About
Professional Summary
Chris Read specializes in the sale and leasing of retail property for Colliers | Virginia. As the Director of the Retail Services Team in Norfolk, Virginia, he has extensive recent and long-term experience generating positive results to owners, developers and tenants in the retail sector for over 24 years.
On behalf of national and regional clients, Chris has achieved success on a multitude of assignments including, but not limited to, shopping center leasing and sales, site selection, new retail developments, land subdivisions and parcel sales to end users, tenant-mix strategies, architectural guidance/shopping center design, big box leasing, redevelopment projects, portfolio leasing/sales, tenant representation, complex contract negotiations, investment sales and surplus property dispositions. This knowledge base presents a thorough understanding of special requirements to furnish a personalized approach to individual client needs.
Accomplishments
- Past recipient of the Broker Employee of the Year award
- Gold Award, Tidewater Association of Realtors Member, Million Dollar Sales and Leasing Club
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Old Dominion University
- Master of Science, Old Dominion University
Memberships & Involvements
- Member, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
- Member, Greater Hampton Roads Real Estate Association
- Member, Old Dominion University Real Estate Board
- Member, ICSC Southern Division Planning Committee
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My Team
My Team
Ned Brooks
Senior Vice President
Norfolk - Main
Ned Brooks joined the Retail Leasing and Sales Team of Hampton Roads in 1999. He develops and implements marketing strategies for shopping centers, property owners, buyers, and tenants by providing in-depth market analysis, site selection, lease and sales negotiation services. Ned was called on by Navy Federal Credit Union, the world’s largest credit union chain, for a major branch expansion in Hampton Roads and beyond. To date, he has completed over 30 branch locations. More recently, he was selected by Aldi US to assist with their grocery store expansion in the region. There are currently 15 completed transactions and more pending. In his over 30-year involvement in commercial real estate, he has exclusively represented over 50 centers in the Hampton Roads marketplace and served dozens of retailers in both Virginia and North Carolina. His assignments range from box disposition and general sales of land and buildings, to tenant representation and shopping center leasing.
Tyler Brooks joined the team in December 2011 as a Retail Leasing and Sales Associate. Tyler’s prior career included marketing-oriented assignments in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Florence, Italy. As part of the Retail Leasing and Sales team, he provides services to developers, landlords, tenants and property owners by using different marketing strategies to service his clients. As a retail specialist, Tyler will serve his clients with detailed knowledge of the Hampton Roads area.
In 2015, Tyler and two other associates won the leasing business of Greenbrier Marketcenter, thepremier shopping center in Chesapeake, VA. In 2016, Tyler and another associate leased a 350,000SF center in Newport News from 25% occupied to 95% in less than a year. They also back filled a50,000 SF Kroger (which was vacant for eight years). Tyler and team, in 2019 leased over 18 spaces in a Virginia Beach shopping center (Lynnhaven North) in three months that had been vacant for years.
Jeff Parker, CCIM, has over 19 years of experience in commercial real estate as a broker, national retailer, landlord. Jeff’s diverse real estate background ensures that he can competently advise his clients to achieve their real estate objectives.
Starting in 2000, Parker spent 10 years in leasing and investment sales at CBRE Norfolk, VA. Jeff earned his CCIM designation in 2006 and was consistently awarded annually for his high level of production.
In 2010 Parker transitioned to Dollar Tree Inc., a Fortune 135 company, as real estate portfolio manager where he handled lease restructuring and portfolio improvement for over 1,200 stores. Mr. Parker gained an invaluable education in lease negotiation and corporate real estate best practices from one of the most active and successful retailers in the world.
Parker was then brought on as Director of Leasing for a Virginia based shopping center REIT in 2014. His prior experience as a broker and national retailer resulted in his team consistently exceeding industry average rent spreads while driving value and increasing occupancy across a portfolio of 60 income producing properties with 5.5 million square feet in 12 states.
Mr. Parker returned to CBRE in late 2017, now Colliers International after the 2019 acquisition of the Virginia offices. An integral part of the Colliers retail services and investment team, he has completed multiple investment sales and leases and was chosen to lease Coastal Virginia’s premier 69-acre mixed-use town center, Summit Pointe, a $350 million-dollar extension of the Dollar Tree / Family Dollar international corporate headquarters.