Tampa Bay Business Journal: Container Store-anchored retail strip in Westshore has sold

April 20, 2022

The Corner at Westshore, a retail center anchored by The Container Store and several restaurants, has sold for $44.5 million. Franklin Street, which started marketing the property in late 2021, announced the sale on Wednesday. The property totals 67,019 square feet, and Franklin Street said the price per square foot of $664 is among the…

Event: Franklin Street’s Laura Stephens to Speak at Bisnow’s Atlanta State of the Market

April 15, 2022

Join us on Tuesday, April 26 for a half-day of insights on top investments and new innovations in Atlanta’s commercial real estate market. Franklin Street’s Laura Stephens, Senior Director in Atlanta, will join fellow CRE experts and business leaders to discuss new tech tenants and CRE opportunities emerging in one of Georgia’s hottest markets. What…

Bisnow: Laura Stephens joins Franklin Street

Franklin Street has tapped a former corporate real estate executive with Equifax to grow its office leasing business in Metro Atlanta. The firm hired Laura Stephens as the senior director of corporate occupier accounts. Prior to joining Franklin Street, Stephens was senior global director of real estate for Equifax and spent nine years at Cushman & Wakefield. Read the full article…

Orlando Business Journal: How Franklin Street’s brokerage team spurred interest in a slow-to-sell Osceola retail center

When Tampa-based Franklin Street took on the marketing of a 37,000-square-foot, multitenant retail strip center south of Kissimmee in the Poinciana area, it already had been on the market for six months. Within two weeks, the Southport Plaza was under contract for a $12.3 million sale that closed April 12. The shopping center’s two phases…

Insurance Business: Franklin Street taps 30-year brokerage veteran as president of Insurance Services

April 14, 2022

Franklin Street, a full-service commercial real estate and insurance services firm headquartered in Tampa, Florida, has appointed Rob Allen as president of its Insurance Services division. … What attracted Allen to Franklin Street was the firm’s “deep specialization” in the real estate space. The firm was founded in 2006 during one of the toughest real…