Craig Smith of Ashlar Urban To Moderate RealLeasing Session
Expert in Unlocking Value in ‘Fringe and Character’ Buildings will lead session on Repositioning Older Office Buildings at 8th Annual RealLeasing Conference in Toronto
Toronto, Ontario (August 19, 2009) –Craig Smith, Founder and President of Ashlar Urban Realty Inc., a full service commercial real estate firm in Toronto, Ontario, will moderate the session ‘Repositioning Older Office Buildings: What strategies can you use to complete with new ones?’ at the RealLeasing conference on September 17, 2009. The 8th annual RealLeasing conference will be a high level executive forum examining the key issues, practices, and strategies in office, industrial and retail real estate leasing. Over 350 owners, property and facility Managers and industry professionals attend the conference.
Mr. Smith has earned a reputation as an expert in historic and character buildings and specializes in investment sales and downtown office leasing in Toronto’s core and periphery areas.
Within the Ashlar Urban leasing portfolio, the firm has assisted its clients in the creation of a vision for retrofitted and forgotten office assets.
“By implementing design suggestions and lease up strategies for historic and previously underperforming assets, Ashlar has brought new and vibrant tendencies to historic buildings that had stagnated in our prosperous city,” says Craig Smith.
“At acquisition, the collective vacancy of our client’s assets was approximately 45%. Through Ashlar’s efforts, this vacancy was compressed to under 5% in just 16 months.”
For more information on the RealLeasing conference please visit http://www.realestateforums.com/realleasing/mission.html
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Ashlar Urban is a full service real estate firm located in Toronto, Ontario and the Toronto area representative for NAI Global, the world’s largest managed network of real estate service-providers comprising 5,000 brokers in 325 offices serving in 55 countries throughout the world. Ashlar Urban’s professionals represent clients in all aspects of commercial real estate including multi-site acquisitions and dispositions, sublease, tenant/landlord representation, lease administration and audit, investment services, due diligence and related consulting and advisory services. To learn more, visit www.ashlarurban.com or call 416 205 9222.
