Geoff Dowling
Principal, CTK Chicago Partners
Des Plaines, IL 60018
Phone (847) 699-2158
Mobile (847) 274-4943
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Multifamily, Health Care
Markets
Chicago
Bio
Mr. Dowling brings to our team effort thirty plus years of successful commercial/industrial real estate experience including development, consulting, corporate planning, real estate investment and general brokerage. He started his career in the mid 1970’s as a Corporate Real Estate Manager for Kraft Foods where he was responsible for leasing, acquiring, disposing and developing the corporation’s real estate. During his ten year corporate stay, he participated in the acquisition of over 400 transactions and the disposition of over 100 transactions both totaling over 10,000,000 square feet of office, industrial, and hi-tech space including many start-up manufacturing/plant operations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
In 1984, Mr. Dowling joined Rubloff Inc. (a large Midwest based real estate brokerage company) as a Vice President specializing in representing corporations in the sale, lease, or acquisition of office or industrial facilities throughout the United States. During his five years with Rubloff, Mr. Dowling completed over 4 million square feet of transactions for his clients with many satisfied repeat customers. He also successfully represented institutional owners of eight trophy office buildings totaling over 4,000,000 square feet. His marketing and leasing strategies raised occupancy levels to 94.8% during his tenure as senior leasing representative on those projects.
In 1989, Mr. Dowling joined Mesirow Financial as a Senior Vice President. He continued to provide real estate brokerage and consulting services to corporations and various institutions in the leasing, sale, acquisition, appraisal and build-to-suit areas of office, industrial, and investment-grade real estate.
