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Leasing

Chris Carley

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As Vice President of Leasing, Chris Carley oversees all matters relating to leasing, including new deals, renewals, and assignments for Capstone’s portfolio. Mr. Carley is a licensed attorney and has over 30 years of experience in shopping center development and leasing.

Prior to joining Capstone Advisors, Mr. Carley spent 13 years with the Lewis Group of Companies where, as Vice President of Leasing and Development he oversaw the leasing of a $550 million existing retail portfolio totaling over 5.25 million square feet as well as the leasing and development of new projects totaling 4 million square feet. Mr. Carley has also worked as an investment sales broker and spent over 13 years as a Real Estate Manager with Albertson’s.

Mr. Carley holds a Juris Doctor degree from Lewis and Clark Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Pacific University. He has a California Real Estate Brokers license and is a Member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Nick Kolbe

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Nickolas Kolbe works closely with senior management to provide analysis and research relating to the existing portfolio, new acquisitions, and dispositions. He brings with him 12 years of commercial real estate experience, dealing primarily with asset management and transaction analysis, cashflow modeling, and market research.

Prior to joining Capstone in September 2019, Mr. Kolbe was at San Diego Multifamily owner-operator MG Properties where he worked as an Asset Manager covering apartment properties in the Western United States. Before then he was an Asset Manager and Financial Analyst for mixed-use developer OliverMcMillan where he focused on ground up development projects in Houston, Phoenix, Oakland, and Honolulu. Before moving to San Diego, Mr. Kolbe held Fund and Valuations Analyst positions in San Francisco for Industrial REIT Prologis covering core markets, as well as in Oakland where he worked for brokerage firm Cassidy Turley (now Cushman & Wakefield) as Market Analyst and Salesperson.

Mr. Kolbe holds a Masters in Real Estate from University of San Diego where he earned honors recognition and led the USD 2017 Argus University Challenge team to a 1st place finish. He entered the commercial real estate business in 2007 with a BS in Business Management & Information Systems and a Minor in Economics from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.