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Bridge Office Fund Manager LLC (“Bridge Office”) targets value-add commercial office assets in US prime suburban submarkets. Steady job growth, lack of new supply and aging existing inventory have created opportunities to acquire quality office assets at significant discounts to replacement costs. Building on Bridge’s deep industry expertise and multi-cycle track record as a seasoned owner/operator, Bridge Office offers specialized opportunities in acquiring well-located, high-quality office assets with outstanding risk/reward metrics.
Bridge Office targets select US markets that are projected to materially outperform national averages.
Prime suburban submarkets where Bridge operates exhibit substantially higher growth rates and absorption, yet lag in new construction, placing Bridge in a differentiated position to be able to capitalize on this market opportunity. Targeting work-live-play hubs, Bridge Office creates desirable working spaces in areas where people want to be.
One of our goals is to activate spaces within our assets. Our investment approach combines a disciplined asset selection process with a focus on operationally-oriented, value-added improvements that increase tenant satisfaction and solve vacancy issues. Typical incremental capital investments include creating common area breakout rooms, conference centers, fitness facilities, and other amenities in high demand by today’s tenants. Our extensive “boots-on-the-ground” operating network and closeness to our assets allows us to address local tenant needs on a comprehensive basis and to transform ordinary office properties into state of the art, modern, appealing workspaces that command premium market rents and high occupancies.
Jeff Shaw is a Partner at Bridge and the Chief Executive Officer of Bridge Commercial Real Estate (BCRE). Mr. Shaw has direct experience in commercial office real estate brokerage, leasing, and direct operational oversight in executive and leadership positions beginning in 1994. He provides office leasing demand analysis and marketing strategies while leading the firm’s property management and leasing operations. Prior to joining Bridge, Shaw served as CEO and co-founder of Fairlead Commercial Real Estate from 2012 to 2016 and President of Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate from 2004 to 2012. He has held senior leasing positions with brokerage companies Insignia/ESG (CBRE) from 1998 to 2003, Compass Management & Leasing (JLL) from 1997 to 1998, and Cushman & Wakefield from 1994 to 1997, where he was responsible for direct leasing and oversaw over 16 million square feet of many of the Southeast’s largest urban and suburban office buildings. Shaw has provided asset leasing advisory for Northwestern Mutual, Lend Lease Investments, America’s Capital Partners, Equitable Real Estate, LNR Partners, RREEF, Selig Enterprises, General Electric, and others. He works closely with an extensive national network of tenants, brokers, equity clients, and leasing teams to source opportunity and drive portfolio value. Mr. Shaw attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.
Mr. Ward is a Partner at Bridge and serves as Chief Investment Officer Bridge Office Fund Manager LLC. and is a Principal at Bridge Commercial Real Estate, LLC. During his career, he has been involved in over $1.1 billion in commercial acquisitions, has asset managed over 13.6 million square feet, has had development oversight for 2.4 million square feet, and has financed $550 million originated out of $1.1 billion in financing and/or refinancing. Mr. Ward’s experience allows him to provide detailed asset management reporting and portfolio strategies tailored to individual partner needs and objectives, using his extensive knowledge to achieve exceptional results. Prior to joining Bridge, Ward served as Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Fairlead Commercial Real Estate from 2012 to 2016. Ward’s past roles include Chief Financial Officer with Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate where he assisted in the firms many refinance and recapitalization efforts, Vice President at Banyan Street Partners where he was responsible for evaluating new potential acquisitions with an additional focus on asset management and financial initiatives of 2.2 million square feet of properties. As Regional Vice President of America’s Capital Partners he led $630 million in direct acquisitions, $1 billion in acquisitions/recapitalizations $500 million in direct financing, and $850 million in total financing/refinancing, including 5.1 million square feet of asset management and 1.2 million square feet of redevelopment. While working for Cousins Properties he asset managed 3.1 million square feet of office in 4 states, assisted in development oversight of 1.2 million square feet of office space, and led entitlement efforts on 2.1 million square feet of office space and 1600 condominium units. Mr. Ward received a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Real Estate from Florida State University where he was a National Merit Scholar. Mr. Ward also has his Series 7, 63 licenses.
Brian Siebert is Chief Financial Officer of Bridge Office. Mr. Siebert has extensive experience in commercial office real estate operations, development, finance, acquisitions and dispositions. Prior to joining Bridge, Mr. Siebert worked for 20 years at Hines Interests, one of the largest real estate investment and management firms in the world with over $100 billion in assets under management. At Hines, Mr. Siebert was responsible for all aspects of financial management, reporting, and internal controls for the Southeast region. This included over 12 million square feet of assets under management including office, retail, multi-family, and mixed-use projects in various stages of development or operations. In addition to overseeing the accounting and finance functions at Hines, Mr. Siebert partnered with senior leadership and provided support in acquisition due diligence, underwriting, and debt financing. Mr. Siebert received his B.S. in Finance from the University of Evansville.
Mark Ferris is Chief Operating Officer and a Partner at Bridge Commercial Real Estate. He has extensive experience in commercial office real estate operations, asset management, landlord leasing, development, and construction. Prior to joining Bridge, Mr. Ferris worked for 22 years at Hines, one of the largest real estate investment and management firms in the world with over $90B of assets under management. Mr. Ferris was responsible for mixed use commercial developments located in Atlanta with aggregate budgets exceeding $700MM from 2012 to 2017. Mr. Ferris was responsible for the operational and asset management of over 6.6 MM square feet of class A and B office assets valued at over $1.5B from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Ferris served on and led the asset/property/construction/leasing teams of over 20 assets representing more than 12 MM square feet with over $300 MM in annual revenues in multiple markets in various regions of the US from 1994 to 2008. Mr. Ferris has a proven track record of success in the repositioning and stabilization of assets while meeting or exceeding investor financial goals. He has been recognized with awards such as “Top Producer – Office” for office lease transactions from Atlanta NAIOP in 2012, “Power Broker” from Cleveland CoStar for Office Leasing Transactions in 2006. Mr. Ferris received his B.A. from St. Lawrence University.
Mr. Hansen has experience in real estate and business development including hands-on experience in property acquisition, entitlement and development, asset turnaround planning and repositioning, asset management, and construction beginning in 1994. During the last eight years at Bridge, Mr. Hansen has led the effort in sourcing, underwriting, acquiring, and managing all of Bridge’s commercial office investments. This has included sourcing and evaluating hundreds of opportunities and acquiring over 35 buildings totaling over 7.5 million square feet of commercial office assets. This cumulative portfolio represents well over $1 billion in assets and has generated strong double digit returns. Mr. Hansen has been instrumental in building and maintaining the relationships with industry professionals that have developed into joint venture partnerships and opportunities that have increased capital deployment, broadened Bridge’s footprint, diversified geography, and enhanced returns for investors. Prior to his tenure with Bridge Multifamily Funds I, II and III, Mr. Hansen was an essential member of Bridge Loan Capital Fund LP, responsible for sourcing opportunistic real estate acquisitions and handling relationships with the FDIC, HUD, banks, and special servicers. Mr. Hansen attended Brigham Young University studying Business Management.
Steve Greenhut serves as the Deputy General Counsel at Bridge Investment Group and is the primary legal counsel for Bridge’s Office Division. He has experience representing real estate developers, purchasers, sellers, landlords and tenants in the purchase, sale, entitlement and leasing of various commercial properties, ranging from raw land to large office tower portfolios, and has helped clients with the sale, purchase and leasing of billions of dollars’ worth of real property since 1999. Prior to joining Bridge, Steve was an equity partner with regional law firm of Balch & Bingham, LLP, where he served as outside counsel to Bridge, as well as various other real estate clients, and was the firm’s managing partner of the Jacksonville, Florida office. From January 2003 through September 2013, Steve was an equity partner at two smaller regional law firms, where his practice focused solely on commercial real estate. Prior to this time, Steve was an associate at the law firms of Mahoney Adams, then one of the oldest law firms in the State of Florida, and McGuire Woods, a large national law firm, where he focused on both litigation and commercial real estate.
Steve graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1985 with a degree in Business Administration. After serving 7 years in the Army and obtaining the rank of Captain, Steve attended law school at the University of Florida where he obtained his juris doctorate in 1995. While serving in the Army, Steve also obtained a Master of Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University. Steve is a member of the Florida Bar Association and has been selected to Best Lawyers in America since 2011.
Brian Tretinik serves as a Managing Director with a focus on acquisitions and strategic initiatives for Bridge’s Office division in the Northeast U.S. Since joining Bridge, Mr. Tretinik has played a key role in the recent acquisitions of assets such as One North LaSalle in Chicago and O’Hare International Center in Rosemont, Illinois. With industry experience across a variety of property types since 2004, Mr. Tretinik is highly adept in investor relations management as well as lending and equity financing. Over the course of his career, Mr. Tretinik has raised an estimated $600 million in capital funds, and invested approximately $300 million of equity and mezzanine capital in real estate valued at close to $2 billion. Prior to joining Bridge, Mr. Tretinik served as Vice President for Investor Relations and Vice President of Acquisitions at CrossHarbor Capital Partners LLC. In the latter role, he was responsible for originating and underwriting investment opportunities. Through a hybrid strategy of value-add, opportunistic debt and equity transactions throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean, Mr. Tretinik helped generate an annual investment pipeline of more than $400 million. Mr. Tretinik also served as a Vice President at TriSail Capital Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation. During his time at TriSail, he was directly involved in the execution of more than $130 million in mezzanine, bridge and equity financing for real estate valued in excess of $1 billion. Mr. Tretinik received a bachelor’s degree in finance with minors in history and international business from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a Juris Doctor in business and financial law from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.
Tina Renee McCall serves as the Managing Director of Asset Management at Bridge Investment Group and oversees the Asset Management and Disposition teams nationally. A proven problem-solver and leader, McCall is highly experienced in asset management, leasing, capital markets and portfolio management. Prior to joining Bridge, McCall was the Senior Vice President of Asset Management at Gemini Rosemont Commercial Real Estate, where she helmed the organization’s East Region office and managed the investment performance for 20 buildings totaling more than 3 million square feet. She hired and directed asset management analysts, brokers, property managers, administrative staff and engineers to implement marketing and management strategies, and she successfully completed more than 100 lease transactions over a four-year period. McCall also served as Vice President of Asset Management for Columbia Property Trust, where she directed the financial performance of 20 assets totaling more than 7 million square feet in major U.S. markets such as New York, Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, Raleigh-Durham and Pittsburgh. McCall significantly enhanced the value of real estate assets while maintaining an average occupancy rate of 95 percent. She also played an integral role in the firm’s successful disposition of 18 properties, totaling nearly 4 million square feet. During her time as Investment Officer at Wells Real Estate Funds, McCall completed more than 900,000 square feet of new and renewed leases, helped with a strategic portfolio disposition totaling 1.9 million square feet, and maintained an average occupancy rate of 94 percent. McCall received a bachelor’s degree in environmental economics and management from the University of Georgia, as well as an MBA with a concentration in finance from Georgia State University. She is a Certified Commercial Investment Member and currently serves as the 2019 Past-President for CREW Atlanta. She served as a Director for the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors during 2018 and volunteers her time with her daughters’ Girl Scout troops.
Dean Patterson serves as Managing Director of Asset Management for Bridge Office. Mr. Patterson acts as the information source for investors and lenders, producing monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting for their portfolio. He oversees loan and investor compliance, operating budgets, and strategic capital planning. As part of the asset management team of Bridge’s current portfolio, Dean is closely involved with Bridge’s acquisitions and dispositions. Mr. Patterson has been in the commercial real estate industry since 1988 in a wide variety of roles, including investment sales, non-performing loan workouts and REO property dispositions, debt underwriting, acquisitions and asset management. Prior to joining Bridge, Mr. Patterson spent ten years as Senior Vice President with TIER REIT. Dean worked closely with JV partners on investment and personnel decisions over a 2.7M SF office portfolio located throughout the southeast and Washington, DC. During his 28-year real estate career, Mr. Patterson has held positions with regional and national real estate firms including Prudential, J.P. Morgan, MBL Life Assurance Corporation, Prentiss Properties and CB Commercial. Mr. Patterson received a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University in 1984 and an MBA from Tulane in 1987.
Kelly Kuykendall is Director of Asset Managment for Bridge Office. She has a breadth of institutional real estate experience including acquisitions, asset management, capital markets, investments sales and tax/accounting. Prior to joining Bridge in May 2017, Ms. Kuykendall was an Associate Director with HFF where she closed nearly $1 billion of office investment sales transactions across the Southeastern U.S. over a two-year period. Prior to HFF, Ms. Kuykendall worked on the investments team at Parkway Properties. She was involved in over $1.5 billion of acquisitions including the merger with Thomas Properties Group and individual asset acquisitions in Atlanta and South Florida. She was also responsible for the quarterly valuations on 4.2 million square feet and worked with the Atlanta based asset management team on lease valuations and operating budgets. Ms. Kuykendall began her career in public accounting where she spent four years in the real estate group at Deloitte, providing tax consulting and compliance services to large publicly traded REITs as well as private investors and developers. She also spent nearly three years as the tax manager for Childress Klein Properties, a private developer with offices in Charlotte and Atlanta and a then portfolio in excess of 23 million square feet of office, retail and industrial properties located across the Southeast and valued at $1 billion. Ms. Kuykendall earned her Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Mississippi and her MBA with concentrations in real estate and finance from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Nicholas Nigro serves as Director of Asset Managment for Bridge Office Fund Manager. Mr. Nigro has more than a decade of institutional real estate experience, including acquisitions, asset management, and capital markets. Prior to joining Bridge in January 2019, Mr. Nigro worked at Silverpeak Argentic, a New York-based affiliate of Elliott Capital Management focused on providing fixed and floating-rate debt financing across asset classes. During this time, Mr. Nigro assisted with the structuring and oversaw the underwriting, due diligence, and closing of more than $240 million of loans for office, multifamily, hotel, retail, and student housing assets. Previously, Mr. Nigro served as Senior Vice President for Gemini Rosemont Commercial Real Estate (formerly Rosemont Realty), a vertically-integrated commercial real estate office operating platform. His responsibilities included acquisitions, capital raise efforts, and special projects at the discretion of executive management. While at Gemini Rosemont, Mr. Nigro was involved in the sourcing, financing, underwriting, and closing of nearly $1 billion of Class A office assets totaling 6.7 million square feet across the U.S. Additionally, Mr. Nigro was a key member of the internal team responsible for the recapitalization of the company by Gemini Investments, a publicly-traded investment platform based in Hong Kong. Previously, Mr. Nigro was an investment banking analyst at Covington Associates in Boston, responsible for the valuation of public and private companies. Mr. Nigro began his career as an analyst Duff & Phelps in Boston, where he evaluated commercial real estate across asset classes. Mr. Nigro earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Accounting from Boston College.
Tommy Spinosa serves as Director of Asset Management for Bridge Office. He has extensive institutional real estate experience including acquisitions, asset management, development and capital markets. Mr. Spinosa is responsible for originating, structuring and executing real estate investments on behalf of the company and its fund investors. Prior to joining Bridge, Mr. Spinosa served as managing director for Crescent Investment Group, an Atlanta based private equity firm focusing on the acquisition of institutional quality real estate in the Southeast. While serving in this capacity, Mr. Spinosa successfully completed $352 million in transactions with numerous institutional fund partners and was responsible for the business plan execution of the real estate investments. Mr. Spinosa spent five years as Senior Asset Manager for JTS Realty Services, a full-service development and management company based out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During his tenure, Mr. Spinosa was responsible for a diversified portfolio consisting of 1.5 Million square feet of office, retail and multifamily properties valued at over $550M. His responsibilities included institutional reporting, capital procurement, lease negotiations, budget preparation, and daily involvement with property operations and monthly asset performance review with onsite managers. Mr. Spinosa began his career in 2004 at Northmarq Capital, a real estate investment banking firm. During his time at Northmarq, Mr. Spinosa procured debt and equity loans for third-party borrowers aggregating $425 million in over 40 transactions. Mr. Spinosa earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in finance and real estate from the University of Georgia.
Jennifer Mineck is the Director of Asset Management for Bridge Investment Group. Ms. Mineck has over 18 years of experience in commercial real estate management and currently asset manages 2.9 million square feet in Atlanta. Prior to joining Bridge Investment Group, Ms. Mineck served as the Senior Vice President of Property Management at Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate. As Jackson Oats Shaw’s Senior Vice President of Property Management, she lead a team of over 35 property managers and building engineers and oversaw operations for the firm’s 43 building portfolio in excess of 4 million square feet. Ms. Mineck began her commercial real estate career at Jones Lang LaSalle in late 2001 where she managed a 1+ million square foot class A office campus in North Atlanta. Ms. Mineck holds a Bachelor of Science, Pre-Law Degree from Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri.
David McCleve serves as Director of Asset Management for Bridge Office. Over the last six years with Bridge, Mr. McCleve has been involved with commercial office and multifamily acquisitions, asset management, fund analytics, and capital raising support. He has direct experience with over $1 billion of commercial office and multifamily real estate acquisitions, placing over $350 million of equity across 38 transactions and 12 states. His responsibilities include originating new transactions, structuring transactions with joint venture sponsors, financing, underwriting, due diligence, and closing. Concurrent with acquisitions, Mr. McCleve is responsible for asset management of over 5.8 million square feet of commercial office. His responsibilities included managing lender relationships, monitoring the progress of the business plan, doing quarterly valuations, recommending distributions, and the asset level reporting to the Fund LP’s. Mr. McCleve holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management with an emphasis in Finance from Brigham Young University.
Bridge Office has substantial access to deal flow through the firm's reputation as a committed buyer and longstanding industry relationships with asset owners and the brokerage community.
Our differentiated process leverages the operational resources of our nationwide asset and property management teams for local market insight and intensive due diligence on every asset to complement our investment capabilities and mitigate risk.
Bridge Office currently manages over 13 million square feet of commercial office, with a Bridge performance history of averaging 53% discount to replacement cost.
Bridge Commercial Real Estate
Bridge Commercial Real Estate (BCRE) is a fully-integrated commercial office operating platform and a subsidiary of Bridge Investment Group. Our mission is to be a bridge to the future – redefining what a real estate company can be. BCRE provides commercial office brokerage services, property management, leasing, and construction services for Bridge Office Funds. Our portfolio currently includes 93 office buildings in 37 markets across 14 states with more on the way.
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