Retail Services

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.
 

Kate Morrisroe works as the Marketing Manager, Retail Services for the U.S. Working  closely with Anjee Solanki and the U.S. Retail team, Kate works to further enhance the platforms capabilities in business development and marketing strategy. 

Kate joined Colliers in 2018 in Chicago and most recently served as the Business Analyst to a net lease investment team where she supported client relations including transaction management, developed all marketing and business development deliverables to win new business, and managed the team’s social media and research initiatives. 

A graduate of The University of Alabama, Kate earned her degree in Business Finance with a specialization in Real Estate. 

Prior to joining Colliers, I worked as a marketing coordinator for a real estate firm in Atlanta. Additionally, I have worked for a real estate law firm tracking documents and attending sales closings.

Todd Scheffler brings over 35 years experience in all areas of real estate to Colliers International but his expertise is commercial retail property.  He began his career as a project architect and designer working for several notable architectural firms in Chicago specializing in shopping centers. As an architect, Todd helped design, plan, and build numerous shopping centers, retail buildings, stores, and other commercial projects throughout the country. Through this experience, he became interested in the science and psychology of retail business and consumer behavior. This led to his practicing real estate with the desire to understand how buildings function not just structurally, but economically and financially as well. Todd worked with several notable real estate firms acquiring, analyzing, developing, redeveloping, leasing, and managing real estate assets totaling over $1bn.

Before joining Colliers, Todd was as Director of Real Estate for Macy’s, Inc; managing all real estate business for 135 stores, offices, fulfillment centers, and other support businesses. Prior to this responsibility, he was the Director of Site Development for Federated Department Stores overseeing all development for the company’s 650 property portfolio. During the last two years of his tenure with Macy’s, he helped develop an initiative to methodically analyze all Macy’s real estate for value-creating opportunities and/or disposition equaling over $500M in incremental value to the company.

Todd’s role at Colliers is to help expand the business by offering clients new and alternative ways to reposition the commercial retail property. Todd’s combined experience as both an architect and real estate analyst provides Colliers with a unique ‘left/right’ brain approach to solve problems and expedite solutions for clients across the country. Todd envisions without limitation, expanding and integrating national and local databases of information including GIS, employing financial modeling early in the feasibility process, focusing on opportunity zones and shifting markets, and exploring innovative ways to transform and reposition assets.​

As national director of GIS & Mapping for Colliers, Cliff Plank is responsible for the strategic planning, management, development and implementation of GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

GIS & Mapping is a full-service international geographic consulting group located in the Phoenix office, which provides GIS products, services and data to Colliers’ professionals and clients.

Cliff’s expertise is in analyzing business needs, and developing effective solutions and business intelligence based on cutting-edge technology, information and ingenuity.

With an exceptional focus on customer service, Cliff emphasizes innovation and efficiency to develop well-capitalized geographic information systems that maximize tangible value to Colliers’ clients. He is a results-oriented industry leader, with a unique ability to bridge the gap between client needs and supporting technology and systems.

Cliff has worked in the commercial real estate industry since 1996. He is passionate about excellence, customer service, problem solving and innovation in his work and that of his team.

He has a strong data and technology background, implementing and managing GIS departments and platforms that have proven to be invaluable assets to internal and external clients throughout his career.

As the National Research Manager for Retail Services, I am responsible for studying conditions within the retail sector, collecting and reporting statistical data, and analyzing the data to identify significant trends and opportunities. I am involved with national pitches and pursuits, leading the quarterly National Retail Report, and educating brokers on an array of retail research tools like Restaurant Bytes and Creditintell.   

Based in South Florida, I have been in the commercial real estate industry since 2014, am bilingual in Spanish, and hold a Florida Real Estate Sales Associate License. 

I previously worked as a Senior Research Analyst in the Miami office of Colliers International South Florida where I managed a platform of comprehensive commercial real estate data, information resources, research, and training to support the sales and marketing efforts of the South Florida team. I was responsible for the collection, maintenance, and preparation of data across all property types required for writing quarterly statistical reports, graphs, and charts. My expertise in both leasing and investment sales ranged across multiple asset types including retail, industrial, office, and multifamily.  

Prior to joining Colliers, I was a Compliance Specialist at Orlando-based FBC Mortgage, where I provided guidance to originators regarding disclosures and assistance in the interpretation of federal, state, and industry regulations. I began my real estate career as a Retail Services Intern with BishopBeale in Orlando which required me to analyze market conditions, conduct competitive research to identify new opportunities, and project management for multiple sites across Florida.   

A resourceful, innovative and passionate marketing professional with a proven successful track record who has more than 16 years of experience in commerical real estate. As an accomplished marketing leader, I am highly regarded for accomplishments in planning and leading comprehensive marketing strategies, managing complex projects, and delivering superior client service. I am currently the marketing and operatoins manager for retail services at  Colliers, servicing more than 550 retail professionals.

Prior  to Colliers, I was the senior communications point person for CBRE San Diego where  I develop and execute superior marketing strategies that aligned with business goals across traditional and non‐traditional media; create/distribute press releases with a record average coverage rate of 98 percent. Before accepting the CBRE role, I was  at ICSC for seven years as their research services manager where I over saw global and national events. I also managed managed all creative aspects of the department’s products, services, and programs as well as providing strategic marketing direction for the products through social media, electronic newsletters, e‐mail blasts and other services.