Mark Podlin Joins Hodnett Cooper Real Estate's Commercial Sales & Leasing Division as an Associate Broker

Throughout his 30 year career in the shopping center and regional mall development business, Mark Podlin has personally met and negotiated retail store real estate and development deals throughout the United States with the chairmen of Sak's Fifth Avenue, Sears, Dillard's, Macy's, JC Penney, and more. We are pleased to announce that he has recently joined Hodnett Cooper Real Estate, Inc. in Brunswick, Georgia.

Brunswick, Georgia (PRWEB) May 14, 2009 -- Throughout his 30 year career in the shopping center and regional mall development business, Mark Podlin has personally met and negotiated retail store real estate and development deals throughout the United States with the chairmen of Sak's Fifth Avenue, Sears, Dillard's, Macy's, JC Penney, and more. We are pleased to announce that he has recently joined Hodnett Cooper Real Estate, Inc. in Brunswick, Georgia.

Mark comes to Hodnett Cooper from Tampa, where he served as Senior Development Officer and Vice President of Asset Management for DeBartolo Development. During the great shopping center expansion period from the 1960's through the 1990's, the Edward J. DeBartolo Company was the largest shopping center developer in the world. Edward DeBartolo, Jr., owner of the San Francisco 49ers for 5 Superbowl wins, is the Chairman of DeBartolo Development, where Mark led his shopping center development group in designing and developing new major shopping center projects across the country, and personally negotiated anchor department store deals, acquired major tracts of land for development, obtained government entitlements, and supervised construction and leasing from project inception through grand opening. His most recent major deal was in Las Vegas where his work in attracting Bloomingdale's as the anchor store to The Plaza Las Vegas resulted in the highest purchase price for land on the Las Vegas Strip -- $1.2 Billion Dollars, which Elad Properties paid Phil Ruffin, the former owner of the Frontier Casino.

Throughout his 30 year career in the shopping center and regional mall development business, Mark has personally met and negotiated retail store real estate and development deals throughout the United States with the chairmen of Sak's Fifth Avenue, Sears, Dillard's, Macy's, JC Penney, Kohl's, Parisian, Belk, Montgomery Ward, as well as major store deals with Neiman-Marcus, Nordstrom, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Woolworth, McRae's, Castner-Knott, The May Company, Best Buy, Dick's Sporting Goods, Michael's, Staples, Petsmart, and many of the other well known stores we all shop.

Interestingly, Mark was educated as an actor and a lawyer, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and then a Juris Doctorate from UGA. Over the past thirty years, he has held an eclectic mix of corporate attorney and real estate positions, carrying him from Atlanta to Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, and beyond. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker in New York, Illinois, and Georgia, and was admitted to the bar in all three states, as well. Because of this broad background, Mark Podlin brings to Hodnett Cooper a unique combination of expertise and experience. As head of their commercial group, his skills in management, acquisition, leasing, sales, financing and brokerage, paired with his knowledge of development and redevelopment, are certain to prove invaluable assets to both company and clients.

"Coming back to the Golden Isles is coming home for me, since I graduated from Glynn Academy in 1971," Podlin states. "In fact, it was in 1970 when, fresh from my summer at the Governor's Honor's acting program, I first met the Hodnett family." Ann Hodnett was producing The Lion in Winter at the Island Players, and the young aspiring actor landed a part in the play. "I was star struck - not just with the play, but with the whole Hodnett family, and now here I am, a part of Hodnett Cooper!" When Podlin is not brokering real estate, he likes to visit real estate around the world. His most recent trips have carried him to Tokyo, Rome, and Egypt, and he plans to take his son, Hunter, to Egypt and Greece this summer.

Mark will be in the Mainland Office, adjacent to the Glynn Place Mall at 11 Trade Street in Brunswick, Georgia.

Hodnett Cooper Real Estate's commercial sales and leasing division offers local expertise in the growing Coastal Georgia retail and office space markets. Our professional and experienced commercial real estate group services Saint Simons Island, Jekyll Island, Brunswick's Historic Downtown, the Colonial Mall Shopping District, Saint Marys, and Darien.

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