Keeping Up with Tenant Improvements

Jim is the National Head of Retail Investments and Retail Capital Markets for Lincoln Property Company, and co-founder of the retail investment firm, Paragon Commercial Group, Lincoln’s west coast retail investment partner. Jim began his career as a real estate and finance attorney with Latham & Watkins LLP where he represented developers, equity investors and lenders in capital structuring, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and entitlements throughout the United States. Jim co-founded Paragon in 2009 to capitalize on retail real estate investment opportunities resulting from the GFC market dislocation. Since that time, Jim has been honored by the Urban Land Institute as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” land use and real estate professionals in the United States, by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the top 5 retail real estate professionals in Los Angeles, and twice recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a Commercial Real Estate Visionary. Jim currently serves in various industry leadership capacities including the Executive Committee of the Southern Methodist University Folsom Institute for Real Estate, Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley, Executive Committee Board of the USC Gould School of Law Real Estate Law and Business Forum, immediate past Chairman of the Urban Land Institute's Small Scale Development Council, and lecturer at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the UC Berkeley Masters of Real Estate programs. Jim’s civic involvements include his current service as a Planning Commissioner for the City of Manhattan Beach, California, as well as a founding donor and advisor to the SMU Real Estate Impact Fund, a student-driven investment vehicle focused on impact investing in underserved communities.

As EVP of Property Management, Kayce Hawk manages operations, strategic planning, impact initiatives, and business development of Rising’s property management assignments and teams. Kayce was an integral part of Rising’s reposition and sale of Rising's signature project PacMutual. Her expertise in project management combined with a prior career in accounting lent itself well to streamlining the multiple repositioning projects that took place at PacMutual. Prior to joining Rising Realty Partners in 2014, Kayce managed 4.6 million sq. ft. of Class A industrial buildings for institutional owners in Seattle. In 2011, Kayce completed her Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation through IREM. Kayce also earned a bachelor’s in communication from Seattle Pacific University. Outside of the office, Kayce's passion has been horsemanship since the age of five. It's an art she plans to craft for the rest of her life. From 2008 to 2013 she worked as a part time riding instructor for children on the weekends. Since her move to Los Angeles, Kayce purchased a young horse and spends her weekends at the barn riding through Vasquez Rocks. She also enjoys hiking, camping, eating and cooking great food, and kickboxing.

Ireland’s loss was Southern California’s gain. The co-founder of our company is the garrulous Irishman John Parker. On the surface, he is an easy-going gentleman. On the job, he is all business. John Parker co-founded Parker Brown, Inc. in 1994 with Scott Brown. The two set the “get the job done” tone for the company’s construction operations and corporate management. Leaving Ireland for the U.S. in 1989, John owned and operated John Parker Building Ltd., a residential remodeling firm. After relocating his family to Los Angeles, John was the construction manager at a Los Angeles area commercial construction company until the inception of Parker Brown, Inc. in 1994. John and Scott are personally involved in every project that Parker Brown, Inc. is awarded. They provide oversight from the job site or from the corporate office, and, in a lot of cases, from both. John is deeply involved in the communities he serves. He is the past president of the Canoga Park/West Hills Chamber of Commerce, former president of the Canoga Park Improvement Association, a past member of the Oversight Committee on the Bond Program of Pierce College, and executive vice president of the Women’s Odyssey, a residential drug and alcohol recovery program. Currently, he is a commissioner serving on the Los Angeles County Building Rehabilitation & Appeals Board, and is presently the president of the United Chamber of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley.

Andy Lantz is an Architect and visionary leader directing groundbreaking design solutions as Creative Director at RIOS. His depth of experience is all-embracing of multidisciplinary design as he influences teams across the firm with his perspectives and point of view for dynamic experiences through design. For over a decade, Andy’s work has served an impressive roster of all types of clients and projects – from creating competition-winning places that enhance the public realm along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood and along the banks of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, to notable music institutions and content production facilities in Los Angeles, to leading the industry in envisioning the future of workplace with ready-to-market products and forward-thinking design approaches that reframe potential in workplace design. Andy reimagines creative office environments informed by science, culture, and the importance of the human experience informed by location and vibe. Notably, he’s led the design of the Austin-based headquarters at Vrbo that explores a data-driven process to manifest thoughtful programming and experiential design. Additionally, he’s produced a mission-driven experience that blends aesthetics and wellness at the GoodRx Headquarters in Santa Monica. Andy has also worked to create a flexible and dynamic workplace laboratory at the firm’s own HQ in Los Angeles as a means to address the swift change in the market informed by the experiences of 2020 that goes beyond the pandemic and towards the revolution of work-from-anywhere thinking. From industry panels to national broadcast segments, Andy’s thought-leadership continues to impact and engage. Andy holds his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University.

Brittany Winn joined Cushman & Wakefield’s Downtown Los Angeles office in 2019 as a director where she focuses on agency leasing, working alongside executive managing director Mike Condon, Jr. Prior to C&W, Ms. Winn served as an associate director at Newmark Knight Frank where she specialized in office tenant representation for a wide range of well-known entertainment and professional service firms. Ms. Winn’s real estate advisory services provide comprehensive strategies that cover the planning and negotiation of various renewals, restructures, relocations, consolidations, dispositions and purchases. Ms. Winn received her Bachelor of Arts degree in entrepreneurial management from California State University, San Bernardino.

Christopher joined the team in the fall of 2010 as a $10-an-hour intern and worked his way up to Senior Project Manager and now is our Chief Operating Officer. Chris manages roughly $21 million per year in tenant improvements and ground up projects. He has successfully completed everything from a 6-story parking structure to large scale tenant improvements.