Brant Bernet
Senior Vice President
Professional Experience
Associated Office
Brant Bernet joined CBRE in 2012 as a Senior Vice President in the Brokerage Services group and leads the Data Center Solutions team in North Texas. Mr. Bernet brings over 34 years of diversified real estate experience to CBRE.
Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Bernet was a Principal with Trammell Crow Company (TCC) in Dallas, where he was instrumental in developing tenant representation and data center site selection best practices and was a consistent top producer. He left TCC in 2006 to start Rackhouse Group, a tenant-based real estate brokerage company focused on national data center site selection and consulting. During the past 28 years, Mr. Bernet has been responsible for many of the most significant data center/critical facility expansions in the country.
- Southern Methodist University, Bachelor of Arts
- Co-Founder/Managing Director, Rackhouse Group, LLC
- Co-Founder, MyRackFinder.com
- Rise School of Dallas, Board of Directors
- Salesmanship Club of Dallas
- Founder, The Bernet Company, Corporate Real Estate
- CBRE Data Center Solutions, North Texas Leader
- CBRE Data Center Solutions, Advisory Council Member
- Top Producer, Lincoln Property Company (1999 – 3rd Nationally, 2000 – 2nd Nationally, 2004 Deal of the Year, 2012 – 1st nationally)
- National Site Selection, Multiple Sites
JPMC
25+ MW | 320 Acres - Regional Site Selection
Charles Schwab
5 MW | 40 Acres - Regional Site Selection, Multiple Sites
EdgeCore
30+ Acres - Regional Site Selection
CyrusOne
+25 MW | 500,000 SF - Regional Portfolio Site Selection and Leasing
Equinix
30+ MW | 300,000+ SF - National Portfolio Leasing
Verizon
18 MW | 300,000 SF - Regional Portfolio
Softlayer/IBM Cloud
18 MW | 150,000 SF - National Site Selection
Traveler’s Insurance
6 MW | 150,000 SF
- National Portfolio Site Selection and Leasing
Windstream
5 MW | 100,000 SF - Regional Colocation, Multiple Sites
Express-Scripts
3 MW | 25,000 SF - Regional Site Selection
Rackspace
2.25 MW | 20,000 SF - National Leasing, 2 Markets
Epsilon
1 MW | 10,000 SF - National Portfolio, National Selection and Leasing
MCI/WorldCom
200+ Transactions - Regional Portfolio, Leasing and Dispositions
CenturyLink/Level 3
70+ Transactions - National Scope, Multiple Sites
Verio
Data Center Disposition
- ARBY Partners
- Baylor Healthcare
- Belo Corporation
- Cable & Wireless
- CapRock Communications
- Davaco, Inc.
- EdgeCore
- Epsilon
- Levi Strauss
- MCI, Inc.
- Orbital Sciences
- Perot Systems
- Rackspace, Inc.
- Charles Schwab Corp.
- Travelers
- Verizon
- Vinson & Elkins
- Waste Management
- Windstream, Inc.
- Winstar Wireless
- WorldCom, Inc.
Overview
CBRE’s Dallas-based Data Center Solutions (the “Team”) blends its relevant transaction experience with CBRE’s best-in-class international real estate platform. On behalf of its clients, the Team uses its deep understanding of both traditional real estate and its knowledge of the technical aspects of data center construction and finance to obtain optimal transaction economics. The Team’s proprietary Data Center Dashboard provides clients with unparalleled market insight and best practices. As the team's best-practice library and Dashboard are constantly evolving, their innovative approach to deal process and financial analysis has become an industry standard. The Team has completed transactions in more than 60 U.S. markets and has closed a spectrum of critical facility assignments that range from 50kW to multiple MW. This Dallas-based Team has the right experience, platform and process to solve any of your data center needs.
Featured Clients
- Atos
- Baylor
- Samsung
- Pepsico
- LPL Financial
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- Sprint
- Lowe's
- Comerica
- Level 3 Communications
- Equinix
- Verizon
- Windstream
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