Cushman & Wakefield expands San Francisco team; CBRE adds in Idaho; Trinity grows retail group

Cushman & Wakefield added Tyler Epting as a managing director and Kris Hagar as a senior director in its Walnut Creek, California, office as the commercial property services firm expands services in San Francisco’s East Bay region. The company said the new regional leaders will handle sales and leasing transactions across several Northern California counties, including Contra Costa, Solano and Napa. The pair will focus on logistics, manufacturing and other types of industrial properties.

Epting and Hagar both joined Cushman from Newmark. Epting’s eight-year brokerage career includes completing 250 transactions involving a total of more than 2 million square feet of space. He serves on the infrastructure committee of the Food Bank of Contra Costa.

Hagar’s prior work includes mortgage lending, property management and construction, serving national and regional landlords and tenants. He is an associate member of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors.

CBRE has hired Mark Schlag as a vice president in its Boise, Idaho, office, as the real estate services company looks to expand its retail services in the state. The company said Schlag will specialize in retail landlord and tenant representation, investment sales, development services and site disposition for large corporate portfolios.

Schlag has nearly 30 years of experience in sales, leasing and consulting for some of Boise’s most high-profile retail properties, representing corporate clients in their expansions in southern Idaho. He has earned a Certified Commercial Investment Member designation.

CBRE is expanding in Idaho to leverage growing retail demand in the Intermountain West region, where shop occupancy and new developments are on the rise, according to John Miller, the firm's executive managing director for the Pacific Northwest.

Cheyenne Putnam joined Trinity Partners as a retail broker in the company’s Greenville, South Carolina office, as the company broadens its services across the Southeast. Putnam’s eight years of commercial real estate experience includes work as a property manager and the execution of sale and lease transactions exceeding $100 million, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based firm said.

Putnam has served in leadership roles with the American Heart Association in Greenville and is chair of the association’s regional Go Red for Women campaign.

Project Management Advisors, also known as PMA, has added Brad Moeller to its team as a vice president. In his new role, Moeller will spearhead student housing development and related project services, the Chicago-based firm said. Moeller’s two-decade career in development and construction includes work on student housing, multifamily and mixed-use projects. He previously led student housing operations at CA Ventures, delivering more than 80 properties totaling more than $4 billion in value across more than 50 university markets.

Moeller most recently served as executive vice president of development and construction at Akara Partners, overseeing a development pipeline exceeding $400 million and expanding the firm’s work in student housing. He also is a licensed architect. 

TRIP Property Group, also known as Transportation Related Industrial Properties, hired Sean Gildea as vice president of its Eastern region.

Gildea will oversee property acquisitions in the region while also leading the planned opening of the firm’s new office in New York City, as the company looks to grow its East Coast portfolio, the investment firm said.

Based in New York, TRIP said it is "focused on acquiring, and operating niche transportation and outdoor storage industrial real estate in major US markets."