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The Macerich Co., Santa Monica, Calif., has appointed Jeffrey Bedell to the position of vice president of energy management. Bedell, who holds the Association of Energy Engineers Certified Energy Manager designation, comes to Macerich with more than 13 years of experience in the energy industry.

Michael A. Pollack

Mesa, Ariz.-based real estate developer and entrepreneur Michael A. Pollack has been honored by Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R.-Ariz.) with an entry into the U.S. Congressional Record, an official document of congressional proceedings and debates published daily when Congress is in session. Pollack is the founder and president of Michael A. Pollack Real Estate Investments. Hayworth honored him for community involvement and his commercial redevelopment efforts. Pollack has contributed generously to local causes, including the Chandler Service Club and several local high schools. Michael A. Pollack Real Estate Investments is one of Arizona’s largest independently owned commercial real estate companies.

 

Werner Escher

Werner Escher, executive director of domestic and international markets for South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, Calif., has received the first-ever Shopping Tourism Leader of the Year award. Escher was honored during the Shop America Conference. He was selected because he is a pioneering leader in shopping tourism and for his vision in defining, aggressively marketing, and bringing shopping into the mix of activities that can be used to market the U.S. travel experience.

Thomas D. Bell Jr.

Cousins Properties, Atlanta, has named Thomas D. Bell Jr. president and CEO. Bell has previously served as vice chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the executive committee. He brings experience in corporate management, governance and leadership in both the public and private sector to Cousins in his new role. He most recently served as a senior advisor to Credit Suisse First Boston, overseeing the company’s real estate activities. Before that he spent 10 years at Young & Rubicam, where he served as chairman and CEO.

Daniel Millman

Center Trust, Manhattan Beach, Calif., has promoted Daniel Millman to the position of vice president of leasing and asset management. In his new capacity, Millman will be responsible for the company’s regional malls. Millman had served as the company’s director of leasing and asset management. He joined Center Trust in 1994 as general manager of Media City Center in Burbank, Calif.

Rick Drogosz

Mid-America Real Estate Group, Oak Brook Terrace, Ill., has announced seven executive changes.

Rick Drogosz was promoted from vice president to partner in the firm’s investment sales group. Kay Nelson moves up from vice president to partner in Mid-America’s asset management division. Felicia Harrison was promoted to vice president from senior asset manager. Amy Bryant moves up from senior leasing agent to vice president. Mike Peirce was promoted from sales associate to vice president in the tenant representation division. Rashel Campbell and Lisa Gryzik were each promoted to asset managers.

Fredrica Thode

HDOS Enterprises, parent company of Hot Dog on a Stick, Muscle Beach Lemonade and Juicy Lucy’s, has appointed Fredrica “Freddie” Thode as president. Thode has been with the Carlsbad, Calif.-based firm for 21 years. In her new role her responsibilities will include handling day-to-day operations. She had most recently served as HDOS’ executive vice president.

Butch Jagoda

Helzberg Diamonds, Kansas City, Mo., has appointed two employees to its executive committee. Butch Jagoda has been promoted to vice president of information technology. He joined the company in 1996 as divisional vice president for information technology, following a 26-year career in IT, including positions at Stanley Tool and KFC Corp. In his new role, Jagoda will be responsible for all of the company’s IT functions.

Mitch Maggart

Mitch Maggart has been promoted to vice president of store operations. Maggart joined Helzberg in 1989 and most recently served as its divisional vice president of store operations. In his new positions he will oversee the entire store operations team.

 

Perkowitz + Ruth Architects (P+R), Long Beach, Calif., has named Edmond Classen as an associate. He serves as specifications writer and is responsible for the preparation of project manuals and specifications for the firm’s many diverse projects. Classen joined P+R in 1988 as job captain.

 

The Rouse Co., Columbia, Md., announced that it has appointed two new vice presidents. Robert Edwards has been named vice president and chief information officer and Jeffrey C. Palkovitz has been named vice president and associate general counsel. Edwards oversees strategic systems planning and implementation of tactical and strategic technologies. He joined Rouse in October 2001.

Palkovitz is responsible for all corporate legal matters including employment issues, public offering and public disclosure matters. He joined Rouse in 1989 as assistant general counsel and was promoted to senior assistant general counsel in 1995 and to associate general counsel and assistant secretary in 2001.

Gerald Geddis

Dallas-based Fixture Perfect International (FPI) has announced the appointment of Gerald Geddis as COO. Geddis brings extensive management and retail experience to the company, including nine years with Blockbuster Entertainment, where he served as president and COO. Geddis will oversee FPI’s operations division, and his team will include logistics, operations, retail services, merchandising and sourcing departments. According to the company, FPI is a national turnkey resource for in-house program management, store and fixture design, automated sourcing, site survey and CAD services, logistics management and consolidation, store and fixture installation, and retail merchandising. FPI counts several top-name retailers among its list of repeat clients, including Kenneth Cole, CompUSA, Polo Jeans Co., Verizon and Kinko’s.

Davey Rodgers

Jim Wilson & Associates, Montgomery, Ala., has announced that it has added Davey Rodgers to its staff as a financial analyst. Rodgers is responsible for analysis of the company and its real estate portfolio. He is a graduate of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., and the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Steven Jamieson

Veteran retail and real estate executive Steven Jamieson, CSM, has been named general manager of The Mall at Millenia, Orlando, Fla. His responsibilities will include developing the new center’s management team and preparing for the grand opening on Oct. 18, 2002. Once the center debuts, he will oversee operations.

Jamieson brings 19 years of retail and shopping center management experience to The Mall at Millenia. Most recently, he served as general manager of Orlando Fashion Square, a 1.1 million-square-foot super-regional mall. He has also held mall manager and assistant mall manager positions at shopping centers in South Carolina, Texas, Kansas and at the Mall of America, Bloomington, Minn.

Thomas J. Drought Jr.

Glimcher Development Corp., an affiliate of Columbus, Ohio-based Glimcher Realty Trust, has promoted Thomas J. (T.J.) Drought Jr. to the position of senior vice president, director of leasing. In his new capacity, Drought is responsible for directing and overseeing the leasing efforts for Glimcher’s entire portfolio. He joined Glimcher Realty Trust in 1997 and held the positions of regional leasing director and then vice president of leasing. Prior to joining Glimcher, Drought worked for Chicago-based Landau & Heyman Ltd. for nine years.

 

Passco Real Estate Enterprises, Santa Ana, Calif., has hired Judy A. Munyon as regional property manager for Southern California. In her new role, she will oversee the management of the Southern California segment of Passco’s 2 million-square-foot real estate portfolio.

Prior to joining Passco, Munyon was executive property manager for Seligman Western Enterprises working as an on-site manager and leasing agent for retail and industrial complexes in Orange County.

 

Andrew R. Witherell

Andrew R. Witherell, a former vice president of Chicago-based Mid-America Real Estate Group, has opened his own brokerage company, Witherell Real Estate. The firm specializes in retail properties located in Chicago’s Westside and Southside neighborhoods.

 

Carolina Place mall, Pineville, N.C., has named Meredith Burris Keeler to the position of marketing director. She succeeds Rocell Melohn. Keeler had served as regional sales manager for Racing Champions South, Charlotte, N.C., and has four years of experience in marketing and sales with such national accounts as Pep Boys and Kroger.

Keeler graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1997. Carolina Place is owned and managed by General Growth Properties.

 

Glimcher Realty Trust has promoted Clare Calabrese, CMD, to the position of vice president of marketing. Her responsibilities include corporate marketing, public relations and overseeing the development and implementation of marketing plans for the company’s portfolio of properties including Glimcher’s newest development, Polaris Fashion Place.

Calabrese joined Glimcher Realty Trust in 1998 as director of shopping center marketing. In that position, she was responsible for corporate marketing and public relations plus management of shopping center marketing plans and budgets for the company’s regional, super-regional and value megamall properties. She has worked more than 19 years in the shopping center industry, having held the positions of regional vice president of marketing for General Growth Properties in Minneapolis and vice president of marketing with DeBartolo in Youngstown, Ohio.

 

The CORE Network has named Mickey Griffin as its 2002 president. The CORE Network is an international commercial real estate organization consisting of more than 100 firms, and is ranked as the sixth-largest brokerage company in the United States by National Real Estate Investor magazine, with total investment sales and leasing transactions totaling $17.7 billion in 2001. Griffin is director of corporate services for Montgomery, Ala.-based Aronov Realty Co.

 

Apex Property Exchange, Hanover, Mass., has hired Thomas St. Jean as vice president for advisory services. St. Jean comes to Apex with 10 years of experience structuring transactions in the institutional real estate arena. He most recently led the Capital Markets Group at AEW. Prior to that he was a vice president in Robertson Stephens’ Real Estate Investment Banking unit. St. Jean’s primary focus at Apex is on designing, managing, and developing comprehensive like-kind exchange programs for clients engaged in real estate transactions.

 

Canpro Investments, Montreal, has hired Henry Topas as executive vice president. Topas was formerly senior vice president at another major Canadian real estate firm where he was responsible for the operation of major retail properties.

He brings over 30 years of experience to Canpro Investments.

 

As part of its efforts to reinforce its acquisitions staff, Rockville, Md.-based Federal Realty Investment Trust, has promoted Jeff Berkes to the position of senior vice president of strategic transactions. In addition, the company has hired Ron Cappello as senior director of acquisitions.

 

Dallas-based Coyote Management has named Lisa Hunt-Ingram as marketing director for Metrocenter Mall, Jackson, Miss. Ingram has more than 10 years of public relations, tourism and marketing experience in the Jackson market. Prior to joining Coyote she was associate manager of tourism at the Mississippi Division of Tourism. Ingram will oversee all Metrocenter Mall promotions, events and advertising. She will also work directly with merchants to increase sales.

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