Sean McHale joins Avison Young's Indianapolis office

Corporate services and tenant representation expert to provide industrial practice group with leadership and oversight

INDIANAPOLIS, March 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Bill Ehret, Avison Young Principal and Managing Director of the firm's Indianapolis office, announced today the strategic hiring of veteran commercial real estate professional Sean McHale.

Effective immediately, McHale becomes a Principal of Avison Young and will focus on corporate services and tenant representation for the company's growing Indianapolis office. He will also lead new business development for the firm's industrial practice group in the Indianapolis market. McHale was most recently a Principal with Resource Commercial Real Estate (formerly Colliers International) in Indianapolis, where he focused on industrial leasing and development.

"Sean McHale brings a great deal of industrial real estate transaction experience to Avison Young," comments Ehret. "As a Principal, Sean will work closely with Steve Schaub, a Senior Vice-President in the Indianapolis office, to build our depth and service capabilities for both owners and corporate users of industrial space. Sean has an incredible ability to focus on client solutions and brings tremendous energy to our team."

McHale brings 21 years of commercial real estate industry experience to Avison Young. During his career, he has been involved in all aspects of commercial real estate in the Indianapolis market. Prior to joining Colliers, he was a Vice-President at Equis Corporation, where he led the industrial services group in Indianapolis for nearly 11 years. McHale started his real estate career at Duke Realty as a senior leasing representative for an industrial team dedicated to leasing and managing a 20-million-square-foot industrial portfolio predominantly located within Park 100 Business Park, a premier industrial park located on the northwest side of Indianapolis.

"My immediate goal is to introduce the Avison Young brand and its differentiated, Principal-led, client-centric service model to central Indiana and gain traction for our newly formed industrial team," says McHale. "The Avison Young platform is ideally composed to deliver intelligent, client-first real estate solutions, and I'm excited to leverage that offering in the Indianapolis market."

He adds: "I'm also looking forward to expanding Avison Young's industrial footprint across the Midwest and completing multi-market and cross-border transactions in collaboration with my new colleagues in the rest of the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe."

McHale holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and business management from Miami University of Ohio. He was named a CoStar Power Broker from 2011 to 2014 and earned Top Producer credentials from Colliers International-Indianapolis. He is affiliated with several commercial real estate organizations, including the Indiana Commercial Board of Realtors (ICBR) and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA). He also volunteers with the American Heart Association and Special Olympics-Boone County.

Avison Young opened its Indianapolis office in March 2015. The company opened its first Midwest office in Chicago in January 2009. Since then, the firm has expanded in the region by opening offices in Detroit (October 2012); Columbus, Ohio (January 2014); Cleveland (September 2014); and Minneapolis (March 2015) as well as Indianapolis.

Over the past seven years, Avison Young has grown from 11 to 75 offices and from 300 to more than 2,100 real estate professionals in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Europe.

Avison Young is the world's fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Avison Young is a collaborative, global firm owned and operated by its principals. Founded in 1978, the company comprises 2,100 real estate professionals in 75 offices, providing value-added, client-centric investment sales, leasing, advisory, management, financing and mortgage placement services to owners and occupiers of office, retail, industrial and multi-family properties.

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• Sherry Quan, Principal, Global Director of Communications & Media Relations, Avison Young: 604.647.5098; cell: 604.726.0959 [email protected] 

• Andrew Fredricks, Marketing Manager, Chicago, Avison Young: 312.273.4503 [email protected]

• Allison Millar, Principal, Open Slate Communications, Chicago: 847.845.5648

• Bill Ehret, Principal and Managing Director, Indianapolis, Avison Young: 317.210.8808

• Sean McHale, Principal, Avison Young: 317.210.8809

• Mark Rose, Chair and CEO, Avison Young: 416.673.4028

• Earl Webb, President, U.S. Operations, Avison Young: 312.957.7610

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