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Principal Profile
Karissa Obeso, Assistant Property Manager CBRE/The Research Park at Marina Village
Serving a diverse tenant mix in the 31 buildings at The Research Park at Marina Village offers Assistant Property Manager Karissa Obeso the opportunity to work closely with the operations team and ownership on nearly everything happening at the property. Handling tenant relations, on-site vendor management and contracts, tenant improvement projects and capital projects are some of her responsibilities. The property’s recent ownership change prompted property management to survey tenants about what they thought would enhance the campus experience. “Surprisingly, the day-to-day needs of the full-service office tenants and life science tenants were similar—better security, enhanced customer service, and access to more food and service options,” Obeso said. “Since then, we have brought in a variety of weekly food trucks, worked with our lighting vendor to enhance exterior lighting, bid out security and increased security hours. Ownership also built out a tenant amenity center with free food and drinks, meeting space, work benches, and a new gym with state-of-the-art equipment. In the next year, we plan on adding more EV charging stations, a building café and a pop-up shop.” Obeso finds that “Alameda is exciting, as there is a ton of potential along beautiful untapped waterfront. Alameda is also positioned to draw innovative and exciting life science and bio-tech companies.” Prior to her current role, she worked for many years managing downtown Oakland properties. Just named BOMA OEB Principal Member of the Year, Obeso has a deep commitment to our association. Her contributions include: vice chair of the Emerging Professionals Committee, vice chair and chair of the Events Committee, and participation on the Awards Committee. She currently co-leads the Stakeholder Engagement Group. She observes that “being a part of all these amazing groups has allowed me to help plan some of our annual events. The golf tournament, trade show, holiday party and awards gala are just of few of these activities.” During her off-hours, adventure calls. “I love to camp and go backpacking and travel as much as I can,” Obeso says.
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