Commercial
Real Estate 2004

A Call for Synergy

"If you add up the projects under way downtown," said Whitney Kerr, "the new Shook Hardy building, the IRS Center, the Federal Reserve, the Performing Arts Center, H&R Block, the new Kansas City Star printing facility, you are looking at more investment in aggregate in the center of the city than anyplace else in the metropolitan area."

So saying, Kerr, of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker, set the tone for an energetic Ingram's Industry Outlook on the subject of commercial real estate. In fact, Kerr was just one of about twenty-five Kansas City's real estate leaders who had convened on this cool, late March morning to discuss the state of their industry.

The discussion that followed proved more forward-looking and upbeat than any held in the last several years. For all the mixed blessings of the commercial real estate market nationally, and even locally, one could not help but sense a quiet optimism that the office and industrial markets were about to show the kind of strength that the retail market has continued to show despite adversity.

Participants Include:

(front row, left to right)

Tim Schaffer
Cohen-Esrey Real Estate Services

Greg Swetnam
Kessinger Hunter & Company

Phil Hansen
Block & Company Realtors

Bob Galamba
Cohen-Esrey Real Estate Services

Bucky Brooks
First Scout Realty Advisors

Brent Roberts
MC Lioness Realty Group

(second row, left to right)

Kevin Nunnink
Integra Realty Resources

Barry Brady
Highwood Properties

Whitney Kerr Sr.,
Colliers Turley Martin Tucker

Olen Monsees
B.A. Karbank & Company

Mike Mayer
Grubb & Ellis/The Winbury Group

Dan Lowe
RED Development

David Zimmer
Zimmer Real Estate Services

Jerry Fogel
Kessinger Hunter & Company

(back row, left to right)

Larry Glaze
Glaze Commercial Real Estate Advisors

Tom Turner
Collateral Mortgage Company

Frazier Bell
Colliers Turley Martin Tucker

Kevin Wilkerson
Trammell Crow Co.

John Rubenstein
Rubenstein Real Estate

Michelle Sweeney
Ingram's Magazine

Tom Cohen
GMAC Commercial Mortgage

Don Maddux
Prudential CRES Commercial Real Estate

Mike Lanning
CB Richard Ellis