Cushman & Wakefield's Lincoln CentreTakes Top TOBY

Saturday night, Lincoln Centre was named Office Building of the Year (over 1M SF) in BOMA Dallas’ annual TOBY Awards event. We were on the spot to get you the latest on who won what. Read on.

Here’s Lincoln Centre’s handlers: Cushman & Wakefield of Texas GM Jack Gardner, administrative assistant Ashley Watson, chief engineer Scott Grissom and assistant property manager Paige Monacelli. Winning a TOBY is about more than just the appearance or architecture of a building, BOMA executive director Teresa Foster tells us. It’s all about excellence in property management. Criteria to earn the honor is fierce. Among the areas of judging are all aspects of management from leasing, engineering, janitorial, security and concierge services. According to the TOBY judges, Lincoln Centre earned an A-plus across the board.

BOMA Dallas president Angelique Wade of Transwestern (here, speaking at the event). The remaining TOBY winners include 8100 Lomo Alto (CBRE) for Under 100k SF; The Addison (Peloton Commercial Real Estate) for 100k SF to 249,999 SF; 17Seventeen McKinney (Granite Properties) for 250k SF to 499,999 SF; Trinity Towers (Peloton) for 500k SF to 1M SF; Hunt Corporate Headquarters (Hunt Office Management) for Corporate Headquarters; Energy Plaza (Transwestern) for Earth Award; Freeport X (Duke Realty) for Industrial Office Building; Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas (Duke) for Medical Office Building; Preston Commons (CBRE) for Renovated Building; and Tollway Plaza (CBRE) for Suburban Office Park Mid-Rise. The winners from this event will represent BOMA Dallas at the Southwest Region Conference TOBY Awards Dinner on April 11 in Tulsa, where they will compete against buildings from Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin as well as buildings in Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas. Winners from Southwest Region will then move to the international competition in Los Angeles in June. A little trivia about Angelique: she won a BOMA International TOBY award in 1996 in the Under 100k SF category.

BOMA Dallas’ Outstanding Member of the Year was awarded to Peloton Commercial Real Estate’s Mark Wilshire (who also won Property Manager of the Year). Here’s Mark getting the award from the BOMA Dallas president along with the President's Award winners Fujitec Americas’ Steve Broom and ABM’s Richey Houdek. Mark is described as a loyal and highly respected member of the BOMA network, serving at all levels--local, state, regional and international. The BOMA Dallas Lone Star Awards honor those in the industry who exemplify the highest levels of professionalism. Among the winners: Allied Member of the Year is Executive Security Systems’ Andrea Saccomanno; Committee Member of the Year for the TOBY Committee is Hunt Office Management’s Scott Schutz; Committee Chair of the Year for the TOBY Committee is CBRE’s Cathy Kuebler; Senior/Portfolio Manager of the Year is Transwestern’s David Bryant; Assistant Property Manager of the Year is Piedmont Office Realty Trust’s Kelli Garca; Administrative Assistant of the Year is Granite’s Lesia Aguilar; Chief Engineer of the Year is Lincoln Property Co’s Rick Matvey; Assistant Chief Engineer of the Year is CBRE’s William Doyle Ray; Lead Engineer of the Year is Peloton’s Bill Stamps; and Building Engineer of the Year is Hines’ Jerry Garcia.