JLL is digging its heels into the data center business in North Texas, adding an executive to its data center solutions group in Dallas. The firm hired John Pasta as executive vice president. He most recently directed strategic accounts at QTS Realty Trust’s data center division after seven years in tenant representation service with Avison Young.
Meanwhile, @properties Lone Star Christie’s International Real Estate is expanding the sports and entertainment division it launched in February, hiring former National Football League tight end and luxury broker, MJ McFarland in Austin, as senior vice president of the division.
McFarland played for the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys from 2014 to 2019 before becoming a licensed realtor, listing luxury homes in Austin with Moreland Properties and, starting last year, directing The Agency’s sports and entertainment division. In his five years as a luxury broker, he’s sold $170 million, putting him in the top 1 percent of brokers in the state, according to a news release.
Here are more recent updates in Texas real estate:
- Austin-based Endeavor Real Estate hired Andrew Levy as managing principal in Dallas to expand the firm’s office acquisitions. Levy spent the last two decades as senior managing director and co-head of JLL Capital Markets’ Dallas office. Levy and Endeavor decided to join forces after recently “comparing notes” and agreeing on a profile of office buildings they believe would bring “outsized risk-adjusted returns” during the market’s current dislocation, Endeavor managing principal Jamil Alam said in a news release.
- Real estate lending firm Ternus Lending, based in Dallas, named Robert Greenberg executive vice president of strategy. Greenberg, a member of Forbes Real Estate Council, previously spent close to two years directing lender finance in Dallas for Greenville, South Carolina–based Lima One Capital.
- Multifamily investment manager S2 Capital promoted five employees to managing director, three to vice president and hired a new managing director of accounting, Dilliana Stewart, who was one of five Dallas appointments of the total nine:
- Ryan Everett, promoted to Managing Director & Head of Acquisitions in Dallas
- Michael Blippus, promoted to Managing Director of Acquisitions in Atlanta
- Patrick Connell, promoted to Managing Director & Head of Capital Formation & IR in Greenwich, CT
- Cole Stephens, promoted to Managing Director, Head of Asset Management in Dallas
- Jared Everett, promoted to Managing Director of Portfolio Management in Dallas
- Brooks Teeter, promoted to Vice President of Asset Management in Dallas
- Cole Ortega, promoted to Vice President of Acquisitions in Denver
- Will Foster, promoted to Vice President of Acquisitions in Charlotte.
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