Jim Jay Email & Phone Number

Rockford, Il, Us

Rockford, Il

Managing Broker/Owner of Commercial Property Team LLC, a diversified commercial real estate brokerage company specializing as broker for national clients that provide industrial real estate plant closure asset and investment recovery services, plant decommissioning/dismantling/salvage services as buyers, partners and/or contractors for industrial plant closures, power plant closures, paper mill closures, mine closures, steel mill closures, chemical plant closures and ethanol plant closures, nationwide.

Rockford, Illinois Area

With experience in attracting over $4 Billion in new capital investment providing new jobs in the communities I served as an area economic development executive, I joined Whitehead Real Estate specializing in industrial, commercial and business brokerage. Whitehead was and continued to be the leading commercial real estate brokerage company until the early 2000's. Helped Whitehead establish a commanding presence on Loopnet.com, the leading worldwide commercial listing aggregator as well as developing proprietary software for tracking available properties for Whitehead client presentations. Developed the baseline estimate of industrial space and absorbtion information for the Rockford market used by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors for its annual nationwide study, now being maintained by the Colliers International Chicago office. Left Whitehead to start my own brokerage company, Commercial Property Team LLC.

Rockford, Illinois Area

Local Economic Development corporation that evolved into the current Rockford Area Economic Development Council. Established performance based goals and objectives based on a strategy of accelerating the natural economic growth of Chicago to Rockford by making it easy and attractive for Chicago industrial Realtors to recommend Rockford to their clients as a move that could produce acceptable profits at least risk. Developed a series of targeted industry reports itemizing the cost advantages of Rockford target industries for use by the Chicago area Realtors to provide comparative costs supporting Rockford as the right location for their clients. In short, the operating tactic was to build Rockford relationships with targeted industry by harnessing the relationships of a very influential group of real estate professionals serving the Chicago area, who collectively maintained regular contact with most of the industrial companies in the Chicago area. Left when the responsibility for the operating management of the Council was transferred to the Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce.

Coles County, Illinois, Including The Cities Of Charleston And Mattoon

Executive Director of a newly formed countywide economic development corporation charged with assisting in raising a 4-year initial budget of $1.4 million, developing a program of action which included formation of a 37 mile long enterprise zone that was the focus of more than $144 million of new industrial capital investment resulting in job growth that reduced unemployment in Coles County from above 20% unemployment to under 4% unemployment in the first 3 years of the program.

Madison, Wi

Reporting directly to the President and primary owner of Warzyn Engineering, a geotechnical consulting engineering company that was quickly growing into a world leader in the design of rubble shoreline protection with significant projects in Milwaukee and Racine, WI and Lake Forest, IL. Warzyn was also a leader in environmental consulting with it's geotechnical engineering base. Represented Warzyn as a invited guest for a 6 month evaluation of Chicago shoreline protection needs conducted by a special Shoreline Protection Commission and a Corps of Engineer Technical Committee which involved spending 3 days a week in Chicago for the 6 month study. Developed relationships with a team of consultants as Warzyn's potential Project Manager for projects that were being readied for a major study of the Chicago shoreline by Mayor Harold Washington's administration and the Corps of Engineers. This team competing for projects included Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Architects, Perkins and Will and Bear Sterns, among others. The proposed projects were abandoned following Mayor Washington's untimely death and receding Lake Michigan water levels.

Milwaukee, Chicago And Minneapolis Offices

I was brought in by the Managing Partner of the Milwaukee, Chicago and Minneapolis offices of this 17 office (at that time) national civil engineering firm. My charge was to find a way to use the rapid expansion of the Milwaukee office from it's leadership in the multi-billion dollar Milwaukee Deep Tunnels Stormwater Project to build long term, sustainable office growth in focusing on serving the broader municipal civil engineering core, "bead and butter" market in the 3 states served by the offices, When I started, the Milwaukee office had more than 100 engineers assigned to the Milwaukee Deep Tunnel Project and less than 20 engineers serving the core municipal civil engineering market. When I left, the Milwaukee office had more than 100 engineers serving the core municipal market and less than 20 engineers assigned to the Milwaukee Deep Tunnel Project, and the Chicago and Minneapolis offices had more than doubled engineering staff and billings.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Flad Architects ownership asked me to use my connections developed as a recognized leader in Wisconsin economic development to help build its practice in Wisconsin to be both a Rainmaker to directly bring in business and a Rainmaker coach to help Flad Project Managers win more assignments.

Faculty level position to develop experience in economic development prior to economic development curriculum development.

Bs, Urban Affairs And Urban Land Ecomomics

Activities and Societies: Track, Union BoardCompleted Advanced Studies in Urban Land Economics.

College Prep

Activities and Societies: Lettered in Football and Track, Freshman Class President, Youth Council Mayor, Student Council, Orchestra.