March 14, 2007
(Chicago – March 14, 2007) Dion Watton, 41, General Manager of HSA Commercial Real Estate's Brown Deer Business Park, has earned his Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation from The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). This prestigious designation is awarded to licensed property managers who have a minimum of 5 years of full-time decision making activity in real estate management and who complete numerous hours of continuing education certified by IREM.
Watton joined HSA in May, 2004 when the firm purchased Brown Deer Business Park, a 717,717 square foot mixed-use business park, consisting of 10 premium quality industrial, office and high-finish flex tech buildings on approximately 40 acres in the northwest suburbs of Milwaukee, Wis. The park has won the prestigious “TOBY” award (The Office Building of the Year) from the Wisconsin Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005. Under Watton's tenure at HSA, the firm's Wisconsin commercial portfolio has grown to 1.2 million square feet.
Watton has over 18 years of property management experience and has overseen management of Brown Deer since July, 2002. Watton is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a double BBA degree in Real Estate and Marketing and has been in the real estate business since 1988.
The Institute of Real Estate Management, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors, has been a source for education, resources, information and membership for real estate management professionals for over 70 years. Membership includes over 17,400 individual members and 505 corporate members. Collectively, IREM members manage more than 6.5 billion square feet of commercial space and more than 11 million residential units totaling over $848.2 billion in real estate assets.
Celebrating 26 years of excellence in commercial real estate, Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate is a full-service real estate firm specializing in office, industrial, retail and health care real estate leasing, management, marketing, development and financing on a national basis. The firm and its principals have developed and acquired more than 30 million square feet of commercial real estate across the United States with total consideration in excess of $1.5 billion, its brokerage divisions have completed more than 7,000 transactions in 43 states representing both owners and tenants, while the asset management division currently manages a property portfolio in excess of 15 million square feet in 12 states and the firm presently owns nearly 17 million square feet of commercial property in 14 states.
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