segments and is Opus Group one of the coun- Mark Rauenhorst, Chairman & CEO try’s largest Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: $2.2 Billion developers and Area of Specialization: Development managers of Number of Offices: 26 military hous- Number of Employees: 1,987 ing. Total starts During its 55 years in the development for the Dallas-1business, O0pus Group has completed
based company 2,438 projects totaling 238 million sf
lastyearreached and has estab-
Pogue $6.6 billion, or lished special-
44 properties. It izations in the
completed 39 office, indus-assets worth approximately $1.5 billion. t r i a l , r e t a i l ,
On the ownership side, it controls 462 m u l t i f a m i l y ,
properties valued at $43.1 billion. g o v e r n m e n t ,
ins titu tional , Colliers International
higher educa- Carolyn Sidor, Executive Vice President,
tion and sus- US Operations
tainable devel- Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: $2 Billion
opment sectors. Area of Specialization: Brokerage
Rauenhorst The majority of Number of Offices: 293
its projects have Number of Employees: 11,000
been build-to-
suits (89%), with a smattering of specu-1Last year, th2is affiliation of commercial
lative development (11%). Currently, real estate firms was responsible for
the company has 35 million sf planned 41,084 leasing and sales transactions
or under way. worth roughly
“Despite current market conditions, $73 billion.
clients are still staying focused on sus- Bas e d i n
tainable development. At Opus, we’re B o s t o n , i t s
dedicated to sustainability by seeking member com-
innovative and cost-efficient solutions,” panies offer a
says Rauenhorst. “Our country is in the range of ser-
early stages of a paradigm shift in devel- vices, including
opment, and our sector will forge new t e n a n t a n d
practices that will become permanent.” property repre-
sentation, cor-
porate services,
Sidor property and
facility manage-
ment, valuation
and appraisal, development, consulting
and location advisory. It also has prac-
tice groups specializing in such areas as
hotels, life sciences, advanced technol-
ogy, not-for-profit, law firm services and
multimodal services. Today, Colliers
International member firms are located
in 61 countries on six continents and
manage over 868 million sf.
slower transactional volume in the near
term, but “we see an increase in demand
for consultative services.”
In addition to consulting services,
C&W offers client solutions, capital
markets and transaction services expertise. The New York City-based company
consummated 28,041 deals last year,
totaling $124 billion. Some 1,963, or
$79.5 billion, were sales, while 26,078
leases accounted for the balance. The
firm is also a majority owner in Cushman
& Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman, a
provider of debt and equity finance for
all property types.
9Inland Real Estate Group of Cos. Inc.
Daniel L. Goodwin, Chairman & CEO
Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: $2.3 Billion
Areas of Specialization: Ownership/Investment,
Finance
Number of Offices: 50
Number of Employees: 1,230
Setting a new annual acquisition record,
Inland Real Estate Group paid $6.2 billion
to add 716 properties totaling more than
30 million sf and 10,411 hotel rooms to its
portfolio last
year. Today, the
Oak Brook,
IL-based firm
owns and manages some 1,400
properties in 46
states worth over
$25 billion,
including more Cushman & Wakefield
than 76 million Bruce Mosler, President & CEO
sf of retail, Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: $2.1 Billion
Goodwin industrial, office Area of Specialization: Brokerage
and multifamily Number of Offices: 227
properties as Number of Employees: 15,000
well as 98 hotels totaling 14,471 rooms.
The company is also active in the financing “A slower economy will generally pose
sector, having committed some $2.3 billion1challenges fo1r the sector, but it will also
to 113 deals last year. present specific
And if the CEO’s view is any indica- opportunities,”
tion, those numbers will be even bigger s a y s M o s l e r.
in coming years. “In the current environ- “Owners, inves-ment, investors with discretionary capital tors and occu-are seeing opportunities that didn’t pre- piers are evalu-viously exist,” says Goodwin. ating ways to
reduce costs,
increase effi-ciencies or take
advantage of
market dynam-
Mosler ics.” He expects
to record
