Transwestern Real Estate Services announces the addition of JC Griffin as vice president in the firm’s Capital Markets group. Based in Chicago, Griffin will focus on deal sourcing and execution in urban core and opportunistic markets, collaborating with Transwestern’s local leaders and capital markets experts to deliver comprehensive investor strategies that drive value for the firm’s clients and partners.
Griffin joins Transwestern from Avison Young’s Development Services and U.S. Capital Markets Group, where he led investment sales transactions and the procurement of urban-centric development and project management assignments. Previously, he focused on tenant representation and retail investment sales, advising institutional and high-net-worth investors, family offices and conventional landlords with the disposition, leasing and valuation of retail and office assets. Earlier in his career, Griffin managed personnel, facilities and communications in the public sector, and served as a liaison to the White House Opportunity & Revitalization Council.
Griffin is graduate of the national Real Estate Associate Program and the Urban Land Institute’s Commercial Real Estate Academy. He is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois, Florida and North Carolina, and an alumnus of the John Marshall Law School and North Park University. He served in the United States Air Force, fulfilling eight collective years in the U.S. Department of Defense as an enlisted aviator and Iraq War veteran.
