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Press Releases
March 08, 2010 ACKERMAN SELLS MAJOR MOB CAMPUS TO NATIONAL HEALTHCARE REIT Healthcare Trust of America Buys Camp Creek for More Than $240/SF Ackerman Medical has sold its groundbreaking Camp Creek Medical Center I and II to a national healthcare REIT for one of the highest per square foot prices in the past year. ### Headquartered in Ackerman manages over 4 million square feet of real estate, including Founded by Charles S. Ackerman in 1967, Ackerman & Co. boasts an in-house team of 75 real estate professionals whose experience spans virtually every aspect of the business. Through efficient management, aggressive sales and leasing, and exemplary tenant representation, the company has established itself as an April 03, 2009 ACKERMAN & CO. INKS TWO PRIVATE SCHOOLS Ackerman & Co. has secured new locations for two notable private schools in the metro The Josh Gregory, Vice President, and Brian Merman, Associate, both with Ackerman & Co. represented the landlord in the transaction, PropCo Kelton whose Principal is Harris Tessler, also a Senior Vice President at Ackerman & Co. Janelle Coutain with Coutain & Associates represented Ackerman’s Vice President Chitra Subbarayan and Neil Steakley, Associate, also represented Little Da Vinci International School, a nonprofit preschool, in its 4,000-square-foot lease at 4055 Roswell Road, a 10,000-square-foot boutique office building owned by the City of Atlanta in the Blue Heron Nature Preserve. “The Blue Heron Nature Preserve is an ideal location for our school – a protected environment that encourages our children to explore and indulge in their curiosity,” said Soraya Rouchdi, the Executive Director of the school. “We’re excited to have this opportunity and to have worked with a sub-landlord like the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, which shared in the excitement of our vision.” Nancy Jones, Executive Director of the nature preserve was instrumental in bringing together compatible uses to preserve the integrity of the center. The other tenant in the Center is the National Audubon Society. Howard Boyd with Hailey Realty in ### Headquartered in Ackerman manages over 4 million square feet of real estate, including Founded by Charles S. Ackerman in 1967, Ackerman & Co. boasts an in-house team of 105 real estate professionals whose experience spans virtually every aspect of the business. Through efficient management, aggressive sales and leasing, and exemplary tenant representation, the company has established itself as an March 27, 2009 ACKERMAN HIRES TOP LAND SALES TEAM Ackerman & Co. announced today that it has tapped one of the city’s top land transaction and investment sales advisory teams as part of its efforts to expand its brokerage division with senior level talent. The team from Bullock Mannelly Partners joining Ackerman & Co. includes:
The team together has been involved in more than $200 million in transactions in the last five years. In particular, John and Larry have been behind some of Atlanta’s most influential and noteworthy commercial real estate developments Their land sales have led to such projects as Hines Interests’ Overton Park and Perimeter Summit, Sembler’s Edgewood Retail District in East Atlanta, Trammell Crow Residential’s Alexan 360 multifamily project on Freedom Parkway and the InterContinental Hotel in Buckhead. Given the current market conditions, they will focus their effort on the distressed asset advisory services into 2010. Ackerman’s latest hires are part of a larger concerted effort taking shape in 2009 for the firm to emphasize new business opportunities with land, multifamily and retail investments sales Earlier this year, Ackerman & Co. purchased the Atlanta boutique real estate firm SouthPointe Partners for an undisclosed sum, adding a multifamily and retail specialty to the company with veteran professionals, including Tennyson Williams. And most recently, Ackerman hired Gina DeRaffele from CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. as a senior member of its tenant representative team. “With John Speros, Larry Wood, Sean Patrick and Kyle Gable, Ackerman & Co. now has even more of the significant brokers in town among its staff,” said F. Keene Miller, President of Brokerage with Ackerman & Co. ### Headquartered in Atlanta, Ackerman & Co. is a leading full-service commercial real estate companies in the southeastern United States. Our expertise in four primary disciplines — brokerage, development, investment and management — enables us to quickly and effectively respond to our clients and create value through innovative real estate solutions. Although each division operates with a high degree of autonomy, together they form a unified, fully diversified organization that can provide as broad or as specific a range of services in order to deliver the best solution for our clients. Ackerman manages over 4 million square feet of real estate, including Perimeter Town Center, Phoenix Office Park, Powers Pointe, 9000 Central Park, and Premier Plaza. Founded by Charles S. Ackerman in 1967, Ackerman & Co. boasts an in-house team more than 100 real estate professionals whose experience spans virtually every aspect of the business. Through efficient management, aggressive sales and leasing, and exemplary tenant representation, the company has established itself as an Atlanta specialist with a strong presence in the national real estate marketplace. But it’s our knowledge, flexibility, comprehensive approach and experience that best equip us to serve our clients today and in the future. December 08, 2008 SANDY SPRINGS MARKETING FIRM BUYS OFFICE BUILDING Ackerman & Co. brokered the sale of the former home of Atlanta Oncology Associates to a whole new planet. Sandy Springs-based Planet Studio LLC, one of Ryan Goldstein, Vice President with Ackerman & Co., and Jeremy Rosenthall, formerly with Ackerman (now with M&P Shopping Centers), brokered the sale for Atlanta Oncology. Tim Head and Taylor Smith with Bryant Commercial Real Estate Partners in Atlanta Oncology is finishing a new medical office project for itself in Alpharetta, while Planet Studio will pack its belongings from its current offices at “We are in a situation to now truly create an office environment that reflects our firm’s personality and abilities,” said Larnie Higgins, President of Planet Studio. “As our firm grows, owning our own building gives us the flexibility we need to expand and cater to our clients’ needs.” Ackerman also brokered a number of other deals in recent weeks:
### Headquartered in Ackerman manages over 4 million square feet of real estate, including Founded by Charles S. Ackerman in 1967, Ackerman & Co. boasts an in-house team of 75 real estate professionals whose experience spans virtually every aspect of the business. Through efficient management, aggressive sales and leasing, and exemplary tenant representation, the company has established itself as an December 05, 2008 ACKERMAN LEASES DRIVES BIG FLEX OFFICE SALE Ackerman & Co. has assisted its partner URDANG Capital, in the sale of both American Business Center (ABC) and WhiteWater Business Center, a 629,600-square-foot mixed use flex office project in Marietta for $48 million to a partnership formed by Capital Commercial Investments Inc. Ackerman has been leasing and managing ABC and WhiteWater since 1999 and helped to stabilize the property during that time, leasing a total of 151,000 square feet. Tenants at the 14-building complex, a mix of single- and two-story buildings, include The Healthfield Group, General Electric, Concentra, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Bekaert Corp. Ackerman’s Jimmy Stevens and David Ellis will maintain the leasing assignment for the new owners. Tom Shafer and John Hinson with Resource Real Estate Partners in URDANG, a division of BNY Mellon Asset Management, continue to maintain their relationships in other properties. "URDANG and its managing agent, Ackerman & Co., have significantly enhanced these properties since we acquired them in December 1999," said Vincent Sanfilippo, chief investment officer of Urdang Capital Management. These improvements along with their excellent location have made the business centers particularly attractive to investors and tenants." The upgrades include replacing roofs on most of the 14 buildings, installing new elevators, re-grading and re-landscaping property frontage, renovating tenant suites, and installing new signs throughout the properties. ### Headquartered in Ackerman manages over 4 million square feet of real estate, including Founded by Charles S. Ackerman in 1967, Ackerman & Co. boasts an in-house team of 75 real estate professionals whose experience spans virtually every aspect of the business. Through efficient management, aggressive sales and leasing, and exemplary tenant representation, the company has established itself as an Founded in 1987 with an exclusive focus on institutional investment grade real estate, URDANG offers a variety of strategies and products, managing more than $2.2 billion in public real estate securities through URDANG Securities Management, Inc. and $1.2 billion in private real estate investments through URDANG Capital Management, Inc. for institutional investors and high net worth individuals throughout global markets and across public and private capital sectors. URDANG's research-driven process combines top down economic analysis and market/country selection with bottom up underwriting of properties, companies and management teams to earn high, risk-adjusted returns. It is one of the investment boutiques of BNY Mellon Asset Management, one of the world's largest global asset managers with approximately U.S. $1.1 trillion in assets under management. The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 34 countries and serving more than 100 markets. The company is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has $22.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, approximately $1.1 trillion in assets under management and services $12 trillion in outstanding debt. Additional information is available at bnymellon.com. February 06, 2009 ACKERMAN & CO. BUYS GATEWAY INDUSTRIAL Ackerman & Co. announced today its purchase of Gateway Distribution, a two-building 410,000-square-foot distribution warehouse facility on Fulton Industrial Boulevard near the intersection of Fulton Industrial and Camp Creek Parkway. Ackerman Gateway LLC – a private investment group formed to purchase the property and managed by Ackerman & Co. – bought Gateway for $6 million from a fund managed by ING Clarion. Chris Riley, Brian Budnick and Frank Fallon with CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. in Gateway Distribution is 50 percent leased to Carolina Logistics Services and is directly served on the property by a CSX rail line. "From an investment and ownership perspective, the industrial market, in our view, demonstrates real upside potential, particularly at current valuations. Ackerman is expected to penetrate this market further in the coming quarters,” said Kris Miller, President of Ackerman & Co. ### Headquartered in Ackerman manages over 4 million square feet of real estate, including Founded by Charles S. Ackerman in 1967, Ackerman & Co. boasts an in-house team more than 100 real estate professionals whose experience spans virtually every aspect of the business. Through efficient management, aggressive sales and leasing, and exemplary tenant representation, the company has established itself as an
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