Thomas W. Turner, SIOR, serves as a Senior Managing Director in 星空体育app下载’s Charlotte office where he specializes in the leasing and sale of industrial properties throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Prior to joining 星空体育app下载, Turner was a Partner and Senior Vice President at Hart Corporation, one of the nation’s leading brokers of large industrial facilities in non-metropolitan markets. Turner works as a regional broker with a team of professionals who also joined 星空体育app下载 from Hart Corporation in March of 2015. Throughout his 33-years of service, his focus has been on assisting industrial clients in the site selection process as well as the disposition of industrial properties.
Turner has extensive experience in all facets of industrial real estate resulting in over 1,000 transactions involving millions of square feet of industrial space worth over $1.0 billion. His experience includes development deals and site selection work as an owner’s representative for both build-to-suit transactions and build-lease transactions, sale-leasebacks, 1031 Exchanges, economic development incentive negotiations, contingent liability risk management transfer transactions, “value add” investment transactions, controlled sales, traditional consulting assignments and the conception, design and marketing of numerous speculative industrial shell building projects for economic development IRS 501 (C) (3) organizations, electric utilities and private developers.
Turner has been sought out as a speaker and presenter by:
- IndustryWeek/Expansion Management magazine
- North Carolina Department of Revenue
- North Carolina Economic Developers Association
- The South Carolina Economic Development Institute
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
- Southern Economic Development Council
- North Carolina Property Tax Commission
Professional Achievements:
- Largest Building Size Transaction, Hart Group International, 2004
- Largest Building Size Transaction, Hart Group International, 2006
- Largest Dollar Volume Transaction, Hart Group International, 2009
- CoStar Group Power Broker - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Partial Client List:
- American Commercial, Inc. (now Mikasa)
- American Koyo/JTEKT
- Ardagh Group S.A.
- Ball Corporation
- Continental North America Inc.
- Dayco Products
- DNP America
- Elkay Manufacturing Company
- Exxon Chemical
- GKN
- ILJIN American Corp.
- Intertape Polymer Corp.
- Kawai
- Konica Minolta
- Matsushita Corporation
- McCall Farms
- Niagara Bottling, LLC
- Robert Bosch Corporation
- RTI International Metals, Inc.
- Ruiz Food Products, Inc.
- Shamrock Food Company
- SKF USA, Inc.
- Springs Global US Inc.
- Springs Industries
- Technimark
- Volvo Mack Trucks
Professional Achievements:
- Power Broker, CoStar Group, 2008 - 2011
- Largest Dollar Volume Transaction, Hart Group International, 2009
- Largest Building Size Transaction, Hart Group International, 2004 and 2006
Personal Affiliations:
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR 2006-Present)
- Alumnus of the North Carolina Department of Commerce (1985-1988)
- Former Vice Chairman, Mecklenburg County Industrial and Pollution Control Financing Authority
- Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors
- North Carolina Economic Developers Association - Board of Directors, 1999 - 2002
- South Carolina Economic Developers Association
- Southern Economic Development Council
- Former Alumni Board Member, Carlisle School, Martinsville, VA
- Real Estate broker’s license in NC, SC, VA and WV
Education:
Turner earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Washington and Lee University where he majored in journalism and minored in economics.