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Nick Wibbenmeyer was named manager of investments at Regency Centers’ new regional office in Chicago. Mike Streit also joined that office as senior leasing agent. • Alan J. Lacy has been replaced as Sears Holdings Corp.’s CEO following a decline in second-quarter sales. Aylwin B. Lewis, who was CEO of Kmart before the merger, will take over as CEO. Lacy will stay on as a vice chairman. Sears Chairman Edward S. Lampert will oversee marketing, merchandising and online businesses. • Developers Diversified Realty appointed Christian Melgard regional leasing manager of Caribbean properties. Melgard will oversee 5 million square feet of properties in Puerto Rico. • Addison, Texas-based Coyote Management appointed Gary C. Ogzewalla, CSM, general manager of Crossroads Center, Waterloo, Iowa.

San Francisco-based Pier 39 hired Aaron Sosnowski as partnership marketing sales manager. • Pine Tree Commercial Realty, Lake Bluff, Ill., named Phil Spitz vice president of property management. • Stacie Platt joined Tucker Development Corp., Chicago, as a leasing representative. • Ingrid White joined Charles Dunn Co., Los Angeles, as senior managing director of the retail services group. • DLC Management Corp., Tarrytown, N.Y., appointed William Comeau senior vice president and CFO. Comeau was director of financial reporting at Kimco Realty Corp., New Hyde Park, N.Y. DLC also hired Michael Desmarais, CSM, as vice president of property management. Desmarais was most recently director of property management for the Northeast at New Plan Excel Realty Trust.

Gregory W. Kessel joined North Miami Beach, Fla.-based Equity One as vice president of development. • Whitehall Jewellers named Beryll Raff CEO. Raff takes over from interim chief Lucinda Baier. Raff was senior vice president and general merchandise manager of fine jewelry at J.C. Penney Co. • Shea Properties, Aliso, Viejo, Calif., hired Jon P. Stephani as retail construction director.

Tom Schriber passes baton to Patrick Donahue

Thomas Schriber, who co-founded grocery-anchored shopping center developer Donahue Schriber, will step down from the company at the end of this year. Schriber led the company for more than 35 years, overseeing its transformation to a private REIT in January 1997. He began his career in commercial real estate as a mortgage banker with Coldwell Banker in the late 1960s. He joined John S. Griffith & Co. in 1969, then struck out on his own in 1976 when he and the late Dan Donahue, his colleague at the time, bought John S. Griffith and changed its name. After Schriber’s departure, current president and COO Patrick Donahue will assume the CEO role, according to a press release. Schriber will remain chairman of the board.