Industrial

AREA OF EXPERTISE

In Anjee’s current role, as National Retail Director for the USA, she has developed strong relationships and strategic leadership to over 500 + retail professional nationally across 140 markets within Colliers for Investment Sales, Agency, Retailer Rep, and Retail Asset & Property Management.

Anjee Solanki brings 30 years of focused retail real estate experience to Colliers International.  She provides strategic retail advisory services to enhance value for her clients with her expertise in lifestyle, community, power center, neighborhood, mixed-use retail/residential, and resort retail. 

She has developed and manages strong working relationships with institutional and private clients such as State of Florida, State of Michigan, Heitman, Invesco, Grosvenor Americas, American Realty Advisors, TH Realty, PNC, and Zurich to name a few.

Her strategy identifies current market and property inefficiencies to capture untapped value through asset repositioning, releasing, redevelopment, rehabilitation, proactive management, and enhanced marketing. 

Creative problem-solving is her specialty, and she becomes a key stakeholder with national and international retailers, such as JPMC, Opry City Stage/Ole Red and Tim Hortons, and many others. Her highly focused approach reduces the risk profile and provides clients with a thoughtful approach executing strategic multi-year planning initiatives. 

BUSINESS BACKGROUND

Previously, Anjee served as Executive Vice President, Retail Services for Madison Marquette. She successfully assisted with repositioning community centers to lifestyle projects and identified opportunities to create value, resulting in higher returns for her clients. She also provided strategic analysis on complex redevelopment projects to address both the asset’s financial stabilization and/or the client’s exit strategy

BLOG

Anjee continues to be an insatiable collector of all things retail. She’s a student of culture living next door to future shoppers, whose fleeting trends constantly change the retail landscape … driving retailers, landlords and developers crazy! Read her Blog at:  https://knowledge-leader.colliers.com/author/anjee-solanki 

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Anjee is originally from Southern California and currently resides in San Francisco.  She is active in the Rincon Hill neighborhood residential improvement group, which participates in the public review of the highly anticipated Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.
 

Brewster Smith leads the Supply Chain Solutions team for Colliers' Occupier Services group.  He is a supply chain consulting leader focused on developing and implementing solutions for OPEX reduction and service improvement. Over the course of his career, he has helped clients to identify and / or achieve $141 million in logistics related cost savings. Brewster’s functional specializations include supply chain network optimization, site selection, transportation strategy, distribution center design, inventory targeting, 3PL strategic sourcing and robotics / automation evaluation. In his 22 years of experience as a supply chain practitioner, Brewster has advised, 60+ organizations on 3 different continents in both the private and public sectors.  Prior to Colliers, Brewster held management positions with Penske Logistics, Accenture, Tompkins International and TriVista.  He received a  BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

Amanda Ortiz is the Director, National Industrial Research on the National Marketing & Research team at Colliers. Based in Chicago, Amanda partners with national and local teams to deliver market intelligence initiatives and provide direction to drive national competitive advantage through research strategy, development and analytics.

Amanda possesses comprehensive experience in both database management and trend analysis. Her knowledge of the macro and micro factors affecting the commercial real estate market results in proactively positioned research.

Meiyi Tang joined Colliers in 2021 as the Marketing Manager for U.S. Industrial Services. Meiyi's role is to strategically market the Colliers' Industrial platform and service the 600+ industrial professionals. She previously worked at Newmark’s Global Corporate Services in  marketing and business development , where she led the development of solutions material such as proposals and presentations. Prior to Newmark, she worked as the Creative Manager at Marcus Millichap, overseeing marketing strategies for a team of retail and office investment brokers.