About Us
We believe in the power of personal relationships. That to forge lasting connections through collaboration and cooperation—all while keeping our clients’ interests top of mind—is the surest path to success.
This approach, along with old-fashioned hard work, has made our team a recognized authority on industrial real estate advisory. As the Austin Industrial Team at Colliers, we have participated in hundreds of transactions, assisting clients in achieving their business goals.
We are proud of our achievements over the years, maximizing value for our clients and striving for excellence in all that we do. By engaging our team, you will be sure that you have a dependable and dedicated team of people working toward your success.
30 years combined experience in industrial leasing and brokerage.
More than 10 million square feet in completed transactions.
Proven expertise representing industrial tenants in the Austin market.
Successful case studies across all submarkets.
Travis Hicks
Senior Vice President
Travis started the industrial practice at Collier’s Austin branch in 2014 and specializes in Tenant and Landlord representation services for Industrial users. Travis has more than fifteen years of commercial real estate experience including more than 400 transactions totaling 4.5M SF. His comprehensive understanding of the Austin industrial market and his experience navigating complex transactions for both Tenants and Landlords enables him to provide the highest level of service to his clients.
Chase Clancy
Senior Vice President
Chase Clancy joined Colliers as an industrial leasing specialist in 2018. Utilizing a deep knowledge of the industrial market, Chase prides himself on building relationships and working with integrity to achieve his clients' long-term goals. Prior to joining Colliers, Chase worked as a commercial agent for Don Quick & Associates, earning invaluable experience as an industrial and office landlord representative. Chase uses his understanding of both sides of the transaction to help maximize value for his clients.
Michael Modesett Associate
Michael joined Colliers in 2023 as an industrial specialist. Michael joins the team with more than two years of commercial real estate experience. As an Austin native Michael is uniquely poised to add value to the Colliers team. His robust understanding of the Austin market will allow him to build his book of business and deliver exceptional service to his clients.
Madeleine Goodnight
Client Services Coordinator
Madeleine Goodnight brings a wealth of experience from her career spanning marketing, public relations, and client account management. Her primary responsibilities include managing client relationships and executing strategic marketing initiatives tailored to the industrial sector. Madeleine's proven track record in enhancing client communications and support make her a key asset in strengthening our service offerings in the Austin commercial real estate market.
Senior Marketing Manager
Marketing & research bench strength National & regional bench strength
Amber Ryan
Mike Otillio Research Director
Baily Datres Senior Digital Marketing Specialist
Hannah Williams Research Coordinator
What We Do
Our team constantly examines market intelligence and industry advancements, which gives our clients a competitive edge within the central Texas marketplace. Our attention to detail and market research, combined with hard work and an unwavering persistence, achieves the results our clients have come to expect. We take pride in our connection to the communities we serve and our role in helping companies grow and prosper. By delivering results, we build trust with our clients which often yields long-term relationships with multiple assignments.
Tenant Rep Focused
We specialize in strategizing, sourcing and securing the right property for your needs. We're setting new industry standards through our innovative technology, unparalleled data and advanced marketing capabilities.
Strategic Planning
We will work with you to identify high-impact, cost-saving opportunities across a portfolio of properties and determine how to adapt your portfolio to align with your business goals.
Site Selection
We provide detailed location analyses to drive the best site selection results. Our technology helps you visualize invaluable information pertaining to operating costs, workforce demographics, infrastructure, property tax rates, unionization trends, operational risks and more.
Data-Enabled, Analytical Approach
We rely heavily on data to make informed decisions, within the context of your operations and the market. Our team can equip you with insights to help you make quantitatively justified location-related decisions in labor markets around central Texas.
Contract Negotiations
With decades of experience on both sides of the negotiating table and with current market and industry knowledge, we can bring parties together to find common ground and achieve a mutually beneficial outcome.
The Right Approach
We deeply understand our markets
We meticulously track every aspect of the development pipeline, keeping track of market trends, tenant preferences, vacancy rates, and rental rates. Armed with this knowledge, we have the expertise to guide our clients towards the most cost effective opportunities, optimizing portfolios, and make informed decisions for success in this ever-changing industry. Trust our team to provide you with comprehensive and insightful analysis that will shape your real estate ventures for long-term success.
“The Colliers team went above and beyond our expectations, helping us secure a below-market deal on our new R&D facility. We wouldn’t consider using anyone else on our next expansion!”
Ben Schuler Founder & CEO | Infinitum Electric
Understanding your business
Discovery
Understanding your business goals and objectives
Alignment
Analyzing results and gaining agreement on desired directions
Strategy
Generating alternatives and developing an overall strategy
Delivery
Implementing the plan and executing the details
Metrics
Reporting on results and assessing performance
Full offering of services
• Tenant representation
• Landlord representation
• Distribution
• Warehouse
• Manufacturing
• Logistics
• Land acquisitions & dispositions
• Financial analysis
• New facility development
• Project management
• Research
• In-house marketing
Representative Experience
Challenge
Infinitum Electric designs and manufactures next-generation electric motors with a range of applications. Early in the company’s history, they worked with one of Collier’s main competitors, and were extremely unimpressed with the level of service and commitment to the company that they received. When Colliers engaged with Infinitum, the company was operating out of a small flex space in Round Rock, Texas, that was insufficient for their operations, and they needed to find a new electrical engineering and R&D lab immediately.
Results
• Given the complex operations of the company, Colliers was well suited to find them a location that could support their advanced manufacturing needs, along with their projected headcount, and did so by successfully negotiating a belowmarket lease on a space in what was already a historically tight market.
• Since then, the real estate solution that Colliers sourced has only accelerated the company’s growth, and they are now poised for multi-market expansion, working with Colliers brokers across the country and internationally to continue to drive results.
Challenge
Austin team consisted of Doug Rauls, Volney Campbell and Travis Hicks. BAE was a very complex transaction whereby Colliers Austin was tasked with both disposing of their old, dilapidated campus in Austin and relocating to a 300k-400k RSF state-of-the-art facility in North Austin. After extensive research which resulted in a very limited pool of potential buyers for the existing campus, we determined that we needed to find a single owner/developer willing to buy the campus and build to suit. We then worked with Karlin and their CBRE representatives to finalize a successful transaction for all parties.
Results
• Travis was brought in early to assist with all facets of the lease / build-to-suit. This included market surveys, comps, full negotiations, helping to develop and review pricing structures, and helping to work through a few Landlord created issues after PSA/Lease execution (which avoided millions of dollars of costs that were going to be wrongfully placed into the projects scope).
• End result: Successful sale of existing campus at a market price, and a lease for a new state of the art facility totaling 390k RSF.
Industrial Tenant Experience
• 19200 Marketplace Ave, Kyle, TX
• Simwon single tenant lease
• 493,000 SF
• 1980 Kohlers Crossing, Kyle, TX
• Building Lease
• 108,160 SF
• 9101 Wall Street, Austin, TX 78754
• Building Lease
• 51,200 SF
• 401C Parker Drive, Austin, TX
• Building Lease
• 57,600 SF
• 1501 Leander Drive, Leander, TX 78641
• Building Sale
• 19,800 SF
• 2251 Picadilly Drive, Austin, TX
• Building Lease
• 51,595 SF
• 4101 Smith School Road, Austin, TX 78744
• Building Lease
• 25,600 SF
• 4401 Freidrich Lane, Austin, TX 78744
• Building Lease
• 75,051 SF
• 10405 Metric Boulevard, Austin, TX 78758
• Building Lease
• 14,000 SF
Kyle Crossing
Prologis Walnut Creek
Prologis Corridor Park
1501 Leander
Northpointe Trade Center
Burleson Business Park
Southpark Commerce Center
Rutland 8
Plum Creek Industrial Center
Crystal Park
• 106 E Old Settlers Boulevard, Round Rock, TX 78664
• Building Lease
• 40,126 SF
• 4616 W Howard Lane, Austin, TX 78728
• Building Lease
• 12,530 SF
• 15407 Long Vista Drive, Austin, TX 78728
• Building Lease
• 36,140 SF
• 1992 Steam Way, Round Rock, TX 78665
• Building Lease
• 11,366 SF
• 2200 Denton Drive, Austin, TX 78758
• Building Lease
• 15,730 SF
• 17654 Ben E Keith Way, Selma, TX 78154
• Building Lease
• 70,000 SF
• 1351 Bunton Creek, Kyle, TX 78640
• Land Sale
• 223,463 SF
• 2301 Double Creek Drive, Round Rock, TX 78664
• Building Lease
• 57,000 SF
Business Park
• 600 Schneider Boulevard, Hutto, TX
• Building Lease
• 142,986 SF
NorthTech Business Center
Vista Industrial Park
Altman Business Park
Denton Center
Selma Industrial Park
1351 Bunton Creek Platform 45
Innovation
Tenant Representation Timeline
1
Strategy & Criteria Development
• Establish goals
• Develope site criteria & strategy
• Create milestones timeline
Phase 1
2-3 weeks
Phase 2
3
Site Selection &
• Analyze & identify
• Investigate potential
• Negotiate terms
2
4-6 weeks Phase
Accommodation Search
• Identify ideal 'vision' locations
• Evaluate options
• Tour short-list properties
4-6 weeks
Negotiation
5
identify ideal location potential incentives terms Construction & Move Management
Phase 3
weeks Phase
4
3-5 weeks
• Construction project management
• Provide milestone updates
• Track relocation logistics
Phase 5 16-20 weeks
4
Secure Preferred Site
• Execute lease/legal documents
• File incentives requests
• File tax abatements
Renewal Myths
We have no interest in relocating. We plan on renewing.
We have a good relationship with the landlord / their agent.
We are getting a good deal or reduction/small increase in rent.
We already have a lease in place.
Engaging brokers will cost us in added fees and higher rent.
• Our objective is not to relocate you, but rather to drive the most
• The moment a Tenant requests a proposal to renew without
• By taking your requirement to the market, we create alternatives
• The Landlord’s objective is to maximize profits and shift economic
• The Landlord is in the commercial real estate business… and
• If a professional Landlord uses a broker/agent, it is highly advisable
• A ‘good deal’ can only be benchmarked against market relocation orchestrating competition for your tenancy.
• Landlords do not readily give their best deals. Negotiation and
• An existing Lease has little bearing going into a renewal scenario
• Our process includes improving the terms and conditions of
• The renewal provides us an opportunity to achieve additional
• Brokerage fees are not added to your rent. They are factored contractual expense via the Landlord’s and Agent.
• Fees are not deducted from your rent if you negotiate without
• The Landlord’s Agent is incentivized to discourage your use of
most aggressive economic and non-economic leasehold regardless of lease type. representation, the Landlord achieves the upper hand in the negotiations. alternatives and strengthen your negotiating position. economic and non-economic risks to your company. they still rely on professional representation. advisable for you to engage professional representation as well. relocation alternatives that have been brought to maturity pursuant to a methodical process and leverage define market reality. scenario and in some cases can be a liability . your current lease document. additional Tenant savings and enhanced risk mitigation. factored into the operating budget of the building and are reflected in rates. Brokerage fees are a without representation. of a broker, resulting in a more favorable transaction for them.
Local to Global Impact
We are enterprising. Colliers is an industryleading global real estate company with more than 19,000 skilled professionals operating in 66 countries.
What sets us apart is not what we do, but how we do it. Our enterprising culture encourages our people to think differently, share great ideas and create effective solutions that help clients accelerate their success.
Colliers delivers a full range of services to real estate occupiers, owners and investors across all sectors worldwide.
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