NAI Horizon is pleased to announce that Pat Rogers, CCIM, has been elected President of the Central Arizona CCIM Chapter for 2011. As President, Pat will preside over all local CCIM meetings and will act as the Chapter’s representative at international CCIM meetings which will be held in Washington, DC and Phoenix during the coming year.

The Central Arizona CCIM Chapter is one of nearly 62 local chapters of the CCIM Institute. The mission of the chapter is to provide quality education programs, networking opportunities, and technology products to its members, as well as to promote the merits of the CCIM designation to prospective members and the business community at large.

We heartily congratulate Pat on her new position.

A significant accomplishment in Valley commercial real estate happened this quarter: The completion of The Learning Journey corporate office/distribution center in Deer Valley. This 40,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility features many unique architectural treatments. Plus, it’s the only build to suite facility built in the Deer Valley Airport area in 2010.

For fifteen years The Learning Journey has been designing and manufacturing an exclusive line of award-winning children’s interactive educational products. All products at The Learning Journey encourage learning and develop confidence as they enhance a child’s potential. All products build on the skills necessary for children to be prepared for school and beyond.

NAI Brokers Andrea Davis and Josh Landers worked with their client from the beginning showing them existing buildings that they could convert to meet their needs as well as shell buildings. After reviewing all of their options (and quite a few tours and number crunching) it became clear that they could build their dream building for less than they could purchase a shell warehouse space or retrofit an existing warehouse building.

Davis/Landers represented the Buyer in the land purchase and worked through the build to suite process with them. They also worked hand in hand to make sure that their building not only works for them today, yet will have a second generation value if they choose to sell in the future.

Congratulations to The Learning Journey on their exciting new facility and to Andrea Davis and Josh Landers for showing their client the many options that were available and choosing the best one.

NAI Global, headquartered in Princeton, NJ held a national corporate real estate solutions symposium designed to evaluate NAI’s worldwide corporate services strategy. Working to develop NAI’s Global commitment to a seamless platform of corporate real estate consulting and advisory. A group of 40 NAI professionals from around the country and Europe spent three days evaluating, planning and developing the NAI Global Corporate Services Strategies for the next five years.

Laurel Lewis of NAI Horizon, Phoenix, Arizona was part of this hand picked group of real estate professionals. Lewis reported, “The strategy meeting was attended by top corporate real estate consultants from around the NAI system and provided a terrific opportunity for those involved in providing corporate solutions to help mold the Global platform and shape future strategies.” Lewis recently joined NAI Horizon and will be part of NAI Horizon’s Corporate Solutions Team.

With 18 years of experience in office leasing and sales this new corporate solutions role fits well with Laurel’s experience and her professional business strategy going forward.