The former head of Cousins Properties’ office in Charlotte, North Carolina, has rejoined local brokerage Foundry Commercial and plans to refine his professional focus on industrial property.
Foundry tapped Mark Holoman as partner and managing director for development and investments, the second stint at Foundry for the Charlotte native.
Holoman was a managing director for Thalhimer, a Cushman & Wakefield affiliate, in 2015 when Foundry acquired that brokerage’s offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina. Holoman joined Cousins Properties a year later and was that firm's Charlotte market leader until the Foundry hiring.
Holoman is set to manage Foundry’s industrial development pipeline, including the expansion of that practice throughout North Carolina and South Carolina, working with Foundry managing director Bill Simerville.
“New industrial product has struggled to keep pace with tenant demand,” John Ball, Foundry market leader in Charlotte, said in a statement. “Mark’s return to Foundry to augment and enhance our industrial platform comes at the perfect time.”
One of Foundry’s largest industrial listings is Overlook 85, a proposed industrial warehouse in Kannapolis, North Carolina, near Charlotte. Construction is projected to start next summer.
Holoman will be based in Foundry’s new office at The Line. The property, developed by CBRE Investment Management and Portman Holdings, opened last year in Charlotte’s South End market, where several mixed-use projects are in the works.
Holoman has numerous connections to his hometown. He earned a doctorate in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He previously worked for Charlotte-based Bank of America.
He's also on the board of Charlotte City Center Partners, a nonprofit economic development and urban planning organization.
Foundry is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and has offices in Charlotte, Atlanta and eight other cities nationwide.