Real estate solutions for the food industry
We leverage our in-depth food industry knowledge, industry relationships, and national transaction experience to help you make strategic real estate decisions.
When you partner with the Food Advisory Services group, you are not working with one person or one team. We utilize the global Colliers International platform to combine our unique food-industry knowledge with the best local brokerage teams across the country to make sure our clients receive the absolute best-in-class real estate experience.
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Testimonials
John Rooker, Rooker Co.
"The Colliers Food team brought a breadth of upfront knowledge of both food related contractors and in-place refrigeration systems to this leasing assignment. This knowledge helped us quickly identify the required upgrades needed to take the building to market and evaluate all potential lease-up scenarios. The team identified growth areas within the food sector, taking COVID-related trends into account, and targeted specific users. The plan worked and the space was leased with minimal downtime. Additionally, they remained engaged after the lease was signed, participating in site visits and phone calls as we completed the tenant improvement details. We would enlist the FAS team again and would recommend them to any owner of a food related industrial building.”
Bill Casey, Pinnacle/Gordon Food Service
Tom Hughes, EarthFresh Farms
John Long/Neil Johnson, Provender Partners
Kip Kramer, V. Paulius & Associates
Experience
- 20M+ SF Leased or sold
- 100+ Completed assignments
- 202K SF Average deal size
- 28 States
- $804M+ Transaction value
Food Advisory Services team
Chris Cummings
Senior Vice President, Principal
Atlanta
Since joining Colliers International in 2005, Chris Cummings has been appointed the Director of Colliers' highly specialized National Food Advisory Team. Facility specialization for the team includes refrigerated warehousing, freezer and cooler distribution, food processing and dry food distribution facilities. The Team's expertise in coordinating all technical experts, vendors, and consultants involved in the real estate process has earned them long-term and multi-market assignments with leading food organizations.
Chris' experience serving as head of the Team has earned him a solid national and local client base and prepared him well to understand the unique requirements of food distributors, manufacturers and processors and to deliver the best service possible.
Turner joined Colliers International in 2009 and is an industrial broker focused solely on the food industry. As a member of the Food Advisory Services (FAS) practice group, Turner specializes in the acquisition and disposition of food manufacturing and food distribution facilities. He leverages his unique blend of food industry knowledge, industry relationships, and national transaction experience to help his clients make strategic real estate decisions and achieve transaction objectives.
Specifically, Turner has completed transactions in 25 different states involving a wide range of food-grade facilities (cold storage, freezer/cooler distribution and food processing/manufacturing facilities). Turner’s clientele includes all aspects of the food supply chain such as food manufacturers and processors, food distributors (specialty and broadline), cold 3PL’s and food retailers.
Turner is a member of various food industry trade organizations and enjoys traveling to conferences across the country to continually learn more about the industry and meet new people.
Sam joined Colliers International in 2016. He is a member of the Food Advisory Services (FAS) practice group, and is focused solely on servicing the specialized real estate warehousing needs of food property users and owners across the entire United States. Throughout his time spent in the food industry, Sam has developed an extensive network and database of relationships that allows him to provide the highest quality service to fulfill his clients’ needs in a timely and professional manner.
Cater Corley joins the Food Advisory Services team as an Associate and specializes in connecting food industry users and real estate partners with the valuable services offered by Colliers. Additionally, she provides transactional support and management to help the team quickly facilitate deals.
Prior to joining Colliers, Cater spent nearly two years with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) as an Analyst and later, as an Associate with the Industrial team, focusing on tenant representation in the NE submarket of Atlanta. As an Analyst, Cater provided financial and market analysis, property surveys, competitive set database management, property tours and other real estate support functions. Prior to JLL, Cater gained experience in refrigerated supply chain and logistics, brokering freight for Coyote Logistics (owned by UPS).
Cater is a graduate of Davidson College where she received her Bachelor of Arts. She is a licensed real estate salesperson in the state of Georgia.