Cushman & Wakefield won five of seven awards at the Boston Commercial Brokers Association (CBA) dinner Thursday, March 7, 2013.
"We are extremely proud of the leadership, expertise and innovative solutions our brokerage professionals deliver to our clients each and every day at Cushman & Wakefield and we are delighted to receive CBA’s recognition of outstanding achievement in so many categories this year," said Thomas L. Collins, executive managing director of the firm’s New England region, in a statement.
Cushman & Wakefield’s wins included:
- Investment sale of the year: Robert E. Griffin Jr. and Edward C. Maher Jr. represented Bank of America in the sale of 100 Federal St. The sale represented one of the largest office building sales in the U.S. in 2012 and the only downtown office building sale in Boston last year.
- Downtown deal of the year: Gilbert Dailey, David Martel, Debra Gould, William Anderson and Griffin represented the tenant, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), in the 411,128-square-foot, 15-year office lease at 50 Post Office Square.
- J.R. McDonald, Michael Frisoli, and Griffin represented GMCR in the 424,000-square-foot office, R&D and laboratory build-to-suit lease at Burlington Research Center, 43-63 South Ave. in Burlington.
- Retail deal of the year: Cushman & Wakefield’s Geoffrey Millerd, Griffin and Justin Smith were engaged by Foodmaster to sell or lease its 11-store portfolio. After an intense competition between a number of supermarket operators, the complex portfolio was divided between Whole Foods, which acquired six locations and Stop & Shop, which acquired three.
- Most creative deal of the year: Matt Adams, Rory Walsh, Torin Taylor, Rich Ruggiero and Frank Nelson represented National Development and Charles River Realty Investors in the 40,000-square-foot medical office building conversion of 200 Unicorn Park in Woburn.
