Tim Moore
Senior Vice President Central Region
IDI Logistics
Memphis
The numbers highlight just how successful Tim Moore has been during his commercial real estate career: Since joining IDI Logistics in 2005, he has been involved with the leasing and development of inventory and build-to-suit projects totaling more than 38 million square feet of space.
Moore is Senior Vice President for IDI Logistics’ Central Region, a 10-million-square-foot portfolio serving markets including Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Memphis and Nashville.
Based in Memphis, he leads all capital deployment and operations efforts for the region, including building acquisitions, dispositions, development, and asset management, along with land acquisition and development.
“In earlier roles, I felt enormous satisfaction in closing deals,” Moore said. “Being several steps away from the day-to-day deal flow has allowed me to leverage my experience to guide younger team members toward positive outcomes. Now, creating a collective team mentality and mentoring our future leaders, setting shared goals, developing a shared strategy and seeing that strategy pay off in the form of success for the younger members is what I enjoy most.”
Moore, though, hasn’t always been a commercial real estate star. He began his professional career in environmental consulting and traveled extensively throughout the southeast United States, primarily performing environmental assessments at naval air stations that were closing under the DoD Base Realignment and Closure program.
Later, Moore moved into contamination remediation projects for private clients, something that piqued his interest in the broader field of real estate development.
Moore then began his real estate career as a leasing representative for Security Capital (now ProLogis), where he was responsible for a large second-generation Class-B industrial portfolio in Memphis.
In 2000, ProLogis delivered its first Class-A bulk building in Memphis. This solidified Moore’s interest in the development of best-in-class facilities. He then moved into the Regional Marketing Director role at The Pauls Corporation in Denver, where he focused exclusively on developing and leasing Class-A industrial buildings in Gateway Park in Aurora.
Finally, in 2005, Moore took a position as leasing director for IDI in Memphis. He has thrived in this role.
“At IDI Logistics, we focus exclusively on developing best-in-class logistics facilities,” Moore said. “Never compromising on quality creates a compelling mindset that permeates throughout the broader organization. I take an immense sense of pride in our brand and sincerely enjoy being able to consistently tout and stand behind our product as the best. The IDI Logistics team of Development Managers are the most talented in the business, bar none.”
A big reason for Moore’s success? It comes down to the right mindset.
“Early on in my career when pursuing tenants for leasing, I concentrated heavily on the ‘company’ I was dealing with,” Moore said. “When I changed my perspective from considering them not as customers or companies, but as people who needed a problem solved, the satisfaction from my work increased tremendously. I began to focus on how to solve their problems and make it an incredibly positive experience.”
Moore says that he cherishes every opportunity to get to know the people “behind the deal,” a perspective that has has helped build meaningful relationships throughout his career that last well beyond the transaction.
When not working, Moore prefers spending time with his wife and family. He also enjoys any outdoors activity, golf, hunting, fishing and tackling home-renovation projects.
