Sierra Realty Advisors is a retail real estate brokerage company providing new project leasing, tenant representation and investment sales services to clients in the Chicago market and across the U.S. Specific emphasis is on:
- LEASING - Master planning, merchandising and leasing lifestyle and entertainment projects from 25 to 1,000 acres.
- TENANT REPRESENTATION - Providing site selection and analysis services to retailers and restaurateurs expanding throughout Chicago and nationally.
- INVESTMENT SALES - Single net leased and shopping center investment sales services in Chicago and nationally.
Marc Offit, Esq.
Chairman and CEO
Marc formed Sierra Realty Advisors in 2000 following a career at General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP)
where he was a Senior Vice President, Leasing and Asset Management overseeing 12 million square feet of retail space.
This platform and the first hand knowledge of almost every major project through out the country provides Marc
with the vision and insight to take an under performing asset such as a piece of land or existing retail center and
transform it into a burgeoning profitable focal point for it’s owners. His talents for design layout and merchandising
grab the unique asset of each project and help maximize the experience for all who visit it. Using this vast knowledge
he is able to carefully balance symbiotic retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues and he can transform a once quiet
center into busy and profitable. The ability to quarterback a project from a vision, to planning layout and design to
merchandising to opening is a rare talent. Marc is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and The University of
Baltimore School of Law. Marc is a licensed attorney in the State of Maryland and a licensed Illinois Real Estate Broker.
Marc is a Chicago member of the Council of International Restaurant Brokers.
Contact Info:
Marc Offit
(312) 254-0707 Direct
marc@sierraadvisors.com
Robert Rowe
President and Chief Operating Officer
Prior to merging with SRA, Rob formed Commercial Realty and Development, Inc. (CRD) in 1992 and has provided tenant
and landlord representation primarily in the downtown and surrounding Chicago land markets. He has worked with a variety
of developers and tenants on both vertical and traditional developments. Having worked thru the development process on both
the landlord and tenants side he has the unique ability to anticipate and plan for a retailers or restaurateurs needs and
requirements. His coordination and follow up from an owner to an architect and a contractor to tenant offers insight that
can save time money and offer flexibility to a project that is hard to achieve. 15 years of Brokerage experience in Chicago
has provided him great contacts and market knowledge of how Chicago works.
Rob and his team work with a variety of local and major national retailers and high-rise developers. Rob is a graduate of
American University and an active member of the ICSC.
Contact Info:
Robert Rowe
(312) 254-0717 Direct
rob@sierraadvisors.com