SOLD OUT: South Florida Industrial Update

As National Director, Industrial Services for the U.S., Stephanie focuses on overall growth of Colliers’ industrial business, including the establishment of new client relationships and expansion of existing affiliations. She promotes talent recruitment and retention to support Colliers’ best-in-class Industrial Services team as they accelerate client success. Drawing on her 25 years of commercial real estate experience, Stephanie leads Colliers’ industrial platform, especially in providing thought leadership, research and marketing. She brings extensive experience in acquisitions, lease transactions and negotiations, asset management, and development projects. Before joining Colliers, Stephanie spent nearly 15 years at Duke Realty Corporation where she rose to the level of Regional Senior Vice President, overseeing leasing for a multi-market, multi-million-square-foot portfolio in Central and South Florida in addition to leading property management, development and marketing of the firm’s industrial portfolio in the region. Prior to her time at Duke, she held progressively more senior roles at Trammell Crow Company and CBRE.

Mr. Easton is the Chairman of The Easton Group, the real estate brokerage, investment, management and development firm he founded in Miami in 1974. Educated at the University of Miami, Mr. Easton received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in1966, and his MBA in 1976, majoring in Finance with a minor in Accounting.

Professionally, Traci has been working for Miller Construction Company since 1993 and became a shareholder with 9 other team members in 2011. She now serves as the Sr. Vice President and oversees business development & marketing, community relations, and is the champion of company culture. Traci is part of the firm’s leadership team and board of directors. Traci lives in Plantation with her husband Troy McHatton. They have raised 3 children, the youngest of whom is a senior at Appalachian State University. Traci’s current community, civic and professional affiliations and leadership positions include the following: CREW Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach –Immediate past President, Board of Directors, CREW Miami – Member, CREW Orlando - Member, NAIOP South Florida Chapter – Past President, Board of Directors, Fort Lauderdale Design & Construction Professionals - Member, Commercial Industrial Association of South Florida (CIASF) – Board of Directors, Vice President, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance – Board of Directors, Leadership Council Member, Rebuilding Together Broward County – President, Board of Directors, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward – Board of Directors, Leadership Broward Foundation – Past Board Chair, Class XX, United Way of Broward County - Women’s Leadership Council, Tocqueville Society, The Commonwealth Institute (TCI) – Member, Host of Big Ideas: Beyond the Book, Henderson Behavioral Health – Annual Dinner Committee Member, Salvation Army Broward County – Ambassador, Red Shield ReDesign Committee member, and 100+ Women Who Care Broward – Member

Adam has helped lead Butters and their institutional and private partners in acquiring hundreds of​ ​acres throughout South Florida for the development of over 5 million square feet of industrial, retail,​ ​hotel, and office product. The total value of the aforementioned projects is in excess of $1 Billion,​ ​and it is estimated the projects have created over 15,000 jobs. Since joining Butters Construction and Development in May of 2007, Adam has been involved in over $1,000,000,000 of acquisitions and developments in several states.

Steven E. McCraney, President & CEO of McCraney Property Company, has offices in West Palm Beach, Orlando, FL. and Charlotte, NC. A self-made entrepreneur, he and his team have developer of Industrial/distribution and office-flex properties. Additionally, the company has developed and operated some 24 company-owned fuel properties within the Florida markets. The company's present active Industrial / distribution developments in South Florida, Orlando (Central Florida), Charlotte and Atlanta total 6,600,000 sf for 2017 / 2018. Mr. McCraney is an active member of The Florida Council of 100, The Orange Bowl Committee, NAIOP’s National Board of Directors, and past President of NAIOP South Florida. National Real Estate Investor magazine acknowledged McCraney to its Top 50 list of US Industrial Developers for 2017. He was Developer of the Year for Central Florida in 2013, 2014 and 2016. He was the former Chairman of the YPO Florida, and serves on its Southern US Executive Board. He serves on the University of Florida’s Bergstrom Real Estate Advisory Board, Place of Hope Children's Charity, Villanova University DiLella Center for Real Estate, and was honored by the South Florida Business Journal as an Ultimate CEO. He holds the CCIM Designation and is a delegate member of SIOR. Mr. McCraney earned his degree from Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, and has completed additional post graduate work at Harvard Business School and Duke University. He is an active alpine mountain climber, having scaled many of the world’s tallest peaks for Children’s Charity "Place of Hope". Recent climbs include: The Avenue of Volcanos, Cayambe, Ecuador 19,000', Elbrus, Russia – 18,510', Aconcagua, Argentina-22,241', Kilimanjaro-Tanzania, Africa-19,340', Mt. Rainier14,411', the Grand Canyon 48 Mile-24 Hour Challenge, and ran the Marine Corp Marathon – Washington, DC.

Melissa is a Managing Director in the Miami office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. She has over 15 years of experience in the real estate industry, securing debt and joint venture equity financing for a broad range of property types with a focus on Office and Industrial. Over the course of her career, she has closed more than $3 billion in capital through first mortgages, mezzanine loans, bridge loans, acquisitions, and joint venture equity for a variety of asset types throughout the U.S. Prior to joining JLL, Melissa spent three years as a Managing Director at Ackman-Ziff. Before that, she held acquisitions and in-house capital markets roles at Maxwelle Real Estate Group in Aventura, Florida, and Eretz Group in New York City. Melissa also serves as Director of Programming for the CREW Network Miami Chapter, and has a seat on the Real Property Development Advisory Board at the University of Miami School of Law. She earned a B.S. from University of Miami.

Ed is President and Managing Principal of Mitchell Property Realty, Inc where he oversees all the operations of the company including investor relations, financing, development and acquisitions. Prior to founding Mitchell Property Realty, Ed served for over 11 years as Regional Senior Vice President of Duke Realty’s Florida Operations. During Ed’s tenure at Duke Realty, he was responsible for the development, marketing, leasing, and management of the company's office and industrial portfolios in Central and South Florida, which totaled more than 12 million square feet and was valued at approximately $1.6 billion. This included 240 tenants and 86 separate buildings. Ed has been in the Florida real estate market for over 30 years. Prior to joining Duke Realty in 2007 as Senior Vice President of its South Florida operations, Ed was First Vice President with CB Richard Ellis for three years and Managing Director for four years. During this tenure, Ed invested and developed properties on his own behalf and for his clients. Ed also held positions as Director of Leasing and Development with Premier Commercial Realty for five years and Leasing Representative and Construction Manager with Trammell Crow Company for five years.