CBRE is kind of a big deal, which garners positives and negatives. My wife and I were looking into building a new salon since the place that we were leasing was being put up for sale. VP Shawn Smith met us across the street from where we were at. He was responsible for leasing out the Trader Joe's shopping plaza. When we first met him, he was very nice, punctual, and eager to lease the place out. Dealing with a barebone space, we asked for $10k TI allowance and a key for access to have our contractors quote the work to transform the place. Now, being inside Trader Joe's, you're probably thinking, people are fighting to lease space. No, sadly, not here. Besides Sushi Minato (Now Closed), there are 5-6 empty spaces in a row. Sadly we don't hear from Shawn very much after putting in our financial disclosure and we don't see him anymore as his secretary hands out the keys. May be we are too small of a fish to fry and he has much bigger fish to catch. I would think that if he couldn't close a deal on that location, may be he would send us some information on other properties but we never heard from him again. It's ok because it was probably destiny, we ended up closing on 3,700 sq. ft. space with roughly $50k in TI and we are doing GREAT! I did learn something from Shawn, I need to become a bigger fish. read more