Real Estate's Top Dogs: Part 3

We're really feeling the puppy love with all these pooch pics coming in. (We're also feeling a bit itchy, did one of you send us pictures of fleas, too?) Here are some more of commercial real estate's adorable, four-legged best friends:

Meet Mr. Briggs, an affable English Bulldog who belongs to Newmark Grubb Knight Frank director John Gaines. Mr. Briggs is running for mayor of John's sidewalk, he says. He greets everyone who walks by and stops strollers in their tracks to give babies kisses. He's even the reason John's now fiancée agreed to go on a second date with him. John's had a flurry of weddings this summer, including planning his own. Still, he's doing his best to get into the office despite the beautiful weather. His deal highlight this year: Closing the 44k SF Rocket Fuel lease at 350 N Orleans/River North Point.

We present the many faces of rapidly growing Frankie, the 15-week-old English Mastiff of Essex Realty Group principal Jim Darrow (up in Michigan with the family this week). They brought her home at eight weeks and 13 pounds and now she's up to 42 pounds. Her father was 200 pounds and her mother was 140 pounds, so she's going to be a big girl, Jim says. While a new puppy is a lot of work, everyone in the Darrow house is smitten. At the office, Jim's team has put nearly $14M worth of apartment buildings under contract for clients this month and listed nearly $10M of new inventory last week alone (can you tell the market is on fire?).

Say hello to two-year-old Calvin, a Boxer who belongs to Bradford Allen associate Grace Casella. He loves boating on Lake Michigan, as you can see, above. Grace just got engaged this past month, so Calvin’s trying to accept that there might be a more important man in her life. At the office, Grace and her partner, Steve Fitzgerald, just completed their first new lease at 363 W Erie. The River North loft office building is undergoing a major redevelopment and has over 57k SF of contiguous space available, she says.

Here are then and now shots of Alaskan Malamute Yukon, the pride and joy of MRSA Chicago Architects and Planners' Vicki Bartling. Now full-grown and a certified therapy dog, Yukon goes on visits to local hospitals and helps out at functions around the Chicago area, Vicki says. He likes to go on patrol with his sister and best friend, Clarice. At the office, Vicki says MRSA is celebrating a year in its new office next to the Soho House, and the firm was recently awarded the Eckhardt Research Center Lab build-outs at UChicago. Vicki's looking forward to a canoe camping trip in Wisconsin this weekend.

This is three-month-old Marcel, Parr Insurance Brokerage's apprentice and intellectual Swiss Mountain puppy. Parr's Tom Neis says Marcel will be able to fill your dog's business background questions on building and apartment insurance when that information is needed as a risk mitigation technique. (Some dogs can mitigate risk better than others. They're the ones that go outside, not in your shoe.)