Bradford Allen, a national full-service real estate firm, announced Jennifer Murphy has joined the firm as president of management services. In this role, Murphy will be responsible for managing Bradford Allen’s growing portfolio of office properties in Chicago and nationally. She will report to Brian Dovalovsky, senior managing director of Bradford Allen, and be based in the firm’s Downtown Chicago headquarters.
A 20-year veteran of property and construction management, Murphy has helped launch and reposition large-scale office properties, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, lifestyle-oriented amenities and best-in-class services to enhance marketability and drive operational performance. She previously spent 16 years at Hines Interests Limited Partnership, most recently serving as senior construction manager for Salesforce Tower Chicago, the 1.2 million-square-foot high-rise at 333 W. Wolf Point Drive in Downtown Chicago. In that role, Murphy oversaw the base building construction and managed the construction, FF&E and transition to operations for the tower’s 20,000-square-foot amenity suite, which includes conference facilities, a full-service fitness center, tenant lounges and more.
Prior to her work on Salesforce Tower, she was general manager for 333 W. Wacker Drive (890,000 square feet), which followed successful management roles at 1 S. Dearborn St. (870,000 square feet), 101 N. Wacker Drive (600,000 square feet) and other properties owned by Hines. She also was property operations manager for Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Murphy holds an MBA with distinction from DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, with a focus on real estate finance and investment. She earned her bachelor’s degree with honors in civil engineering, with a specialty in structural engineering and a minor in urban and regional planning, from the University of California, Irvine. She is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois and holds an EIT license in California.
