UPCOMING EVENTS

Mark is Founder and President of BBX Logistics Properties and has direct oversight and accountability for all day-to-day operations of the firm.

Mark has over 25 years of experience in ascending leadership roles with many of the nation’s largest private and public real estate companies, including Prologis and Opus. Over the course of his career, Mark has directly invested in or overseen $7 billion of capital deployment and development. Prior to his founding of BBX Logistics Properties, Mark was Head of Investments at Hilco Redevelopment Partners.

Mark brings a highly-disciplined approach to real estate development and investment, having extensive experience in the nation’s top logistics markets. His deep market relationships and experience creates a major point of differentiation for the firm.

David serves as a Principal on the Development & Investments group for Foundry Commercial, helping the day to day efforts of on-going development projects in South Florida with Ted Elam. He is also charged with pursuing new development and acquisition opportunities.

David began his career on the project management side of Foundry Commercial, initially starting as a Senior Project Manager and quickly working his way to Vice President of the South Florida Development & Investments Team. He helped lead the three phase Carrie Meek International Business Park project which was a 2,685,000 SF quasi-public private partnership with Miami-Dade County and Miami-Dade Aviation Department. 

Prior to joining Foundry Commercial, David was the Vice President of Development at Gibson Development Partners where he oversaw and ran the development operations for the company. This included multiple industrial, retail, office and restaurant projects.

Alex Vargas Vila joined Prologis in April 2023 and is responsible for all capital deployment activities within the state of Florida. Prior to his role with Prologis as Investment Officer, Mr. Vargas Vila held roles as Vice President for East Group Properties (NYSE: EGP) leading all industrial acquisition, development, and asset management for their South Florida portfolio. Prior to that, Alex served as Director of Acquisitions and Dispositions for Flagler Development, a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group, where he worked on various projects including the development of industrial parks, monetization of non-core land holdings, and acquisitions of mixed-use TOD sites to serve as rail stations for Brightline, a new passenger rail service in Florida connecting Miami to Orlando. Over his 10+ year career, Alex's work experience has focused on opportunities to create value either through acquisitions and dispositions, industrial land development, and creation of new companies and operating entities. Alex earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Real Estate Development, both from the University of Miami and is a member of National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP).

Chris Metzger joined the Cushman & Wakefield Fort Lauderdale office in 1983 to form the industrial and land department.

He is now one of South Florida’s leading commercial/industrial sales and leasing agents. Mr. Metzger serves as Executive Managing Director of South Florida Industrial Team which includes Rick Etner, Christopher Thomson, Matthew McAllister, Eric Cantor, Julie Miller, and Katie Bowie.

They dominate the South Florida industrial and land market. He holds an SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS) designation, and has been the top producing industrial broker in Cushman & Wakefield's Fort Lauderdale office every year since 1984.

Tom O’Loughlin has earned a reputation of being one of the top performing brokers in South Florida. As a trusted advisor, Tom has fostered relationships with our market’s top brokers making sure they deliver quality tenants to his client’s buildings. Tom is exceptional at understanding client’s needs, the obstacles they wish to overcome and creating a clear plan to succeed in surpassing all goals. A relative encyclopedia of market knowledge, building owners and businesses, not many brokers know our market better. Tom’s goal is to foster his client relationships and become their trusted advisors while delivering superior results regardless of the size or complexity of the transaction.

Tom focuses on sales and leasing of industrial, flex, land, call centers and development sites throughout South Florida. He also holds the prestigious CCIM designation and is an active member of CBRE’s Industrial Advisory Council — a select national group of professionals gathering and evaluating business intelligence to develop comprehensive business strategies for CBRE.

George Pino, SIOR, RPA, possesses over 26 years of real estate brokerage, land development and property management experience. His direct knowledge touches on every aspect of commercial real estate including representation of both sellers and purchasers in office, industrial and vacant land.  Mr. Pino has an excellent track record of building long lasting relationships with each of his clients and has been involved in some of the largest lease and sale transactions and land purchases in South Florida.  Throughout his career, he has generated over $1.75 billion in sales and over 26 million square feet in leasing transactions.

As President at State Street Realty, Mr. Pino has been and is currently responsible for the successful and expedient lease-up and sales of office and industrial real estate including Beacon Centre Business Park (1.8 million SF), Airport Business Industrial Center (530,000 SF), Blue Lagoon Business Park (325,000 SF), Beacon Tradeport Industrial Park (3.1 million SF), Miami Industrial Business Park (85,000 SF), Westside Office Plaza (500,000 SF), Transal Office Park (150,000 SF), Miami International Logistics Center (650,000 SF), and Carrie Meek Industrial Park (300,000 SF).  Additionally, he  was responsible for the leasing and marketing of the new Beacon Lakes Industrial Park project (6 million SF).