Colliers has expanded its capital markets group in the U.S. West by adding Grant Lammersen as a vice chair, typically the highest position a deal-maker can attain at a brokerage firm. He left Newmark after more than seven years for the new job at Colliers, where he'll work out of its Salt Lake City office. While at Newmark, Lammerson served as a vice chairman and co-head of its capital markets group in San Francisco. In his new position at Colliers, Lammersen will work with Sean Fulp in California and collaborate with Brandon Fugal in Utah, the firm said.

Lammersen brings 24 years of industry experience during which he focused on marketing and selling institutional real estate. He was involved in some 400 transactions with an aggregate total value of more than $22 billion. "His extensive expertise and deep industry relationship make him an invaluable addition to our team as we deliver enhanced service to our clients across the West," David Josker, president of the U.S. Western region at Colliers, said in a statement.

Foundry Commercial has added several brokers to its Atlanta operation with its purchase of Southsource, a boutique firm founded in 2020 by former WeWork executive Lawrence "LG" Gellerstedt. As part of the deal Gellerstedt, a fourth-generation Atlanta resident whose father Larry Gellerstedt was a longtime CEO of Cousins Properties, steps into the role of Atlanta market leader at Foundry. Partner Chris Hurd, who had served in that position since Foundry began building its Atlanta operation in 2016, has shifted to leader of the firm's Atlanta investment advisory practice.

Atlanta is an important market for Foundry, CEO Paul Ellis. “LG and the team bring a fresh perspective, and together we believe that we will build something very unique in the Atlanta marketplace," Ellis said in a statement. With the addition of seven brokers from Southsource, Foundry now has 15 in Atlanta.

Gellerstedt said in a LinkedIn post that "I've learned so much from my first time as a founder / entrepreneur. There are many lessons I'd love to share." He mentioned several people, including broker Scott DeMyer and Grace Thompson, who joined Foundry after more than a decade at Atlanta Property Group. And Gellerstedt gave a "big shout out to my friend and now brother in arms Jason Holwerda for showing me that you can keep building something special even on a larger scale." Holwerda is a Nashville, Tennessee-based Foundry partner and regional market leader. “We’ve had a relationship with LG and the Southsource team for years, and the cultural alignment was evident from the very start,” he said in a statement.

Mohr Partners has hired construction management executive Johnathan Brown as managing director of its project and development services group. A 22-year industry veteran based in Mohr's Dallas headquarters, Brown will oversee ground-up development and tenant improvement projects for Mohr's clients that occupy industrial, office, retail and healthcare real estate.

"This is a critical time when corporate and healthcare clients are looking to transform their workplaces in order to attract their employees back to the office," Brown said in a statement. Brown will leverage his experience to "drive innovative and creative workplace solutions for our occupier clients who are increasingly looking to outsource their capital improvement projects," Mohr Chairman and CEO Robert Shibuya said in a statement.

New York law firm Adler & Stachenfeld has formed a new practice centered on impact investing that is led by partners Danielle Ash and YuhTyng "Tyng" Patka. The new practice will work with developers, investors, and not-for-profit organizations on investments and projects guided by their environmental, social and governance, or ESG, initiatives.

“As ESG investing has become more common, demand for expert guidance on how to structure commercial real estate partnerships, joint-ventures, and other transactions to ensure both social good and benefit to all parties has become paramount,” Adler & Stachenfeld managing partner Terri Adler said in a statement. Successful impact-focused real estate deals require more than business acumen and knowledge of the priorities and cultures of each client, Patka said. "Sometimes, a creative legal solution is the difference between an impact initiative being viable or not," she said in a statement.

SRS Real Estate Partners is expanding in Florida with its purchase of Meridian Retail Group, a Tampa brokerage founded by John Fahey and Tyler McRae. As part of the deal, Fahey and McRae joined SRS as senior vice presidents, and they'll lead the Tampa market with SRS Executive Vice President John Artope. Meridian specializes in advising retail, restaurant and entertainment clients. “After several years of working collaboratively with SRS, it was apparent that we had a shared ideology, culture, and passion for retail real estate,” Fahey said in a statement. “Due to the high demand in our market, we felt the timing was right for Meridian to join forces with SRS, the largest retail-focused firm in the country."

Chris Maguire, SRS chairman and CEO, pointed to "the tremendous growth and activity in the Tampa market" as a reason for making the deal. “SRS continues to invest in our business and expand throughout the country as we see accretive opportunities,” he said in a statement. SRS said Meridian's Grant Burt, Caroline Connelly and Jacob Rasnick also will join the firm and focus on tenant representation and leasing for retail clients.

Burns Scalo Real Estate has hired Brian Walker, a 30-year veteran of real estate, finance and accounting, as its new president. The Pittsburgh-based real estate firm said James Scalo will retain the CEO position and oversee BSRE's growth plans and pursuit of creating a national presence.

The firm said Walker's profile in the industry would help as BSRE positions itself "for its more aggressive growth plans." Walker is chair-elect of the corporate board of NAIOP, the commercial real estate development association. He is set to take over as chair of the influential industry association in January. The past five months have been busy for BSRE, which was founded in 1956. The company realigned its brokerage operation to form a new advisory team and launched six new construction contracts outside of its owned portfolio.

Brokerage giant CBRE has expanded its advisory and transaction services team in Birmingham, Alabama, with the addition of veteran broker Taylor Glaze. Glaze, who has more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience, joined CBRE from NAI Chase Commercial. He's a vice president at CBRE.

In his new role, Glaze will report to Atlanta-based senior managing director David Lanier and focus on tenant representation in medical, office and industrial property. “His addition to our platform further demonstrates our strategy to become the market leader for real estate services in the state by bringing our total head count to 25," Lanier said in a statement. For his part, Glaze said he plans to leverage CBRE's position as the world's largest brokerage firm by revenue "to take my business to the next level."