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Michael is a Partner at Condor Partners, LLC. He is responsible for overseeing all of the firm’s Real Estate development activity. Prior to joining Condor, Michael was a Development Partner at Centrum Partners LLC in Chicago. He was responsible for sourcing and developing “out of the box” and institutional level projects for Centrum. He developed over $200 million of real estate for the firm, including Hospitality, Industrial, Flex Office, and Residential. Prior to joining Centrum in early 2007, Michael founded and ran his family real estate development company in New York from 2000-2007. McLean Development, LLC focused on suburban master planned communities entitling over 2,000 residential units and 500,000sf of commercial space on Long Island and Rochester, NY. From 1998-2000 Michael and his brother Sean McLean founded and ran one of the first firms focused on Hospitality in Healthcare, helping hospitals convert vacant space to hotel and special service wards. Michael holds a Master’s of Science from New York University with a focus on International Development and Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Princeton University.

Scott Goldman is Managing Principal and Co-Founder of Revision Group, LLC, a Chicago-based private investment firm specializing in the development and acquisition of infill commercial real estate. The firm was formed in 2011 and currently owns a portfolio of approximately $50MM of commercial real estate with several additional projects under development. Prior to forming Revision, Scott spent 6+ years with Pine Tree Commercial Realty, a Northbrook-based shopping center development firm, where he headed the firm’s Acquisition platform that was responsible for the acquisition of $250MM of commercial real estate during Goldman’s tenure and had responsibilities overseeing investor relations, asset management, as well as debt and equity finance.

Prior to joining Avison Young, Mr. Waites was the Senior Managing Director and Midwest Regional Lead of Investor Services with Cushman & Wakefield. Mr. Waites grew property management and agency leasing from 4.5 million square feet to over 45 million square feet of office, industrial and retail properties for key institutional investors and owners. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Waites served as Chief Operating Officer of John Buck International where he helped establish a property and asset management division based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Mr. Waites built a property management and consulting portfolio of approximately 10 million square feet of office, retail, mixed use and university facilities. Prior to his role with John Buck, he held an Executive Vice President, Asset Management position with Riverway formerly, Prime Group Realty Trust, a self-managed and administered publicly traded REIT, where he managed approximately 8 million square feet of class A and B Chicago and Suburban office buildings, structured in excess of 5 million square feet of leasing and participated in the disposition of approximately 4 million square feet of office assets as well as the sale of the REIT’s controlling ownership to the Lightstone Group. Mr. Waites also acted as asset manager for approximately 38 facilities totaling approximately 4 million square feet of industrial and mixed use properties acquired from Sealy in the South, South East and Puerto Rico on behalf of Prime Group Realty Trust’s parent, The Lightstone Group

Paul Tsakiris founded First Western Properties, Inc. in 1999 and is a leading figure in Chicago’s real estate community. Mr. Tsakiris has appeared as an expert guest on Stock Market Observer, the Chicago Real Estate Council and is frequently quoted in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, as well as Crain's Chicago Business. He has also written articles published in Chicago Realtor Magazine. His extensive real estate background includes: • CEO of First Western Properties, a commercial real estate firm based in Chicago and Miami. • CEO of Paradise Construction, a European luxury home developer • Award Winning Brokerage Results; Mr. Tsakiris has earned numerous sales awards including: CoStar Power Broker, Top Multi-family Sales, Top Investment Sales, Top Retail Leasing by the Chicago Association of Realtors. He has also been recognized in the Wall Street Journal • Development of Multifamily, Retail and Medical facilities both locally and abroad • Acquisition and Turn Around of under-performing retail and medical properties • Acquisition and Rehab of over 2,500 decimated apartment units, resulting in 6 Good Neighbor Awards; an award given to projects that have the greatest positive impact on a community • Receivership and REO Advisory to a wide range of debt investors from local community banks to large institutional clients Prior to founding First Western Properties, Mr. Tsakiris worked as a Sales Associate with Hallmark and Johnson. Mr. Tsakiris holds a Master’s degree from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Business (U.S. News #1 ranked international business school). He also holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and International Business. He is fluent In Greek and highly proficient in Spanish. Mr. Tsakiris belongs to a number of real estate and community organizations including: Board member of Chicago’s Sister Cities-Athens Committee, Commercial Forum, ICSC, Chicago Real Estate Council, Commercial Roundtable, Chicago Association of Realtors and the Chicago Restaurant Brokers Association.

Since 1988, Paul Fishbein has established a distinguished track record in commercial real estate by creating innovative solutions resulting in significant savings for his clients and returns for his investors. He has experienced success as both a commercial real estate broker and developer with over $750 million in transactions and developments to his credit. Paul is a Founding Partner of Merit Partners, a Chicago based firm focused on the re-development of the 1.5 million square foot former Marshall Field campus at 4000 West Diversey. Prior to Merit, Paul spent 16 years as a partner with Centrum Properties and Amerimar Enterprises where he was a partner in charge of the 1.6 million square foot Montgomery Wards campus at 600 West Chicago and 600,000 square foot Lafayette Corp. Center in Boston.

Lindsey Senn is a Vice President at Fifield Companies. Her primary responsibilities include underwriting multifamily and office development projects, sourcing debt and equity financing, and asset management. Prior to joining Fifield Companies, Lindsey was a Project Manager and Financial Analyst for Ridge Property Trust. In that role, she underwrote industrial acquisitions and developments and was involved in the asset management of a 9 million square foot portfolio. She was also on a team that completed the disposition of $300 million of industrial assets. Lindsey graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Real Estate & Urban Land Economics and Legal Studies. She is a member of the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association and YREP.

As First Vice President, Mike is a member of our Urban Advisory Group nationally and leads the Solutions Platform. With more than 20 years of professional experience in multi-million dollar development ventures, Mike offers CBRE clients single point responsibility for advisory services on urban real estate. As a licensed real estate broker and architect, with an MBA in Urban Economics and Real Estate, Mike’s expertise crosses all the product types necessary for complex mixed-use and land development advisory.

Steve Lipe has been developing real estate in Chicago since 1994. In the mid- 1990’s he helped found Chicago Urban Properties, one of Chicago’s largest loft and condominium developers in the latter part of the 1990’s. It developed over 600 lofts, condominiums and townhouses in a four-year span. Projects included: Plaza 32 at 3232 N. Halsted, Erie Center Lofts and Tower at 375 and 425 W. Erie, St. Paul Lofts 2333 W. St Paul St., 1515 Michigan Avenue and 625 W Jackson. After Chicago Urban Lipe joined Centrum Properties as a partner in 1998. Centrum completed a wide variety of large-scale commercial and residential projects in Chicago and other Midwestern cities during Lipe’s tenure. The projects include two notable Chicago properties: 1) the planning and redevelopment of the Montgomery Ward’s headquarters campus in River North into 2,500 dwellings units and over two million square feet of commercial space and, 2) the construction of the mixed-use North Avenue Collection at North Avenue and Sheffield Street in Lincoln Park. Other projects include Churchill Row Lofts and Townhomes in Bucktown and Bradley Place single family homes in Roscoe Village. Lipe Property Company was founded in 2001. This boutique real estate development firm has allowed Lipe to combine the attention to quality architectural design evident in his earlier work with the personal touch and community sensitivity only available with a smaller, more narrowly focused company. Lipe Property focuses primarily on mid-sized urban multifamily and retail development with a heavy concentration in the neighborhoods of Pilsen, Wicker Park and Bucktown. Notable projects include Chantico Lofts at 1061 W 16 th Street in Pilsen and retail/mixed use developments at 1480-48, 1501-1505 and 1532 N Milwaukee and 1510 and 1728 W Division Street in Wicker Park. Mr. Lipe lives in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood where he is active in the community. Mr. Lipe has been involved with the Bucktown Community Organization since 1994, is a past President and Chairman of the Zoning & Planning Committee.  He is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising and holds Master’s degree in Regional Planning from the School of Design and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.