Stream Realty Partners has recruited the office leasing team of Charley Leavitt, Barry Fabyan, Grant Keyes and Holden Brayboy from JLL in Charlotte, North Carolina, as Stream expands its operation in the Carolinas. Leavitt and Fabyan joined Stream, a fast-growing national brokerage as co-managing directors. They will work closely with executive managing director and partner Daniel Farrar to expand the firm’s presence and hire and cultivate talent in Stream’s head Charlotte office that services North Carolina and South Carolina. Keyes joined Stream as an executive vice president and Brayboy is a senior associate. They'll be responsible for sourcing and serving clients across several brokerage service lines, with a focus on landlord representation.

Leavitt, who worked at JLL for more than 13 years, and Fabyan, who joined him at JLL in 2015, have leased several high-profile office properties in Charlotte, including Ally Charlotte Center in Uptown when Crescent Communities owned it. Keyes spent two years with the team at JLL and began his real estate career at Cushman & Wakefield before that. Before working for JLL, Brayboy worked for four years at CBRE and as a researcher at CoStar Group, the publisher of CoStar News. Based in Dallas, Stream opened its Carolinas office a decade ago. The office provides leasing, property management, development and investment management and marketing for a portfolio of nearly 4.3 million square feet of office and industrial properties.

Franklin Street's capital markets group has formed a national team to focus on the emerging build-to-rent sector in single-family rentals. The team is made up of Nate Weyer, managing director of capital advisory; Zach Ames, managing director of investment sales; Tom Kersting, managing director of site-land acquisitions; and Michael Shadeed, managing director of insurance. Weyer is based in Atlanta. The other three work in Tampa, Florida, home to Franklin Street's headquarters. The firm said the quartet will focus on the development-to-sale cycle of single-family rentals including land acquisition, debt and equity financing, insurance placement and the disposition of properties.

Michael Graves Architecture, a design firm founded in 1964 by the late Michael Graves, appointed Julie Yurasek to international director of interior design to help drive growth across the globe. It marks her return to the architecture firm where she previously served as senior interior designer and director. In her new role Yurasek will apply her experience in the global hospitality industry to serve as a liaison to project architects. To stay up to date on the latest developments in interior design, she monitors new projects in the hospitality and residential sectors, particularly when it comes to materials used, the company said.

"Yurasek’s vision for the future of Michael Graves’ hospitality portfolio is focused on enlightening guests, and establishing a sense of place by immersing each individual in the surrounding culture," Michael Graves Architecture said in a statement. The firm said Yurasek considers her work on the St. Regis Cairo at Nile Corniche in Egypt as one of her greatest career accomplishments. The hotel received four awards at the International Property Awards for 2021-2022, including an award for Best International Hotel Interior. She also worked on the 51 Degrees Spa Residences in Switzerland that earned recognition six times at the 2011 International Property Awards.

Colliers has expanded its retail and healthcare teams in Philadelphia with the addition of Andrew Weinstein and Charlie Rogers. Weinstein joined the brokerage as an associate in Colliers' retail division, where he will work closely with teammates Larry Steinberg and Michael Barmash. Weinstein previously worked as an assistant construction manager at Toll Bros., according to his LinkedIn profile. Rogers, who joined Colliers after spending seven years in strategy and operations, is part of the brokerage's healthcare services team. “As we continue to navigate the dynamic market, deepening our bench presents new opportunities," Doug Sayer, president and CEO of Colliers in Philadelphia, said in a LinkedIn post. "While the reaction is often to contract at times of economic downturn, we choose to elevate service — not reduce," he said in a statement.

JPMorgan Chase said company veteran Melissa Pillars has joined the bank's new market tax credit originations team as a senior banker covering the Central region. The bank said Pillars "is passionate about community development, and this new role will allow her to further follow that passion through NMTC investment." Based in Chicago, she previously served in Chase's business banking group, where she was responsible for a team of bankers focused on governments, municipalities, school districts, and nonprofit entities in the Midwest. During her nearly 19 years at JPMorgan Chase, where she started as a part time teller. Pillars has held various roles including personal banker and business banking area manager supporting small business owners. Born and raised in Chicago, Pillars has chaired the bank's business resource groups Adelante and Women on the Move.

Womble Bond Dickinson has hired Scott Mayer, a licensed property broker who served several years as the chief real estate officer of Orange County, California. He joined the law firm's real estate practice group in Los Angeles. Mayer has more than 30 years of experience as a commercial real estate attorney and executive. At Womble, he focuses on transactions and litigation involving property acquisitions, dispositions, commercial lease negotiations, land development, and other areas of real estate law. In a statement, Kristin Walker-Probst, managing partner of Womble's offices in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, said the addition of Mayer will benefit the firm as "we continue to expand the breadth and depth of our capabilities in Southern California."

Before returning to the legal field, Mayer served as chief operating officer of a private family office in Beverly Hills that had about $1 billion in commercial real estate assets under management. He was Orange County's real estate chief from 2013-2018.