About
Professional Summary
Jeremy Lyons brings more than 17 years of experience in all aspects of property and asset management. As a member of the Real Estate Management Services team, Jeremy’s responsibilities include construction and maintenance administration, real estate analysis, site selection and acquisition, building operations, budgeting and financial tracking/reporting, building inspections as well as tenant and vendor relations at industrial, office and retail properties.
Prior to his current role, Jeremy was responsible for the management of over 850,000 square feet of office and medical office buildings in the Chicago market, where his duties included creating preventive maintenance programs, negotiating vendor contracts, performing property auditing, managing construction of tenant improvements and capital projects, supervising all collections activity and approving all property invoices and expenditures. In addition, Jeremy identified multiple cost savings opportunities for owners by instituting initiatives such as renegotiating contracts and performing certain work in-house.
From 2008 through 2011, Jeremy was the senior property manager for a 2.1 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. During that time, he cut operating costs by 20% while consistently receiving the highest possible grades on tenant satisfaction surveys. Jeremy also successfully supervised multiple tenant improvement and capital projects while keeping them on schedule and within budget.
As a vice president at Gerson Development from 2004 to 2008, Jeremy managed day-to-day operations of a five-property mixed-use portfolio, consistently raising property income while lowering expenses. In addition to marketing and leasing the retail, office, and apartment space, Jeremy identified new development opportunities and managed new construction administration.
In 2002, Jeremy acted as facility manager for 250,000 square feet of medical office space at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare spanning more than 20 different locations. His responsibilities included the preparation of annual operating expense budgets and reconciliations, development of long-term capital improvement plans, coordination of tenant improvement projects, the negotiation of services contracts and oversight of performance.
Education
- BBA, Notre Dame
- Real Property Administrator (RPA), BOMA
- Certified Property Manager (CPM), IREM
Memberships & Involvements
- BOMA
- IREM
- NAIOP
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My Team
My Team
Kristin oversees a team and manages day-to-day operational activities including tenant relations, financial budgeting, ownership reporting, negotiating new and reoccurring vendor contracts, lease administration, construction management and capital improvements.
In her current role, Kristin has acted as an owner representative on over $1 million in TI projects including Evanston Dental, Pierce Gray, NIIT Cognitive Arts, Akers Stohle and Borden, Insight Behavioral Health and Northwestern University.
Kristin has overseen many capital improvement projects, including an upgrade of the fire alarm system to accommodate new tenants, installation of a new card access system to enhance security and the replacement of two centrifugal chillers that were original to the building.
Kristin was formerly the on-site property manager at an office building in Northbrook, Illinois. Since Kristin took over management duties at this location in 2014, the renewal rate of existing tenants rose to 79%. Kristin consistently demonstrates her customer service priority with a strong ability to manage customer questions and objections in a proficient and productive manner.
Previously, Kristin was a management and brokerage services representative for Chicagoland Commercial Real Estate, Inc. where she was responsible for the day-to-day operational management of 43 commercial properties totaling over 900,000 square feet. Kristin prepared all new leases and lease renewals, managed tenant relations, processed accounts payable, supervised tenant improvement projects, developed marketing strategies and gathered and organized competitive bids from all contractors on numerous construction projects.
Ingrid has more than 23 years of experience as an executive assistant concentrating on real estate as well as engineering and construction management. She is committed to ensuring the successful completion of projects and client service.
Prior to her current role, Ingrid was an administrative assistant at AECOM for ten years supporting the regional vice president. Culminating her tenure there, she was reassigned to the Material Testing Services division where she was the main administrative support, which included scheduling 50 technicians on a daily basis for construction projects, such as Trump Tower, O’Hare Airport and Block 37, throughout the Chicago Metropolitan area.
Debbie has more than 30 years of experience with commercial real estate brokers and developers in both controller and valuation analyst roles.
Debbie’s high-level real estate finance expertise includes the evaluation of potential acquisition and existing properties using discounted cash flow models. In addition, she assists brokers and principals in the evaluation of leasing proposals using ProCalc analysis software.
Debbie’s proven areas of expertise include:
- acquisition and development analysis
- financial analysis
- budgeting
- cash management
- financial statements
- internal and external reporting
Previously, Debbie worked in finance and accounting for Hamilton Partners, a national commercial real estate developer, for nine years. Her duties there included management of certain financial, accounting and cash management functions, as well as investment acquisition and valuation.
Debbie began her career with KPMG, a “big four” public accounting firm, where she supervised, planned and executed financial audits of medium and large real estate developers, syndicators and financial institutions. She also led and participated in significant due diligence acquisition and divestiture projects for both real estate and financial institutions.
Hong Davis works in the Real Estate Management Services group at Colliers where she handles tenant requests, invoice compliance, delinquencies and work authorizations Hong also coordinates annual and semi-annual preventative maintenance for more than one million square feet of property. Hong is proficient at Yardi accounting software.
Previously, she dedicated 19 years to a national food chain, conducting training, hiring, scheduling and checks and balances. During her last 10 years, she served as a head bookkeeper. She was also on the Safety Committee Board and Customer Superior Service Board for her District. In her years of service, she received multiple outstanding customer service awards for doing what she loves most, which is helping others.