Meeting Speaker for July 29, 2013 - Garrick Brown

Garrick Brown, this week’s speaker joined Cassidy Turley in October 2010 following a stint with Colliers. He currently serves as the Director of Research for Cassidy Turley in Northern California and National Director of Retail Research for Terranomics and the ChainLinks Retail Advisors.  ChainLinks Retail Advisors Group is a consortium of more than 30 leading commercial real estate brokerages across the United States that focus primarily upon retail real estate.

A keen student and reporter of the changes in our shopping and delivery systems, our speaker will give us an inside look at e-commerce trends, directions and maybe a peak at the future.   From our local grocery changes to our shopping on-line, we are going through a wide variety of constant change.  Come here the discussion on the rumors and the facts.

While Garrick manages a staff of 15 researchers and is responsible for producing the firm’s analyses and forecasts for Northern California; he also produces a number of Cassidy Turley’s national publications focusing on the investment market and frequently authors white papers on prescient commercial real estate topics. Mr. Brown is a member of the ICSC, ULI and NAIOP and active on their North American Retail Research efforts.

He has served as a keynote speaker at numerous national and regional symposiums, conferences and market forecasting events for the real estate and business community.  His reports and forecasts are regularly quoted in media publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the USA Toda in addition to our Sacramento area publications. The Terranomics and Chain Links ties put him in constant touch with the major retail market changes.

Prior to commercial real estate, Garrick served as an office manager for the law firm of Binder & Binder in Los Angeles, California. He also worked as a freelance writer and has been published in a wide range of publications including the Orange County Weekly, Kansas City Pitch Weekly, Indianapolis NUVO, Retro Magazine, Chin Music and Lounge Magazine. He also was a frequent contributor of liner notes for music releases from Del-Fi Records.

Garrick currently lives in Northern California with his wife Stacie and their three cats, following a career that started in Kansas City, encompassed Indianapolis and brought him to California.