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Stream Realty Partners hired Greg Biggs in Dallas. (Stream)
Stream Realty Partners hired Greg Biggs in Dallas. (Stream)

Stream Expands Dallas Office Tenant Rep Team

A 32-year veteran of the Dallas commercial real estate industry has joined Stream Realty Partners in a move that reunites him with three former colleagues.

The national real estate development, investment and property services company has recruited Greg Biggs as an executive vice president in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where he will help expand the firm's office tenant representation business.

Most recently the director of development at Dallas-based Cawley Partners, Biggs specializes in complex build-to-suit deals, lease negotiations, acquisitions and dispositions of office properties.

Biggs previously worked alongside Stream's Randy Cooper, a vice chairman, and managing directors Craig Wilson and Dan Harris at Cushman & Wakefield and the former Cassidy Turley. In a corporate statement announcing his latest move, Biggs said he’s “excited to get to work with them again at Stream.”

Biggs moved to JLL in 2013 and spent more than seven years there before joining Cawley. He helped negotiate a 300,000-square-foot lease for AmerisourceBergen in Carrollton, Texas, and assisted Epsilon in locating its corporate headquarters in Irving. Biggs is also the author of “Is Commercial Real Estate for You?”

DALLAS

BBG Launches New Seismic Services Group

Joshua Marrow

Due diligence commercial real estate services firm BBG Assessment has launched its seismic services practice group.

The new business will provide seismic risk assessment consulting, reporting, seismic evaluations, policy and scope consulting, and retrofit advisory to a client list that includes commercial lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, institutional investors, public real estate investment trusts and various government agencies including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The team is led by managing director Joshua Marrow, directors Andy Yiu and Eddy Yau, and project coordinator Ellen Wang.

Marrow brings more than two decades of structural engineering and seismic risk consulting experience, having conducted several thousand assessments throughout his career, with a focus on construction and defect budget analysis and insurance claims.

Andy Yiu, from left, Eddy Yau and Ellen Wang

Yiu has focused on structural design for existing buildings, seismic rehabilitation and retrofit of existing buildings, seismic risk assessments, construction engineering and building plans review, in addition to seismic risk evaluations for commercial lenders.

Yau brings nearly a decade of experience in seismic and structural engineering and construction management, with a focus on structural design, seismic risk consulting and seismic risk evaluation of existing buildings, as well as construction management for the city and county of San Francisco.

Wang has experience in project coordination and management of structural risk assessments and related assessment and due diligence services. Earlier, she served as a business analyst and patent litigator.

MEMPHIS

Newmark Promotes Cox to Vice Chairman

Kenneth Cox

Kenneth Cox has been promoted to vice chairman at Newmark.

Cox is a member of the firm's Houston-based self-storage capital markets group in Memphis, Tennessee. Throughout his career, Cox has completed more than $6 billion in self-storage transactions for a client list that includes Brookfield Asset Management, CubeSmart, Extra Space Storage, Heitman and Storage Pros.

With more than 25 years of experience in the self-storage sector, Cox previously worked as principal of a publicly traded real estate investment trust and spent six years with several partnerships focused on acquiring, operating and selling self-storage assets. Earlier in his career, Cox worked at Jernigan Property Group and Storage USA. He joined Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in 2013.

SAN FRANCISCO

Swinerton Promotes Nunnally to CAO

Lauren Nunnally

Lauren Nunnally, who was recently elected to serve on the board of California-based national preferred builder Swinerton, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief administrative officer at the construction company.

In her new role, Nunnally will oversee talent acquisition, human resources operations and corporate responsibility efforts for Swinerton.

Nunnally joined Swinerton in 2005 as a project engineer in San Diego, rising to project manager. After taking time off to complete her MBA at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, she rejoined Swinerton full time in 2014 as director of support within its business technology group. In 2017, she pivoted to general manager for craft services and then assumed the role of vice president and chief talent officer in 2019.

NEW YORK CITY

Turner & Townsend Hires US Sustainability Head

Kyle Goehring

Kyle Goehring has joined global construction consulting firm Turner & Townsend as head of sustainability for its U.S. operations.

In his new role, Goehring is responsible for leading a strategic program to expand the firm's sustainability offering across the country.

Goehring joins the firm from True Green Capital in Dallas, where he most recently served as a director and focused on origination. Before that, he was an executive vice president at JLL in Los Angeles, leading the brokerage's clean energy platform and working with its global sustainability leaders. He brings more than 14 years of experience in sustainability and clean energy partnerships in the commercial real estate sector, working on behalf of investors and public organizations.

ORANGE COUNTY

Ware Malcomb Promotes Three Female Leaders

Jinger Tapia

International design firm Ware Malcomb has promoted Jinger Tapia to vice president of design in the firm's Irvine, California, office.

In her expanded role, Tapia will lead architectural design for Ware Malcomb and oversee its branding studio.

Tapia began her architectural career at Ware Malcomb in 1996 and rejoined the firm in 2002. She is a licensed architect and is active in the Urban Land Institute, the National Organization of Minority Architects and Ware Malcomb’s own diversity, equity and inclusion committee.

Maureen Bissonnette, left, and Maria Rodgers

Also in the Irvine office, Ware Malcomb has promoted Maureen Bissonnette to principal of marketing and Maria Rodgers to press and communications manager.

Bissonnette joined Ware Malcomb 1998 as a marketing assistant. As principal, she oversees all marketing-related functions for Ware Malcomb, including strategy, media and public relations, communications, branding and marketing technologies. Over the past 24 years, she has built a team that now includes over 20 marketing, communications and graphic design professionals.

Rodgers joined Ware Malcomb in 2014 as marketing coordinator. In her new role, she will focus on expanding the firm’s media and communications programs and increasing exposure for the firm.

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