JLL Expands Healthcare Practice, CBRE Promotes Top Producer, Kidder Mathews Elevates Executive

Global brokerage JLL is expanding its healthcare tenant representation practice in Florida with the hiring of a broker from the Washington, D.C., market as a managing director.

Lucia F. Hedke, an executive with two decades of experience in tenant representation, joins JLL to bolster its healthcare-focused tenant representation practice. She is based in the firm’s Orlando office.

In her new role, Hedke will continue to serve her clients in greater D.C. while expanding her focus to support JLL’s plans to grow its healthcare business across the Sunshine State, which JLL says has one of the fastest growing populations in the country and is home to several leading healthcare systems and institutions.

“Given Lucia’s decades of diverse experience serving businesses from large corporations to government organizations and non-profits, her hiring represents a key addition to our talented team,” said LaShawn Bates, JLL’s market director for north and central Florida, in a corporate statement announcing the move. “The healthcare sector continues to be a key area of focus for the Florida region and with Lucia’s trajectory in the [D.C., Maryland and Virginia] market, we have a unique opportunity to leverage her expertise and network to continue serving her existing clients, while helping JLL to build its healthcare-focused tenant representation business.”

Hedke brings 20 years of real estate industry experience, serving global medical and healthcare companies as well as professional services firms and international organizations including Alliance for American Manufacturing, the U.N.’s World Food Programme, Medtronic and Smith+Nephew.

Hedke most recently worked as a principal at Cresa, where she spent more than 10 years providing tenant representation services including site selection, space programming efficiency analysis, interior build-outs, purchase negotiations, lease and sublease transactions, and expansions and consolidations. She also served on the firm’s emerging leadership council for several years and was repeatedly named a top producer. Hedke is a member of the Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Association of Greater Washington, D.C., and serves on the board of directors for The Finance and Administration Roundtable.

CBRE has promoted Doug Bakke to vice chairman, the highest title for producers at the company.

In his expanded role, Bakke will continue to provide advisory and transaction services to multimarket and international office occupiers. Over the past five years alone, Bakke and his team have participated in more than 2,175 transactions across 565 global markets totaling 34 million square feet and over $5.8 billion in total consideration.

Bakke has been with CBRE for 36 years. During that time, he has been awarded the William H. McCarthy Award and was included in the Colbert Coldwell Circle, two prestigious national recognitions based on client service, teamwork, integrity and production level, according to the firm. He was also named among the company’s top 200 producers internationally and a top producer in its Denver office.

Bakke currently serves on the board of directors for CBRE’s data center solutions group, is a guiding member of the CBRE national occupier services group and is a member of commercial real estate development association NAIOP.

Kidder Mathews has promoted Stu Ford to executive vice president and managing director of its Seattle headquarters.

In his expanded role, Ford will continue to focus on office tenant advisory throughout the Puget Sound region.

Ford has more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience. Throughout his career, Ford has negotiated over 10 million square feet of office transactions in the Seattle-Bellevue market on behalf of major corporations, technology companies and professional services firms including Swedish Health Services, Isilon Systems, Real Networks, Daptiv, the Hacker Group and AAA Washington.

“Kidder Mathews is in a strong position for ongoing growth in our Seattle market as the West Coast’s premiere and largest privately held CRE firm. I look forward to continuing our momentum and recruiting more top talent,” said Ford in a statement.

Christopher Honn has joined NewPoint Real Estate Capital as a managing director of senior housing originations in its Chicago office.

In his new role, Honn will help expand the firm’s growing senior housing and healthcare platform with an emphasis on agency loan solutions. The company’s growing practice has secured licenses as a Fannie Mae senior housing lender and a Freddie Mac Optigo senior housing lender.

Honn brings more than 35 years of senior housing and healthcare originations and underwriting experience to the post, having built successful production platforms while representing national clients. Honn most recently served as a managing director at Regions Bank, where he helped create the firm’s senior housing platform, and before that, he managed Berkadia’s senior housing and healthcare mortgage banking and underwriting team. Earlier in his career, Honn served as director of Fannie Mae’s senior housing program for 12 years.

Independent commercial real estate services firm BBG appointed senior housing veteran Will Childs as executive vice president with its alternative practice groups. He is based in the firm’s Atlanta office.

In his new role, Childs will help expand BBG’s senior housing platform, which the company says is one of the fastest growing and dynamic commercial real estate sectors in the country.

Childs brings more than 15 years of industry experience, having worked with senior housing lenders, operators, investors and developers on valuations and market studies, feasibility analysis and development consulting services. He most recently served as a partner and executive vice president of senior housing at OHC Advisors, a national real estate valuation and advisory firm.

Northmarq is expanding its debt and equity platform in South Florida with the opening of a new office in Miami, and has hired Jaspaul Kapoor as a senior vice president to lead the charge.

In his new role, Kapoor will execute financing assignments with a focus on multifamily and government agency lending programs. He is joined by Garrett Stasand and David Henney, who join the firm as vice presidents and together will open a debt and equity office in Miami’s Brickell financial center. They will collaborate with Northmarq’s Bob Harrington in Fort Lauderdale on debt and equity financing for commercial and multifamily properties across the region.

Kapoor previously held various capital markets roles with CBRE, Newmark and opportunistic debt investment fund manager Arch Bay Capital. Before that, he held a business development role at S&P Global. Throughout his career, Kapoor has been involved in the sale, purchase or financing of real estate assets valued at more than $6 billion.

Stasand spent over five years at CBRE’s capital markets division in Phoenix, and Henney financed multifamily projects at CBRE after spending years brokering the sale of redevelopment sites and apartment buildings in Los Angeles.

JLL Capital Markets hired Greer Oliver as a senior director in Phoenix.

Over the past five years, Oliver has advised more than 130 industrial sales transactions totaling more than 63 million square feet and approximately $6.9 billion in value.

In her new role, Oliver will lead JLL’s institutional industrial investment sales efforts throughout the greater Phoenix metropolitan area with support from Ben Geelan and Mark Detmer.

Oliver is joined in the office by Connor Nebeker-Hay, who joins JLL as an associate.

Savills hired Christopher Scala as a senior director in New York.

In his new role, Scala will continue the firm’s expansion of its project management platform. Savills has been growing the leadership team nationwide since its acquisition of Macro Consultants in March 2020.

Scala brings more than 30 years of construction management and project leadership experience, having served as mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and infrastructure director on dozens of projects throughout the tri-state area, including more than $1 billion in commercial real estate construction and $1.2 billion of healthcare facilities and research laboratories.

Mike Cerny has joined Berkadia as vice president and lead underwriter with its medical and life science platform.

In his new role, Cerny will focus on underwriting loans and financing deals in the healthcare real estate sector, working alongside Sabrina Solomiany, senior managing director and head of medical and life science at Berkadia.

Cerny joins Berkadia from the special real estate finance group at Wells Fargo, where he served as director and lead underwriter for medical offices and life sciences buildings. During his time there, Cerny was part of a team that closed $2 billion in healthcare real estate loan commitments. Cerny previously held senior-level underwriting and valuation roles at Capital One and GE Capital.