Ortiz Named Senior Vice President and Based in Phoenix Office

PHOENIX, Arizona – Colliers International has announced the appointment of data center and digital infrastructure veteran Michael Ortiz as Senior Vice President based in the Phoenix office.

Michael’s return to Colliers was one which made sense on many fronts for the Colliers brand as it continues to focus on expanding the company’s portfolio of innovative technology solutions and strategic global opportunities touching all things digital infrastructure. Michael served within the data center solutions practice team at Colliers spanning 2014-2017.

Michael joins Colliers International Phoenix after spending nearly 5 years with Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) and DuPont Fabros (NYSE: DFT), two of the largest hyperscale data center operators in the U.S., where he served as Senior Asset Manager and Vice President of Acquisitions and site selection.

During his tenure at Digital Realty and DuPont, Michael concentrated his efforts developing multi-tenant and built to suit global hyperscale, client-driven data center projects, as well as becoming a specialist in state tax incentive creation in various emerging markets within the U.S. and data center land site acquisition across the U.S. and Canada. He was part of the portfolio management leadership team at Digital Realty that managed over 10 million square feet of data centers. Prior to Digital Realty Trust, Ortiz held commercial real estate portfolio management roles within the investment banks of JP Morgan, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and Equity Office Properties.

Robert Mulhern, Managing Director of the Phoenix office commented, “Michael’s unique data center skill set and ability to speak multi-languages will serve Colliers well not only in the United States but also in the emerging Latin American marketplace where the migration to cloud computing has just begun. Of the 660 million residents in Latin America, less than 70 percent are connected to the internet and less than 20 percent of corporate enterprise clients are migrated to the cloud”. Source: GSM / Mobile World Congress 2021.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – NAI Horizon is pleased to announce it has promoted two industry professionals within its marketing department, Meg Ohanesian Zemlicka to Director of Marketing and Sabrina Drummond to Marketing Manager.

Zemlicka, a marketing and design expert, was recently hired as NAI Horizon’s Marketing Manager. Drummond recently joined the team as Marketing Coordinator. These promotions are part of NAI’s ongoing marketing and communications strategy to elevate NAI’s brand and the marketing services provided to their agents and clients.

“NAI was fortunate to add Meg and Sabrina to our team earlier this year,” said Terry Martin-Denning, NAI Horizon CEO/Designated Broker. “These promotions recognize their immediate contributions and understanding of our overall marketing vision. I am excited to see what the future holds.”

Zemlicka joined NAI Horizon after holding the Director of Marketing and Member Services role with Arizona Association of Economic Development (AAED). She continues to be an active member of AAED. Prior to joining AAED she was a graphic designer at Northern Arizona University.

Drummond previously worked at Goldwater Bank, NA, in its Depository and Mortgage Division. She was responsible for marketing, corporate communications, onboarding and training, project management and website design on a corporate, branch and individual level.

PHOTO Courtesy of NAI Horizon: Meg Ohanesian Zemlicka (left) and Sabrina Drummond (right)

TUCSON, ARIZONA – Avila Enterprises of Tucson (Juan Roberto Avila, manager) sold the former Shamrock gas station at 1306 West Grant Road in Tucson for $1 million to PARBHU, LLC of Tucson (Sumit Thathi, manager).

Purchased in April for $624,000, the seller was able to resell the property 2 months later.

This high traffic site is at the southeast corner of Grant Road and I-10, the buyer purchased to renovate as a gas station again.  The 1,616-square-foot building sold with deferred maintenance including a new roof needed.

Rob Lamb and the Rob Lamb Team of Long Realty represented Avila when it purchased it and the seller and buyer in the subsequent transaction.

For more information, Lamb should be reached at 520.444.4411.

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