In 1946, a small real estate company called Wilkinson & Snowden Inc. took root in Memphis as many of the city’s post-war expansion projects were just getting started. And though the names and faces have changed several times over the years, the culture of the company largely has remained intact for more than 70 years.

2. Crestview Collection Makes New HQ in Oakhaven - Tuesday, December 29, 2015

4300 Concorde Road
Memphis, TN 38118

Sale Amount: $6.9 million

Sale Date: Dec. 15

Buyer: CLI Inc.

Seller: Lester McMahan Partnership

Loan Amount: $6 million

3. Williams-Sonoma Distribution Center Sold for $6.9 Million - Monday, December 28, 2015

The Williams-Sonoma distribution center in Oakhaven has sold for $6.9 million.

Tennessee-based CLI Inc. purchased the property at 4300 Concorde Road from California-based Lester McMahan Partnership, according to a Dec. 15 warranty deed.

4. Real Estate ‘Titans’ Share Industry Advice - Monday, May 12, 2014

In the 1980s Dan Wilkinson and Robert Snowden were deeply involved in developing Memphis International Airport Center.

5. ‘Titans’ of Commercial Real Estate Speaking - Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Listen up, commercial real estate professionals.

This week you’ll get the opportunity to interact with some of the most prolific commercial real estate practitioners in the Mid-South.

6. Massey Looks to Grow CCIM Reach - Saturday, May 3, 2014

Shawn Massey is a commercial real estate broker by trade, but he has a burning passion for education.

Massey has co-founded a business-focused charter school in Frayser called Memphis Business Academy and he teaches a master’s level real estate class at the University of Memphis.

7. Cates, Kornegay Look to Future While Honoring Colliers’ Past - Monday, April 21, 2014

The memory is scorched in Andy Cates’ mind.

It was 2005 and Cates, just 29 years old at the time, was being made a partner at Colliers International Memphis, the commercial real estate firm.

8. 2 Brokers Take Majority Stake in Colliers Memphis - Saturday, April 19, 2014

Two longtime members of Colliers International's Memphis office have taken a majority stake in the real estate company.

Andy Cates, executive vice president of brokerage, and Brad Kornegay, CEO of Colliers Management Services LLC, are now the majority shareholders in the two legal entities that make up the Memphis office.

9. 2 Brokers Take Majority Stake in Colliers Memphis - Monday, April 14, 2014

Two longtime members of Colliers International's Memphis office have taken a majority stake in the real estate company.

Andy Cates, executive vice president of brokerage, and Brad Kornegay, CEO of Colliers Management Services LLC, are now the majority shareholders in the two legal entities that make up the Memphis office.

10. Cates, Kornegay Take Majority Stake in Colliers’ Memphis Office - Friday, April 11, 2014

Two longtime members of Colliers International's Memphis office have taken a majority stake in the real estate company.

Andy Cates, executive vice president of brokerage, and Brad Kornegay, CEO of Colliers Management Services LLC, are now the majority shareholders in the two legal entities that make up the Memphis office.

11. Fresh Market, Whole Foods Seek Approval From Boards - Thursday, November 28, 2013

Two planned high-profile grocery stores will be seeking regulatory approval in the coming weeks.

The Fresh Market is applying for a special-use permit from the Land Use Control Board Dec. 12 to convert the existing Ike’s store on Union Avenue into one of the chains upscale grocery stores.

12. Teaching New Dogs Timeless Tricks - Tuesday, May 21, 2013

You might say that I’m a veteran in the real estate industry. A half a century in the business probably earns me that title. Much has changed since my uncle Russel Wilkinson and partner Robert Snowden founded Wilkinson & Snowden in 1946, the predecessor company to today’s Colliers International office in Memphis. In fact, Russel and Bob were the first to develop industrial real estate of any consequence here. Today there are more than 220 million square feet of industrial space in the Memphis metropolitan market.

13. Merchandiser Five Below Signs Lease in Olive Branch - Friday, October 5, 2012

A growing Philadelphia-based value retailer has inked a substantial industrial lease deal in Olive Branch.

Five Below Inc. has leased 605,427 square feet in Hacks Cross Logistics Center Building 1, 9105 Hacks Cross Road.

14. DeWitt to Steer Council With Passion for Real Estate - Friday, September 28, 2012

Greg deWitt’s history degree doesn’t necessarily come into play during his day-to-day leasing of office space, but it speaks to his early-on fascination with the built environment and the movers and shakers who helped to create it.

15. Hillwood Buys Industrial Portfolio for $37M - Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Hillwood Investment Properties has bought an industrial portfolio in Southeast Memphis for $37.25 million from TIAA Realty Inc., augmenting the Dallas-based commercial real estate firm’s budding local footprint.

16. Hillwood Buys Industrial Portfolio for $37M - Monday, July 16, 2012

Hillwood Investment Properties has bought an industrial portfolio in Southeast Memphis for $37.25 million from TIAA Realty Inc., augmenting the Dallas-based commercial real estate firm’s budding local footprint.

17. StyleCraft Signs Lease At Airways Building E - Friday, July 13, 2012

Home decor company StyleCraft Home Collection Inc. has signed a 167,600-square-foot lease at Industrial Developments International’s Airways Distribution Center Building E.

18. Former Mazda Warehouse Sells for $13.5M - Friday, February 10, 2012

The former Mazda North America Inc. distribution center in DeSoto County has been acquired by Hillwood Investment Properties for $13.5 million.

19. Hillwood Pays $13.5M For Former Mazda Warehouse - Thursday, February 9, 2012

The former Mazda North America Inc. distribution center in Olive Branch has been acquired by Hillwood Investment Properties for $13.5 million.

20. Hillwood Buys Former Mazda Warehouse for $13.5M - Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The former Mazda North America Inc. distribution center in Olive Branch has been acquired by Hillwood Investment Properties for $13.5 million.

21. Wilkinson Follows Road Less Traveled - Thursday, November 3, 2011

During his 50-year tenure in real estate, Dan Wilkinson helped establish the Memphis office of Colliers International as one of the dominant industrial real estate companies in the local market and has been involved in more than $1 billion in sales in Memphis and North Mississippi.

22. Colliers’ Wilkinson Receives Tom Richardson Award - Monday, October 3, 2011

Dan Wilkinson, chairman of Colliers International Memphis, recently was presented the 2011 Tom Richardson Award at the 2011 Colliers International National Meeting in Chicago.

23. Investing in Memphis - Tuesday, September 27, 2011

You’d have to have been hiding under a rock for the last several years not to know that real estate values have dropped across the board. Whether it’s residential or any type of commercial real estate, you’ll hear it said over and over that it is a buyer’s market. That may be a reasonably accurate generalization, but when it comes to commercial real estate, “location, location, location” alone hasn’t been sufficient investment criteria for today’s buyers.

24. DuBois Pioneer In Biz Media - Friday, June 17, 2011

When Barney DuBois helped spearhead the launch of the Memphis Business Journal in 1979, he had no way of knowing that his efforts would forever change the media landscape in the Mid-South.

25. Pinnacle Awards Honor City’s Best Brokers - Monday, April 11, 2011

As emcee Dan Conaway noted in his opening address Thursday night at the 10th annual Pinnacle Awards, “OK is the new great.”

26. Pinnacle Awards Honor City's Best Brokers - Friday, April 8, 2011

As emcee Dan Conaway noted in his opening address Thursday night at the 10th annual Pinnacle Awards, “OK is the new great.”

27. Shifting Gears - Monday, February 7, 2011

Memphis has long been a real estate town.

Family names like Belz, Boyle, Clark, Fogelman, Loeb, Snowden and Wilkinson – to name a few – have become synonymous not only with local commercial and industrial development but also with the city’s business fortunes and cultural identity.

28. Grubb & Ellis’ deWitt Appointed To MAAR Commercial Council - Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Greg deWitt of Grubb & Ellis Co. has been appointed to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council. He will take over one of the council’s director seats next year before becoming the council’s vice president in 2012.

29. Colliers to Rebrand Following Joint Venture - Tuesday, June 15, 2010

One of the oldest and most respected commercial and industrial real estate firms in town will see a name change this summer.

Colliers Wilkinson Snowden, the brokerage services company founded in 1946 by Bob Snowden and Russell Wilkinson, within the next two months will be known simply as Colliers International.

30. Weathering the Storm - Friday, October 16, 2009

The commercial real estate story in DeSoto County is much broader than a single retail property, but the myriad departures and arrivals at the open-air Southaven Towne Center perhaps sum up the county’s market better than anything else.

31. Numbers Show Industrial Real Estate Taking Plenty Of ‘Licks’ - Friday, June 19, 2009

A healthy industrial real estate market is imperative for Memphis to live up to its longtime moniker of “America’s Distribution Center” or its new one of “America’s Aerotropolis.”

In other words, a viable warehouse sector – which bolsters the city’s ability to store goods before they’re distributed and supports the city’s robust transportation assets – is mission critical no matter how the city’s marketing is phrased.

32. Norfolk Southern, Fayette Move Closer to Intermodal Marriage - Friday, May 15, 2009

The South Fayette Alliance on Wednesday night began the process of endorsing a site where the group wants Norfolk Southern Corp. to build its proposed intermodal facility, although it didn’t reach a formal position.

33. Jones Ascends to High-Level Position At Army Corps of Engineers - Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Carol Winfield Jones has been selected as chief, project development branch and assistant to the deputy district engineer for project management for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District.

34. Memphis Might be 'Losing Its Edge' in Attracting Industry - Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Ernie Mrozek, president and CFO of ServiceMaster, sat at the head of a table lined with members of Memphis' Industrial Development Board Sept. 28 during a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) evaluation meeting.

35. Cabot Scoops Up Ninth Memphis Property - Tuesday, October 10, 2006

4105 S. Mendenhall Road
Memphis, TN 38115
Sale Amount: $3 million

Sale Date: Sept. 18, 2006

Buyer: Cabot II-TN1W07 LLC

36. Pricey Merchandise - Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Earlier this year, the Gary Myers Co. sold a 17,000-square-foot office warehouse at 3121 Bartlett Corporate Center Drive to an investment group for $1.5 million. The multi-tenant building, purchased by BCH Investments, is a short drive from Interstate 40 and counts big users like Brother International Corp. as neighbors.

37. Commercial Advisors' Jensen Voted Commercial Broker of the Year - Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Larry Jensen has received the 2005 Pinnacle Award for Commercial Broker of the Year from the Memphis Area Association of Realtors' Commercial Council. Jensen is president and CEO of Commercial Advisors LLC. He has more than 30 years of experience in real estate.

38. Area Industrial Market Fuels Optimism - Wednesday, November 16, 2005

The debate is heating up over a possible shake-up in the way tax breaks are handed out locally. But the idea doesn't appear to have roiled the industrial real estate market or sent developers and landowners scurrying over the county line just yet.

39. Memphis Industrial Market Begins to Rebound - Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Optimism and recovery are key words for Memphis' industrial real estate market, with vacancies on the decline and a healthy level of new product being delivered in the market.

"The overall national economy has finally turned the corner," said Jim Mercer, executive vice president of industrial services with the Memphis office of CB Richard Ellis. "We feel momentum will continue through the end of this year."

40. Archived Article: Newsmakers - Wednesday, April 6, 2005
MAAR Pinnacle Awards Winners Announced

MAAR Announces Pinnacle Award Winners

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors announced the following winners of the fourth annual Pinnacle Awards: Al Andrews Jr. of Panattoni Development Co., Commercial...

41. Archived Article: Lead - Friday, March 11, 2005
Changing Market Concerns Some Commercial Investors

Commercial Sales Feel Economic Impact

Interest rates, cap rates fueling real estate activity

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

With interest rates holding steady, commercial real estate acti...

42. Archived Article: Lead - Monday, February 21, 2005
Industrial Market Looks for Improvement

Industrial Market Perks Up for 2005

Prospects seeking property in Shelby, DeSoto counties

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

Month after month, quarter after quarter saw the same story in the local indu...

43. Archived Article: Lead - Friday, November 19, 2004
Industrial Market Update

Industrial Market Sees Signs of Strength

Local property sales rise, leasing remains strong

LANCE ALLAN

The Daily News

Opinions have varied during this election year of whether or not the economy is on an upswi...

44. Archived Article: Gov Focus - Friday, July 30, 2004
Brian pecon, Director of office of econ develop for

Tax Freeze Spurs Williams-Sonoma Expansion

ANDY MEEK

The Daily News

The expansion of Williams-Sonoma Inc.s Memphis distribution operations should bolster Memphis status as a major distr...

45. Archived Article: Newsmakers - Wednesday, April 28, 2004
The Memphis Area Association of Realtors honored Martin Edwards Jr

MAAR Dedicates Center in Honor of Past President

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors honored Martin Edwards Jr. with the dedication of the Martin Edwards Jr. Education Cen...

46. Archived Article: Newsmakers - Wednesday, April 21, 2004
(e-photo) Virginia M

Memphis Area Legal Services Hires Staff Attorney

Virginia M. Alexander was hired as a staff attorney with Memphis Area Legal Services Inc. to work on MALS family/domestic violence project. Alexander previously was a sole p...

47. Archived Article: Newsmakers - Wednesday, April 7, 2004
YOUTH VILLAGES NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBER

UT Bowld Hires Transplant Services Director

Barry Marshall joined UT Bowld Hospital as administrative director of transplant services. Marshall previously worked with Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati ...

48. Archived Article: Real Briefs - Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Crye-Leike Realtors

Crye-Leike Realtors concluded its 2002 United Way Workplace Campaign by raising a total of $60,739 to support United Way agencies in 32 counties in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia.

Since becoming a partner with...

49. Archived Article: Industrial (lead) - Monday, August 19, 2002
Industrial real estate market takes a dive

Second quarter industrial market slumps

By SUE PEASE

The Daily News

After years of seeing the industrial real estate market soar in Memphis, first and second quarter numbers showed sure signs th...

50. Archived Article: Tech Focus - Wednesday, October 10, 2001
By SUE PEASE

Dot-bombs dont bust Memphis warehousing market

By SUE PEASE

The Daily News

The dot-com businesses that at one time filled thousands of square feet of warehouse space in this city have had a long year of exiting the scene. 51. Archived Article: Marketplace - Monday, November 6, 2000
Industrial growth breaking records Industrial growth on record-breaking pace By SUE PEASE The Daily News For most of the last decade, Memphis has seen incredible growth in the industrial marketplace. Local industry representatives say it doesnt look...

52. Archived Article: Real Review - Tuesday, April 25, 2000
Trammell Crow Co Inventiv Software leases space in East Memphis Trammell Crow Co. has leased office space in Building A at Lynnfield Office Park to Inventiv Software, a Memphis-based software product development company. Inventiv Software was establ...

53. Archived Article: Back - Monday, November 15, 1999
Kansas investor buys southeast Memphis property Kansas investor buys southeast Memphis property A Texas brokering firm announced it has closed on the sale of two Memphis properties. Cushman & Wakefield of Texas Inc. announced the sale of an indu...

54. Archived Article: Attorney Graph - Tuesday, February 16, 1999
Attorney Attorney Judgments Amount ------------------------------------------------ ----------- -------------------------- Gordon & Feldbaum 226 $220,174.79 Baer Baer & Baer 220 $348,622.30 Mccullough Law Firm ...

55. Archived Article: Warehouse (lead) - Tuesday, November 3, 1998
By SUZANNE THOMPSON Warehouse construction drops in third quarter By SUZANNE THOMPSON The Daily News The number of building permits filed for warehouse construction is down from 70 in the third quarter of 1997 to 58 in the third quarter of 1998, rep...

56. Archived Article: Scit (lead) - Tuesday, June 23, 1998
By LAURIE JOHNSON Security Capital starts large-user warehouse By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News Security Capital Industrial Trust has started constructing a 500,000-square-foot speculative distribution facility at 5461 Davidson Road in Southeast Mem...

57. Archived Article: Warehouse - Thursday, April 23, 1998
By CAMILLE H Warehouse construction steady in first quarter Most major area developers have projects underway or planned By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News Warehouse construction in the first quarter remained steady in Shelby County with seven perm...

58. Archived Article: Calendar - Monday, April 20, 1998
April 21 April 21 The Society for Human Resource Management will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the Racquet Club, 5111 Sanderlin. The speaker will be U.S. Navy Capt. Ann E. Rondeau. The cost is $25 for nonmembers. For reservations, call Eloise McGee at 375-5...

59. Archived Article: Calendar - Monday, October 20, 1997
Oct Oct. 21 The Appraisal Institute will meet from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Chickasaw Country Club, 3395 Galloway. The speaker will be Dan Wilkinson of Wilkinson and Snowden, whose topic will be an overview of the current industrial real estate market. ...

60. Archived Article: Church Rd. Warehouse Lj - Tuesday, February 18, 1997
lj 10/5 cates Southaven becoming hot spot for warehouse development By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News The "next big thing" in distribution development may be shaping up in Southaven, Miss., with construction underway on one speculative ware...

61. Archived Article: Church Rd. Warehouse Lj - Tuesday, February 18, 1997
lj 10/5 cates Southaven becoming hot spot for warehouse development Feb. 18, 1997 -- The ìnext big thingî in distribution development may be shaping up in Southaven, Miss., with construction underway on one speculative warehouse project...

62. Archived Article: Warehouse 1996 Chg - Monday, January 27, 1997
96 warehouse starts show Warehouse starts show rise in square footage By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News The number of new warehouse projects started in 1996 was up slightly over 1995, but the total square footage was up almost 50 percent over a ye...

63. Archived Article: Goodyear Renov Lj - Thursday, July 18, 1996
lj 10/5 cates Renovations rolling on Goodyear distribution center By LAURIE JOHNSON The Daily News Renovations have begun on an existing warehouse facility in Memphis that will become Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.s newest regional distribution cent...

64. Archived Article: Warehouses Chg - Monday, April 8, 1996
4-8 chg warehouses Warehouses top choice for real estate investors By CAMILLE H. GAMBLE The Daily News The Memphis market for real estate investors has seen a rise in interest in warehouse and distribution properties, a trend that is parallel to one...

65. Archived Article: Real Analys - Tuesday, February 6, 1996
*02/06 Real analys 1995 market summary shows healthy absorption, vigorous market Wilkinson & Snowden Inc.s recently published 1995 Year-End Market Summary reports a remarkably healthy commercial and industrial real estate market for Memphis, in ...

66. Archived Article: Real Analys - Tuesday, December 26, 1995
12/26 Real analys Real Estate: Mavens Muse Selected Markets, Predict For 96 Contrarians seem to be as rare as leisure suits and eight-track tape players as the Memphis real estate market winds up 95 petal-to-the-metal in the residential and distribu...

67. Archived Article: Real Analysis - Tuesday, October 17, 1995
*10/17 real analysis Industrial real estate veteran remains awed by Memphis market strength Dan Wilkinson, president of Wilkinson & Snowden Inc., a major regional player in the development and leasing of industrial/distribution space, said Monda...