Cassidy Turley BT Commercial – Northern California’s Leading Commercial Real Estate Firm

Professional Profile

Frank Kawalkowski

Title: Senior Associate

Specialties: Investments

Cassidy Turley BT Commercial, San Francisco
201 California Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415-677-0430
License # 00214433
Email: fkawalkowski@ctbt.com

Scope of Service Experience:

Sale and financing of investment-quality properties as well as corporate real estate through sale and leaseback transactions

Education

B.S., Economics, Stanford University

Background & Experience

Co-founder of Damon Raike and Company in 1959. With over 40 years of experience in real estate, Mr. Kawalkowski coordinated equity investment for the company and the negotiations for large debt or equity investment transactions.

Professional Affiliations & Designations

Mortgage Bankers Association
Urban Land Institute
International Council of Shopping Centers
San Francisco Board of Realtors, et al
Director and Member of the Executive Committee, Real Estate Roundtable
Director, Jazz in the City, San Francisco, California
Athletic Commissioner, The Olympic Club
San Francisco Yacht Club
St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, California
New York Yacht Club

Significant Transactions

Sold Brickyard Regional Mall in Chicago, Illinois, for $76,000,000. This mall contains 1,121,757 square feet on 48 acres.

Financed Bricktown Square Shopping Center in Chicago, Illinois, for $40,000,000. This retail shopping center contains 300,000 square feet on 26 acres.

Negotiated the sale of Serramonte Center, a 850,000 square foot regional mall located on 80 acres in Daly City, California, for $119,000,000.

Negotiated a joint venture between Safeway Stores and the developer for a $40,000,000 development of Sequoia Station in Redwood City, California. This is a community shopping center comprised of 162,000 feet on 10.5 acres of land.

Sold a Pier 1 Imports 785,000 square foot distribution center in Savannah, Georgia, for $30,000,000.

Sold Serramonte Plaza, a 370,000 square foot retail shopping center on 27.5 acres in Daly City, California, for $17,500,000.

Financed Sunvalley Super Regional Mall in Concord, California, with $50,000,000 second leasehold convertible mortgage. The mall contains over 1,500,000 square feet on 78 acres.

Sold over $250,000,000 of Safeway Store properties in the United States and Canada in sale-leaseback transactions.

Sold over $200,000,000 of retail stores and distribution centers throughout the United States for Kmart Corporation in sale-leaseback transactions.

Sold IBM Canada, Ltd., World Headquarters Facility in Toronto, Canada, in a $70,000,000 sale-leaseback transaction and arranged a $50,000,000 first mortgage.

Sold Georgia Power Company headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, in a $68,000,000 sale-leaseback transaction and arranged a $52,000,000 first mortgage.

Sold central business district high-rise office building at 201 Mission Street in San Francisco, California, for $100,000,000 and arranged $81,500,000 financing for the buyer.

Arranged a $50,000,000 first mortgage for a downtown high-rise office building at 353 Sacramento Street in San Francisco, California.

Sold the 241,000 square foot Fireman's Fund Insurance corporate headquarters office facility in Marin County, California, for $48,000,000 to a developer to develop approximately 500,000 square feet for expansion.

Sold 250,000 square foot Commonwealth Edison office facility located in Oak Brook Terrace, Illinois, on a long-term sale-leaseback for $48,000,000.

Sold world headquarters facility for American Standard Companies in Piscataway, New Jersey, on a long-term sale-leaseback for $27,000,000.

Sold a light manufacturing and distribution warehouse of over 400,000 square feet in Temecula, California, under a long-term lease to Scotts Miracle-Gro Company for over $35,000,000.

Sold a net-leased Auto Mall and Collision Center in Irondale, Alabama, for $38,000,000.

Sold a 60,000 square foot LA Fitness facility in Minneapolis for $15 million.

Total sales, leases, financing, and participation of transactions are more than a total of $2.5 billion value of properties.