Commercial Investment Real Estate

SEP-OCT 2017

Commercial Investment Real Estate is the magazine of the CCIM Institute, the leading provider of commercial real estate education. CIRE covers market trends, current developments, and business strategies within the commercial real estate field.

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COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE 22 September | October 2017 The 1980s and 1990s were decades of growth and expansion for CCIM designees and members. Through the years, this second genera- tion of CCIM designees has molded the Institute, but also focused on mentoring the next generations for leadership positions. "I have a passion for my pin — giving back but also for learning," says Barbara Ann Monahan, CCIM, who has served on the Board of Directors and many national committees since 1989. "CCIMs understand that it is more than a pin and more than a designa- tion. It's a people network for building relationships." Through these two pivotal decades, CCIM Institute attracted members such as Byron Smith Sr., CCIM, who had trained as an attorney and attended business school in finance; Joseph Fisher, CCIM, who owned a securities company and began selling real estate; and Ron Myles, CCIM, who had been an accountant for Arthur Andersen. Smith, Fisher, and Myles not only earned their designa- tions, all three became CCIM instructors. Myles and Fisher also became presidents of the Institute. "Bob Ward was my mentor — working with him deepened my curiosity," says Fisher, owner and president of Fisher Investment Real Estate in India- napolis. "I admired and have tried to emulate his ability to engage students in the classroom and bring them along in their knowledge of the curriculum." CCIMs were impressive, well-trained, sharp commercial real estate professionals, with a street- wise approach, according to Smith. "CCIM train- ing showed me different ways to look at problems," Covering More Bases CCIM Institute branched out to recruit new designees beyond brokers during the 1980s and 1990s. by Sara S. Patterson THE FIFTH OF SIX STORIES ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF CCIM INSTITUTE "I didn't consciously set out to break the glass ceiling. But I never thought that I couldn't do it either. I had my boxing gloves on that whole set of meetings in 1993 when I was a candidate for the first vice president, and I was there with all my plans spelled out." — BK Allen

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