CCIM announces Excellence Award winners

The Utah Chapter of CCIM honored more than 40 finalists in 15 award categories and recognized six new and redeveloped projects at its recent 2021 Excellence Awards event in Salt Lake City.

The annual awards program honors professionals within Utah’s commercial real estate industry who exemplify the highest degree of business excellence, as well as highlighting some of the year’s most notable projects and transactions. This year’s event theme was “Stabilizing Forces.”

Recipients for the top sale and lease transactions of the year were awarded in each commercial property type, as were the top producers for each property type.

The top developments of the year and annual Hall of Fame award were also presented. This year’s Hall of Fame recipient is Tom Uriona, recently retired senior director of corporate real estate with Intermountain Healthcare. The event also included four scholarships — funded jointly by Price Real Estate and the Utah CCIM Chapter — awarded to students at the University of Utah.

“We were quite fortunate to hold this year’s Excellence Awards event in person, and it was a wonderful night of celebrating one another’s accomplishments and socializing in person — many of us for the first time since last year’s event” said Jody Jones, Utah CCIM Excellence Awards event chair.

“We realized that in 2020 this event occurred just one week before things began to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we were lucky enough to be one of the first major industry events held since the vaccine has become widely available. We truly appreciate all our sponsors and supporters who were a stabilizing force in keeping our industry strong throughout these unprecedented times and want to congratulate all those who were recognized at this year’s event.”

Honorees include:

• Architectural Firm of the Year: MHTN Architects.

• Architectural Project of the Year: BioFire Manufacturing, FFKR.

• General Contractor of the Year: Okland Construction.

• General Contractor Project of the Year: Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal Redevelopment Program, Holder-Big-D Construction, A Joint Venture.

• Community Lender of the Year (under $75 million) Dale Fisher, Mountain America Credit Union.

• Commercial Mortgage Broker of the Year: Johnny Clawson, The Clawson Group.

• Commercial Lender of the Year (over $75 million): Jeff Holt, Zions Bank Real Estate Banking Group.

• Industrial Broker of the Year: Jarrod Hunt, Colliers International.

• Investment Broker of the Year: Bryce Blanchard, Newmark Knight Frank.

• Multifamily Broker of the Year: Greg Barratt, Berkadia.

• Office Broker of the Year: Brandon Fugal, Colliers International.

• Retail Broker of the Year: Scott Brady, Mountain West Commercial.

• Specialty Broker of the Year: Jonah Hornsby, Windemere/Align Complete Real Estate Services.

• Rookie Broker of the Year: Colum J. Mills, JLL.

• Price CCIM Scholarship Winners: Skyler Blankenfeld, Isabeau Hansen, Tyson Butterfield and Amro Al-Nimri.

The Top Transactions of the Year honorees are:

• Top Industrial Lease of the Year: Inland Real Estate Partners (Rusty Bollow, Ryan Flint and Bobby Stevens of Colliers International representing the tenant).

• Top Industrial Sale of the Year: I-80 Logistics/Westcore (Tom Freeman, Travis Healey and Jeremy Terry of Cushman & Wakefield representing the seller).

• Top Retail Lease of the Year: Fitness Group of Herriman (Brandon Fugal and Josh Smith of Colliers International representing the tenant; Rob Moore, Tyson Moore and Dan Moore of Colliers International representing the landlord).

• Top Retail Sale of the Year: Jordan Square Shopping Center (Chris Hatch and Ty Miller of Legend Partners representing the buyer; Eli Priest of Newmark Knight Frank and Rob Sweeney of Legend Partners representing the seller).

• Top Multifamily Sale of the Year: Hardware Apartments (Eli Mills and Patrick Bodnar of CBRE representing the seller).

• Top Office Lease of the Year: 650 Main – Enerbank USA (Aaron Jones, Todd McLachlan and Roman Bernardo of Newmark Knight Frank representing the landlord and tenant).

• Top Office Sale of the Year: Thanksgiving Station Portfolio (Eli Mills and Patrick Bodnar of CBRE representing the seller).

• Top Specialty Sale of the Year: Cedar Storage Partners LLC (Brandon Olson of Colliers International representing the seller).

• Top Specialty Lease of the Year: The Thackeray Co. (Howard Layton of Colliers International representing the landlord).

Development Winners are:

• Multifamily Development of the Year: Pamela’s Place, Housing Authority of Salt Lake City/Architecture Belgique/Wadman Corp.

• Office Development of the Year: Pluralsight Global Headquarters, Gardner Cos. & Stake Co./MHTN Architects/RAPT Studio/Okland Construction/Layton Construction.

• Industrial Development of the Year: 201 Mountain View Park, Hines/AE Urbia/Big-D Construction.

• Adaptive Reuse Development of the Year: Industry – Salt Lake City, Q Factor/Drumbeat Architects/Makers Line Construction.

• Hospitality Development of the Year: The Advenire, A Marriott Autograph Collection, PEG Cos./ajc architects/Zwick Construction.

• Transformative Development of the Year: Salt Lake City International Redevelopment Program, HOK/MNTN Architects, GSBS Architects, Architectural Nexus, FFKR/Holder – Big-D Construction, A Joint Venture.