M&T Realty Capital Appoints Muth Managing Director
M&T Realty Capital Appoints Muth Managing Director
M&T Realty Capital Corp., Baltimore, appointed Steven Muth Managing Director based in Albany, N.Y. He will originate Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA/HUD loans for multifamily and healthcare properties nationwide.
Muth comes to M&T Realty Capital Corp. from the firm’s Healthcare Banking Group, where he served as a Senior Relationship Manager for the past seven years. Prior to this appointment, he worked as a Federal Tax Associate at KPMG LLP.
JLL Names Curtis to Global Sustainability role
JLL, Chicago, named Cynthia Curtis Senior Vice President for Global Sustainability Stakeholder Engagement. She will work with key employees, clients and investors to further embed and effectively communicate sustainability capabilities across all JLL services.
Curtis brings experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to joining JLL she was a senior advisor for policy and engagement at Ceres, a not-for-profit organization advocating for a sustainable economy through a network of investors and businesses. She also served as Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at CA Technologies, where she successfully extended the scope of the company’s sustainability initiatives, increased employee engagement and established a governance structure of oversight by the Board of Directors.
Curtis is a regular commentator on sustainability issues through social media and public speaking, and she designed and constructed one of the Boston area’s first gold LEED-certified residences.
Lydon, Tecu Join Avison Young in Chicago
Avison Young hired commercial real estate industry veterans Chris Lydon and Chris Tecu.
Effective immediately, Lydon and Tecu become Principals of Avison Young and will work as a team while focusing on industrial brokerage services. Both will be based in the firm’s Rosemont, IL office. Lydon was most recently a senior director with Cushman & Wakefield in Chicago while Tecu most recently served as a vice-president with CenterPoint Properties in Chicago. Lydon and Tecu previously worked together at Trammell Crow Company in Chicago.
Lydon brings 25 years of industry experience to Avison Young. During his career, he has been involved in transactions covering more than 100 million square feet with an aggregate value in excess of $950 million. A consistent top producer, he has represented institutional owners and users on both a local and national level while serving in the roles of broker, owner and developer.
Lydon’s past and current clients include Sears Holding Corporation, Seefried Properties, Liberty Property Trust, Panattoni Development, Wirtz Realty Corp., Invesco, 3D Exhibits, Prologis and Morgan Stanley, among others.
Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Lydon was a senior vice president and industrial brokerage leader at Grubb & Ellis Company in Chicago. Before moving to Grubb & Ellis, he was a vice president and marketing director at AMB Property Corporation, where he oversaw the leasing of the company’s 14 msf Chicago industrial-building portfolio. He began his career as a vice-president with Trammell Crow Company, providing brokerage services and brokerage management for the Chicago-area office’s industrial brokerage division while working in partnership with Tecu.
Tecu brings 19 years of commercial real estate experience to Avison Young. During his career, he has negotiated more than 80 msf of industrial real estate acquisitions, dispositions and leasing transactions. From 2010 to 2017, he managed CenterPoint Properties’ acquisitions in the Gulf Coast region, particularly in the Houston marketplace. From 2008 to 2017, he was responsible for the purchase of more than $1 billion of industrial properties nationally.
Prior to joining CenterPoint in 2008, Tecu was an industrial broker in the O’Hare submarket for CBRE. He entered the commercial real estate industry in 1999 with Trammell Crow Company in Chicago, where he originally partnered with Lydon.
Tecu’s past and current clients include AMB, Prologis, CenterPoint, Duke Realty, First Industrial Realty Trust and Sitex Realty Group. He is an active member of NAIOP and AIRE. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Kansas.
