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CBRE Recognized With Four TOBY® Awards

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CBRE received four The Outstanding Building of the Year® (TOBY®) Awards by the 2014 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Fort Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches.

The TOBY Awards are the most prestigious and comprehensive programs in the commercial real estate industry, recognizing outstanding performance and rewarding excellence in building management.

“This is an important honor as it recognizes CBRE’s commitment to excellence and our Asset Services team’s professionalism and outstanding client service delivery capabilities,” said Patty Nooney, Senior Managing Director, CBRE Investor Services.

The awards recognize four office properties that CBRE manages on behalf of its clients and were presented in the following categories:

  • Renovated Building: Sabadell Financial Center, Plantation (Client – Clarion Partners)
  • Suburban Office Park (Low Rise): International Plaza, Boca Raton (Client – Clarion Partners)
  • 100,000 – 249,999 SF Building: The Plaza, Boca Raton (Client – MetLife)
  • 250,000 – 499,999 SF Building: Coastal Tower, Fort Lauderdale (Client – CBRE Global Investors)

 

Stiles, Pointe Group Advisors Win Big At TOBYs

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Stiles‘ owned and managed office buildings, the historic Plaza at Las Olas and The AutoNation Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale, were honored with The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) awards from the Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).

Overall, Stiles received six distinguished TOBY awards for quality office and retail projects as well as its management personnel.

Stiles corporate headquarters, Plaza at Las Olas, was the recipient of the TOBY award in the Corporate Facility category. Originally built as a two-story structure in the 1940’s, Plaza at Las Olas has been renovated four times over the last eight decades and has become a landmark on Las Olas Boulevard. With its most recent renovation, the property earned LEED certification while being transformed into a contemporary and functional office space boasting nine stories, clean lines, a crisp façade and Class A restaurant and retail on the ground floor.  The property is managed by Stiles property managers Alexandria Brown and Nicki Oneill.

Recipient of the Earth award, The AutoNation Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale was granted top honors for sustainability. The 17-story building is LEED-Gold certified and acknowledged for energy conservation, indoor air quality, green cleaning and tenant education. Managed by Stiles property manager Megan Purdue, the property is located at 200 Southwest 1st Avenue and comprises more than 187,000 square feet of office and 17,000 square feet of retail near Las Olas Riverfront.

In the retail property category, Stiles was honored with a TOBY for its managed shopping center Tower Shops located in Davie. The 368,831-square-foot property is owned by Federal Realty investment Trust and managed by Stiles property manager Danean Belloise.

Stiles is also proud that two of its key personnel, John Braun and Megan Purdue, were honored with the esteemed Engineer of the Year and Property Manager of the Year awards, respectively. Purdue was also presented with the distinguished Ron Macklin Scholarship award for the second consecutive year for her contributions to the industry.

International Place II,  a 95,000-square-foot Class A office building in Sunrise, managed by Miami-based Pointe Group Advisors, was honored with the 2014 “The Outstanding Building of the Year” (TOBY) Award in the category of buildings under 100,000 square feet.

The building’s major tenants include BB&T, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and Elderly Housing Development Corp. The building is located in the heart of Broward County’s Sawgrass neighborhood, just minutes away from Sawgrass Mills and the BB&T Center.

The TOBY Awards were held at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, on Nov. 7, 2014.

 

Stiles’ Managed Office Towers Win Building of the Year Awards

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Three office towers managed by Stiles in the Las Olas corridor of downtown Fort Lauderdale won the Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) Award from the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach.

One tower in particular also placed in the top five percent in the 2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National ENERGY STAR® competition – the national mark of excellence in energy performance – by meeting stringent EPA guidelines.

These recognitions are a tribute to the cost-saving sustainability program of Stiles Property Management, the third largest Property Management firm in South Florida. According to Stiles Property Management President Chris Rotolo, Stiles’ sustainability program has shown to reduce operating expenses by approximately ten percent compared to similar buildings.

350 and 450 Las Olas Centre – Owned by USAA Real Estate Company and led by Senior Property Manager Kim Burns, this is the first TOBY this building has won in over ten years. Awarded in the category of Outstanding Buildings between 250,000-499,999 square feet, all facets of a building’s operations are thoroughly evaluated, including site management, sustainable policies and practices and community involvement. Located at 350 and 450 East Las Olas Boulevard, the 18 and 14-story tower buildings, totaling 259,607 square feet and 209,746 square feet, respectively, share street-level retail and parking space on prestigious Las Olas Boulevard. The combined property is leased primarily to office tenants that include Huizenga Holdings, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.

In addition to the TOBY award, the 350 Las Olas Centre tower placed ninth out of 245 entrants in the 2011 National EPA ENERGY STAR® competition. The building reduced its energy usage by 19 percent over the course of the six-month competition from April 2011 to September 2011. ENERGY STAR was introduced by EPA in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency.  In an effort to reduce that building’s energy use Stiles implemented a computer-operated energy management system, electricity-reducing technologies and lighting retro-fits.

The AutoNation Building – A tribute to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification it attained in early 2011, this building was awarded the coveted Earth Award by BOMA for meeting the criteria mentioned above along with an additional emphasis on sustainable policies and practices. The judges consider specific environmental policies including but not limited to recycling, energy and water conservation, indoor air quality and green cleaning, as well as emergency response and tenant education. Located at 200 Southwest 1st Avenue, The AutoNation Building is the headquarters of auto retailing giant, AutoNation. It is a 17-story mixed-use Class A office building with more than 17,000 square feet of ground-level retail shops near Las Olas Riverfront and six levels of parking.

Achieving the Earth Award and placing top ten in the 2011 National Energy Star competition is the latest step in Stiles’ companywide commitment to investing, building and managing sustainable properties.  As one of the first property management firms in Florida to implement a fully-integrated sustainability program, Stiles maintains an extraordinary roster of 18 LEED projects ranging from new construction to existing building certifications. The company’s former headquarters building in downtown Fort Lauderdale—300 Las Olas Place—is Florida’s first existing multi-tenant office building to receive Gold-level LEED-EB certification.  In addition, Stiles developed, leases and manages Lake Shore Plaza II, Broward’s first multi-tenant office building to be Silver LEED certified.