Texas Education Advisory Team

Unlocking the Potential of Your Real Estate

About us

The Texas Education Advisory Team is part of the National Education Advisory Group at Colliers which is the leading real estate advisors dedicated to the education industry. We are comprised of brokers and advisors who focus their training, skills and experience on delivering sustainable, defensible solutions to the unique needs of educational organizations.

From pre-schools to universities, the Texas Education Advisory Team takes a strategic approach to the unique real estate considerations facing educational facilities: parking density, expansion space, proximity to certain demographic profiles, and accessibility. We understand that real estate decisions impact much more than bricks and mortar. The Texas Education Advisory Team provides strategies and services that strive to reduce occupancy costs, increase efficiency and enhance enrollment.

Our goal is simple: to deliver customized, intelligent, high quality, and enhanced solutions for your schools. We will be committed to you and your success, from strategy to execution. And, as your needs change, Colliers keeps pace with you, providing you with the optimal solution at each stage in your business plan.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of the truth.

- John F. Kennedy

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

What we do

Colliers provides customized location real estate strategies that combine expertise with career education experience. The result is knowledge-based decisions that are financially sound, defensible real estate strategies that center on a school’s history, vision, and mission.

Capital Markets

• Access to capital

• Market analysis

• Financial underwriting

• Borrower analysis (financial statements)

• Economic conditions summary

• Identify capital sources

Facilities Management

• Operations management

• Risk management / quality assurance

• Contract administration / integrated cost control

• Facility and engineering functionality

• Sustainable building practices / LEED Certification

• Mechanical and electrical engineering

• Mail and food services

• Work order management

• Building operations and maintenance

Developer Services

• Create RFP for developer services

• Create financial documentation

• Site selection

• Tax implications

Transaction & Lease Administration Services

• Leased and owned facility acquisitions

• Excess space and surplus dispositions

• Portfolio administration / data management

• Custom financial models

• Concession procurement

• Ownership restructure / lease renegotiation

• Creation of cost reduction programs

• Web-based transaction management and lease administration

Site Selection & Portfolio Planning

• Dedicated single point of contact

• Mapping and demographics

• Customized market research, including student and labor density

• Development of space standards

• Customized financial models for site analysis

• Municipal incentives and advisory

• Zoning and permitting

• Managing / mitigating risk

The Classroom of the Future

The future is already here. Students work in mobile and collaborative ways within and outside the classroom supported by technology and driven by new learning practices and expectations. The classroom has become more than four walls and desks. The classroom is an integrated set of locations, technology, programs and practices that connect students, parents and teachers and enable them to contribute to the overall learning environment. When possible, education providers are upgrading their spaces to support trends that are challenging the old ideas about collaboration and location.

Identify Capital Sources

Access to capital is the single most important factor in putting together a school facility. The Colliers team can help their clients underwrite and identify available sources of capital.

Lease Administration

Colliers’ Lease Administration professionals combine technology, resources and market knowledge to help streamline lease administration and help clients avoid billing errors and overpayment. Services include abstracting leases, tracking critical lease dates, auditing landlord invoices and negotiating recoveries, budgeting real estate expenses, verifying and automating lease payments, and organizing and managing real estate portfolios.

Colliers 360

Colliers 360 is a fully-integrated, scalable analytics platform that provides complete coverage for clients’ corporate real estate and facilities management technology needs. Clients can view custom metrics for all areas of the business in real time through any web-enabled decide.

Operations Management

Colliers Facilities Management provides financial planning, ongoing operations management and project management for a full-service solution. With a focus on total quality management, we help you achieve efficiency, cost savings and profitability. Our approach combines the basic principles of sound plant maintenance, optimum asset utilization and efficient service delivery. We consult with you to gain a detailed understanding of your unique requirements then assign a specialized team to your property, with a single point of accountability for maximum efficiency.

Meet the team

Will Haynes Managing Director

Will leads the Texas Education Advisory Team focusing on advising clients on all aspects of their real estate needs with a primary concentration on educational and corporate organizations. He has gained considerable knowledge, experience, and expertise in the education real estate market through consulting and strategic planning, lease negotiations, portfolio management, acquisitions, and dispositions of real estate for K-12 and post-secondary institutions. Will holds a Bachelor of Managerial Science from Manhatten College.

Calvin Mooney Associate Calvin focuses on representing tenants in both the education and office sectors. Being a versatile real estate and finance professional, he is capable of identifying and analyzing investment opportunities. He is adept at working with internal stakeholders, third party vendors, and developing successful new business relationships with clients. Calvin hold a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Missouri-St. Louis as well as a Masters in Commercial Property Designation from Lipsey School of Real Estate.

Vada Hayes Client Services Specialist

Vada supports occupier services focused brokers within the Dallas Fort Worth Colliers office. She oversees all aspects of a transaction from initial market research and surveying of market options through the closing process. Vada excels at managing communication, pipeline, and task workflow between agents and clients. Vada holds a Bachelor of Arts with a focus in Mass Communications from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Clients Served

We go the extra mile to deliver results using innovative and proprietary technology.

Hawkeye is Colliers’ premier proprietary data and mapping program used for educational site selection and real estate acquisition. Over the past two years, Colliers’ research department and Will Haynes, II have been working on an interactive tool that can produce instant mapping results based on various data points and information layers. All data can be combined, layered, and displayed in countless ways to create dynamic visual effects, different analyses, and convey different information. Good data drives good decisions, and there is no better software than Hawkeye. Colliers strives to bring industry-leading technology and innovative tools that continually produce the best results for our clients.

Data Driven Results

Colliers GIS is a full service geographic consulting and mapping group. We provide cartographic, demographic and analytic products and services to the Colliers professionals, affiliates and partners; and directly to clients and other companies.

Map data and elements are not limited to any particular category or type of map. All data can be combined, layered, and displayed in countless ways to created different visual effects, different analysis, and to convey different information. Any data with a geographic component can be displayed on a map.

We tailor our comprehensive knowledge and fully integrated suite of services to successfully address the ever-evolving needs of each unique client, all while applying the passion and integrity we are know for.

GIS Data Elements:

• Streets, highways, political boundaries, zip codes, etc.

• Demographic data; current year estimates, and 5-year projections

• Segmentation data

• Aerial photography (not available in all areas)

• Business and employee summary data by SIC and occupation type

• Consumer expenditure and sales potential data by product and store type

Drive time and drive distance polygons

Traffic counts

Commercial real estate data

Building and business locations

Government / municipal data (as available)

• Client / broker supplied data (i.e. spreadsheets, photos, trade areas, etc.)

Local to global impact

We are enterprising. Colliers is an industry-leading global real estate company with more than 17,000 skilled professionals operating in 64 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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