2022 Spring Northwest Regional Retail Report

Derek is the Research Director for Colliers International covering San Francisco, California. As Research Director, he leads the organizational and strategic development of the Research service offering for the San Francisco office and works closely with the Colliers brokers and leadership to provide market expertise to clients and procure new business opportunities.

Derek has contributed to regional and national reports covering a wide range of topics affecting commercial real estate. He leads the development of thought leadership content in San Francisco, tracking real estate and real estate-adjacent trends at both the market level and individual asset level.

With 17 years of real estate experience in the Bay Area, Derek is an expert across multiple markets including San Francisco and the East Bay, where he covered the office and industrial sectors in Oakland, the Tri-Valley, and Walnut Creek.

Doug is the Regional Research Director for Colliers International covering offices across Northern California. As Regional Research Director, he is charged with the organizational and strategic development for the Research Function in these offices.  Additional responsibilities include oversight of the Development team for the region's proprietary property database and related technology.

Doug began his career in the commercial real estate industry in 1999.  After joining Colliers International as a Research Assistant, he was promoted to Research/GIS Director for the Colliers International Walnut Creek office.  Under his leadership, the Research function expanded from its original scope in support of the Office brokerage platform, to include the Industrial and Retail divisions.  His responsibilities included Research Database Integrity, Quarterly Report Publication, GIS, Mapping and Demographics, and all other services provided by the local Research Department. 

He specialized in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) analysis.  As a former GIS Specialist, Doug has worked with Brokerage and Corporate Services to analyze best use and site location projects for clients including, Safeway, Inc., Longs Drug Stores and Safeamerica Credit Union. 

Doug is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys travel with his wife Kelly and sons Gabriel and Roman and attending their team sporting events.

Jacob Pavlik joins the Colliers team after working in the Economic Development and Planning departments for the cities of Hillsboro, Oregon and Alexandria, Virginia, respectively.  At Colliers, he leads a team of researchers to  collect, analyze, and synthesize market data for Puget Sound and Portland. He loves the challenge of taking complex data and making it easily digestible for a wide audience. He assists brokers with research specific to their client's needs, including geovisualizatoin and micromarket analysis.

His authentic passion for commercial real estate is seen most clearly when Jacob explores his local urban ecosystem and travels to new cities around the world to see how they function and relate to each other. He likes to see the built environment adapt to the changing needs, desires, and behaviors of the people who populate it. These functions fit perfectly into Jacob's role as Research Manager, telling the story of how commercial real estate in the Pacific Northwest evolves over time.