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Professional Summary
As Executive Vice Presdient | Retail Services, Dave Preston brings more than sixteen years of experience working in retail commercial real estate in South Florida, primarily representing major retailers, restaurants, and financial institutions on multi-unit rollouts, in addition to urban and suburban landlord representation, acquisition, disposition, investment sales, and development.
Prior to joining Colliers, Mr. Preston worked for eight years at Newmark Knight Frank, where he spearheaded South Florida’s retail leasing team. Previous to Newmark, he worked for six years in the leasing department of a leading regional commercial real estate firm, where he gained valuable experience in both landlord and tenant representation, responsible for leasing and overseeing over one million square feet of shopping center space early in his career.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Preston has been responsible for retail lease and sale transactions totaling more than 425,000 square feet and valued in excess of $365 million. He has completed transactions for such current and past clients including Automotion, BankUnited (BKU), Benihana, Inc, (BNHN), City National Bank, EQ3, Franklin Templeton (BEN), Yolk, Anna's Linens, SportClips, Havertys (HVT), Orvis, Pieology, Banco Popular, BB&T (BBT), TA Realty and BVT.
Mr. Preston is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is a past chairman of ICSC's Miami-Dade event planning committee.
A Miami native, Mr. Preston received his bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.
Education
- Bachelor's degree, University of Florida
Memberships & Involvements
- International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
Clients
- BankUnited
- Benihana
- Franklin Templeton
- Yolk
- Orvis
- BB&T
- GolfTEC
- Higher Ground Education
- ITSUGAR
- Skilken Gold
- Offerdahl's
Services
Service Lines
Property Type
My Team
My Team
As Executive Managing Director | Retail Services, Jonathan D. Carter brings more than 15 years of experience and a diverse background and perspective to South Florida retail. He specializes in investment sales, landlord representation and tenant representation for the sale and leasing of urban retail properties associated with high pedestrian foot traffic and vertical environments, often with limited or structured parking. With experience representing a vast array of landlords and tenants in their leasing, sales/investment sales and acquisitions efforts throughout South Florida, Mr. Carter is knowledgeable in many urban and suburban markets.
Overseeing various landlord and tenant representation assignments, Mr. Carter leads the leasing and sale efforts for a number of high profile assignments including the 551 Lincoln Road Theater, 718 Lincoln Road, Aventura ParkSquare, Brickell Arch, 1111 Brickell and 1010 Brickell, along with a myriad of other urban and suburban properties in the high-rent districts of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. He is one of the few leasing brokers with extensive experience leasing lifestyle centers in South Florida having completed multiple transactions in lifestyle venues located on Brickell, Lincoln Road, Collins Avenue, Ocean Drive, Sunset Harbor, Aventura, and South Miami, among others.
Prior to his role as Managing Director of Retail Leasing at Comras Company, Mr. Carter was previously a member of the retail leasing team at Cushman & Wakefield after starting his career at Schottenstein Realty Company.
Jenny Gefen joined Colliers International in 2019 as Director | Retail Services in the firm's Miami-Brickell office, where she focuses on advisory services support for local and national tenants. Ms. Gefen specializes in new business development, site selection management and strategic real estate implementation, and she has deployed this expertise across multiple disciplines and geographic regions.
Ms. Gefen has worked with a roster of marquis clients including Blue Dog Cookhouse & Bar, Bolay, Coyo Taco, DGX (DG), Humana (HUM), Jersey Mike’s, Madison Reed, Sushi Maki and Yolk, to name a few. Besides assisting corporate clients, she has experience advising both private equity and high-growth companies in their expansions.
Prior to joining Colliers, Ms. Gefen worked at Newmark Knight Frank and one of the top-producing teams at Cushman & Wakefield, representing Fortune 500 companies and other major users throughout the state of Florida.
Ms. Gefen is a licensed real estate salesperson and an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Ms. Gefen has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Florida International University.
As Senior Associate of Retail Services, Pablo brings more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience across a diverse background of transactions. He joined Colliers International on May 2019 and will focus on Landlord and Tenant Representation, retail investments sales, development, acquisitions, and dispositions in the South Florida Market.
Prior to joining Colliers International, Mr. Camposano was a Principal at OMR, a real estate brokerage company and Biscaya Holdings, a real estate investment firm, where he gained valuable experience in landlord and tenant representation as well as directly being involved on the acquisition and disposition of numerous distressed and non-distressed assets. He started his real estate career in 1998 as a real estate appraiser, where he became a Partner with C & C Appraisers. He continues to hold his Florida State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser license.
Based in our Brickell office, Ryan Brodsky works closely with Executive Managing Directors of Retail Service, Jonathan Carter and Dave Preston, focusing on leasing and sales efforts for our Urban/Lifestyle practice.
Prior to joining Colliers, Ryan was an Investment Sales intern at Marcus and Millichap where he assisted in evaluating commercial real estate properties nationally and in Canada as well as collaborated with in-house appraisal, finance, underwriting, and legal teams to determine profitability of potential acquisitions across the country. Previously, he was a Leasing Intern at Trinity Commercial Group in South Florida.