REAL ESTATE
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPERS, RANKED BY 2014 ARIZONA HOLDINGS IN SQUARE FEET
Top 10 VESTAR 2425 E. Camelback Road, Suite 750, Phoenix, 85016 // 602-8660900 // vestar.com FOUNDED 1977 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 23 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES retail LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS Tempe Marketplace and Desert Ridge Marketplace PRINCIPAL Rick Kuhle, chairman, CEO HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN Pam Bentle, treasurer MARK-TAYLOR INC. 6623 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 85258 // 480-991-9111 // mark-taylor.com FOUNDED 1985 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 17 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES Multi-family LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS San Travesia, San Sonoma, San Privada PRINCIPAL Jeff Mark, Scott Taylor, chairman, president HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN Doreen Gannon, vice president development operations LINCOLN PROPERTY COMPANY 3131 E. Camelback Road, Suite 318, Phoenix, 85016 // 602-912-8888 // lpcphx.com FOUNDED 2001 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 7 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES office, industrial, warehouse, business park LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS ADOA, ADEQ, Broadway 101, AZ Game & Fish, 10 Chandler PRINCIPAL David R. Krumwiede, executive vice president HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN Alisa M. Timm, director of management services RED DEVELOPMENT CO. 1 E. Washington St., Suite 300, Phoenix, 85004 // 480-947-7772 // reddevelopment.com FOUNDED 1995 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 6.6 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES retail, shopping centers, mixed-use LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS CityScape Phoenix, The Shops at Town & Country PRINCIPAL Mike Ebert, managing partner HIGHESTRANKING WOMAN Roxanne Southwell, executive vice president of operations, human resources and information technology
IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR
MOLLY RYAN CARSON
VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT BY CHRISTOPHER GEOFFREY MCPHERSON
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When Molly Ryan Carson began working 15 years ago at Ryan Companies U.S., Inc., the company founded by her great-grandfather, she carried a burden perhaps heavier than many of her co-workers. “I’m a fourth-generation Ryan,” says the vice president of development. “My father was the CEO, now my uncle is the CEO and president.” Her father made it clear it was not a given that she would work for him. “He said, ‘Look, there are no favors. If you’d like to apply for a job at Ryan, I can offer you an opportunity to interview. If all goes well, you’re likely to get an entry-level position, that’s all you are offered.’” She applied and got a job as a laborer, a summer job she worked all through college. “I said, ‘OK I’m going to put my head down and I’m going to learn,’” Carson says. “As you can imagine there are great benefits and great burdens of having the last name of the company you’re working with.” It didn’t take long for her to realize she’d made the right choice. “I came home after a month, and said, ‘All that talk about culture and how special a place it is to work and that people really care and feel a part of family: It’s all true.’”
Aside from sharing the same last name, there was another issue. “There are benefits to being a woman in business and burdens to being a woman,” she says. “Whining isn’t going to help, so put your big-girl pants on and figure out a way to work through that.” Now, all these years later, she’s seen a lot of changes. “Yes, it has changed,” she says. “I see a lot more female project managers, female laborers. Certainly we have wonderful female real estate brokers. Are there some days that you feel you’re right back before the bra-burning days? Yes. But I feel gender more and more is being taken off the table.” Yet while progress is being made, not everything has changed. “Whether it’s a glass ceiling or in front of peers outside of the company, real estate’s a tough game,” she says. “There are a lot of egos and confidence. There are very serious and costly decisions made each day. You get a little of that old-boy network from the younger guys who aren’t used to seeing a gal out there. I try to focus on the business and being an employee rather than being a woman.”
PLAZA COMPANIES 9401 W. Thunderbird Road, Suite 200, Peoria, 85381
// 623-972-1184 // theplazaco.com FOUNDED 1982 2014 HOLDINGS
IN SQ. FT 3 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES medical office, biotech, senior living LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS SkySong the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, Vi at Grayhawk PRINCIPAL AND HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN Sharon Harper, president, CEO and chairman of the board HINES 2375 E. Camelback Road, Suite 150, Phoenix, 85018 // 602-3854000 // hines.com FOUNDED 1997 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 3 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES office, multi-family, mixed-use LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS 24th at Camelback I & II, Renaissance Square One & Two, PRINCIPAL Chris Anderson, managing director, regional partner HIGHESTRANKING WOMAN Carol Kleinberg, general property manager RYAN COMPANIES U.S., INC. 3900 E. Camelback Road, Suite 100, Phoenix, 85018 // 602-322-6100 // ryancompanies.com FOUNDED 1994 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 2.5 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES office, industrial, medical office, retail, hospitality LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS GoDaddy Global Technology Center, Amkor Technology corporate headquarters PRINCIPAL Rick Collins, president/SouthWest HIGHESTRANKING WOMEN Molly Ryan Carson, vice president of development; Anna Riley, regional director of management KITCHELL 1707 E. Highland Ave., Phoenix, 85016 // 602-264-4411 // kitchell.com FOUNDED 1950 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 1.5 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES retail, office, multifamily, industrial LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS San Dorado (Oro Valley), Mountain Ranch Marketplace (Goodyear) PRINCIPAL Jim Swanson, CEO HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN Nancy Kelley, assistant controller TRAMMELL CROW COMPANY 2231 E. Camelback Road, Suite 102, Phoenix, 85016 // 602-222-4000 // trammellcrow.com/phoenix FOUNDED 1948 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT 1.45 million DEVELOPMENT TYPES office, industrial, and retail LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS MAX at Kierland, American Express Campus Phase I & II PRINCIPAL Donald “Jim” Mahoney, senior managing director HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN Catherine Thuringer, principal ALLIANCE RESIDENTIAL CO. 2415 E. Camelback Road, Suite 600, Phoenix, 85016 // 602-788-2800 // allresco.com // FOUNDED NA 2014 HOLDINGS IN SQ. FT. 653,904 DEVELOPMENT TYPES Apartments LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS Vaseo, Broadstone Element PRINCIPAL Robert Hutt, senior managing director for the Southwest 2014 HIGHESTRANKING WOMAN Keri Conyers, vice president of operations for Southwest
WHO’S WHO IN BUSINESS // 2015
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