Crossman & Company President and Orlando Official School Wharton School of Business on Downtown Redevelopment

ORLANDO - John Crossman, president of Crossman & Company in Orlando and Davon Barbour, assistant director of Orlando’s Downtown Development Board and Community Redevelopment Agency, recently made a presentation at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania on how to incorporate retail participants in successful downtown redevelopment strategies. The presentation was part of the University of Shopping Centers, a three-day professional continuing education event held by the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Crossman, whose company ranks as one of the largest third-party retail leasing and management firms in the Southeast, said Orlando makes an exceptional model for successful downtown redevelopment.

“Orlando boasts all the most important elements of a successful redevelopment strategy,” Crossman said.

“You need leaders who have a vision of the future, and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty ably fulfill that role. Leaders need to work cooperatively, they need to do their research and they need to focus on residential development that will attract retail developers,” Crossman said.
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For more information please contact: John Crossman, CCIM, President, Crossman & Company, 407-581-6218, jcrossman@crossmanco.com; Molly Delahunty, Crossman & Company, 407-581-6220 mdelahunty@crossmanco.com

About Crossman & Company: Crossman & Company is one of the largest third-party retail leasing and management companies in Florida with over 16 million square feet under leasing and/or management. Founded in Orlando, Fla. in 1990, Crossman & Company is a full service commercial real estate firm that advises its clients in leasing, management, development and investment sales of retail and office properties and serves clients including Publix Super Markets, Inc., Lake Nona, PREIT, and LaSalle Investment Management. Please visit www.crossmanco.com, or call 407-423-5400 for more information.

Crossman & Company President, Orlando Official are Featured Speakers at ICSC Symposium on Community Development

ORLANDO- John Crossman, president of Crossman & Company, will join the City of Orlando’s Davon Barbour, assistant director of the Downtown Development Board Community Redevelopment Agency to co-chair a course at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) University of Shopping Centers Symposium March 10 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Crossman, whose Orlando-based commercial real estate firm ranks as one of the largest third party retail leasing and management companies in the southeast, is partnering with Barbour to co-teach a course entitled, Challenges and Opportunities for Community Success: The Shift to a New Economy.

“With the pressure of a tightening economy, budget deficits and infrastructure costs, the work of planners has become more challenging than ever before,” Crossman explained.

“We will be emphasizing local economic development initiatives and strategic plans that comprise the next frontier of retail development,” he said.

Crossman said the course will focus on new trends in retail development and renovation, the challenge of filling vacant retail spaces, using special incentives for new retail development, and establishing a successful long-term retail development plan for a community.

“Our course will give planners, retail property developers and community activists a competitive advantage, arming them with the knowledge to help position their community optimally in the future,” he said.

The course is sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers, the world’s largest professional association for retail property developers and planners.

For more information, contact:

John Crossman, CCIM, President, Crossman & Company, 407-581-6218, Jcrossman@crossmanco.com;

Justin Greider, Senior Associate, Crossman & Company/ICSC Florida Next Generation Chair, 407-581-6225; jgreider@crossmanco.com