vodinelic is in Columbus, Ohio.

Newmark’s valuation division also named Cameron Parker as Southwest market leader and James Agner as co-leader of its golf specialty practice. Agner also serves as market leader in Florida. New York-based Newmark also expanded Tony Roberts’ role as market leader in Michigan, to also include Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

Multifamily developer Aventon Cos. hired Jeff Furman as senior managing director as it looks to expand operations in North Carolina and other states in the Southeast. The Raleigh, North Carolina based firm said Furman, who has more than 20 years of experience with multifamily projects, will oversee acquisition of new sites for suburban apartment complexes while managing existing developments. His new role will focus primarily on the Raleigh-Durham area and greater Charlotte, North Carolina, region.

Furman worked most recently as a development partner and director of Raleigh operations at Northwood Ravin, and before that worked as director of development at Crosland. Aventon acquires, builds and manages multifamily projects in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Mid-Atlantic states. It has regional offices in Atlanta; West Palm Beach and Orlando, Florida; and Bethesda, Maryland.

Real estate services firm Mohr Partners said it recruited industry veterans Dennis Burnside and Scott Pollock to establish a new Cleveland office, where they will serve managing partners and co-market leaders for Ohio, effective April 1. Both worked previously at real estate consulting firm Vestian, where they formed that firm’s Cleveland leadership team. They will be tasked with growing Mohr’s Ohio presence by opening additional new offices in Columbus and Cincinnati, the brokerage said.

Burnside is a 30-year industry veteran who previously worked at Mohr Partners before establishing his own real estate advisory firm, Juniper Solutions. Pollock’s 22-year career includes real estate consulting, purchase, sale and lease transactions totaling more than $1 billion in value. Dallas-based Mohr Partners is focused primarily on representing corporate tenants and operates 23 offices nationwide, including a recently opened office in Seattle.

Real estate investment and development firm Foxfield made several management promotions as part of ongoing expansion across the East Coast. The Boston-based firm said Garrett Hatton was named managing director of asset management, overseeing business and portfolio planning. Mark Tang is now the company’s managing director of development and construction, in charge of permitting, development and related building operations.

The company also named three employees to new executive roles. Walter Cabot is vice president of development, Rob Caderas is vice president of acquisitions and Andrew Cowan is vice president of asset management. Foxfield also named Jackie Eamer as a director, after prior work as vice president and controller; and Nick Eddy as senior vice president of construction. Foxfield focuses primarily on industrial and residential properties and has regional offices in Atlanta, New York and Philadelphia. It has a $1 billion development pipeline and more than 7 million square feet of assets under management or development.