Professional Experience
Ben, a Vice President with CBRE, leverages over 20 years of commercial real estate experience in behalf of landlords and tenants in South Carolina. Ben specializes in industrial property sales, leasing and Investment Properties. Ben leads the Industrial Team in the Columbia market.
Since the year 2000 he has closed over 350 transactions for a total sales volume of over $300 million, involving over 10 million square feet.
- Created CompeteSC to successfully amend S.288 (Point of Sale Law)
- State of South Carolina – Comprehensive Property Valuation, Strategic Plan & Implementation Report
- State of South Carolina – Surplus Property dispositions statewide ($23 million in sales)
- State of South Carolina – Port Royal disposition
- McClatchy Company 265,000 square foot sale leaseback
- Development of 132 acre Industrial park in Partnership with City of Columbia
- Acquisition/demolition and repurpose of 330,000 sf former textile factory
Sales Transactions
- Conso Products | ±330,000 SF
- Shop Road Holdings | ±132 Acres
- Enterprise Park (investment) | ±139,000 SF
- State of South Carolina | ±45 acres
- Carquest (investment) | ±111,000 SF
- Former Bose Facility | ±475,000 SF
- 201 Flint Lake | ±122,000 SF
Lease Transactions
- RR Donnelly | ±110,000 SF
- Lion Vallen | ±580,000 SF
- Wabtec | ±78,000 SF
- ABC Supply | ±47,000 SF
- Mondolez Bakery | ±70,000 SF
Professional Affiliations/Accreditations
- 2010 Realtor of the Year
- Past President, Board of Directors, Central Carolina Realtors Association
- 2003 Transaction of the Year (Cingular Wireless)
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
- Palmetto Children’s Hospital Board of Directors
Education
- The University of South Carolina, Bachelor of Science
Clients
- AT&T
- Batesville Casket
- Carrier
- Cintas
- Daltile
- Ferguson Enterprises
- GE Healthcare
- Home Depot
- LDJ Global Strategies
- Lion-Vallen
- Lularoe
- Ram Tool
- Mohawk
- Parsons
- Raytheon
- Select Comfort
- Sprint
- Schneider Electric
- US Foods
- Wabtec
- State of South Carolina
- UNITS Storage