HOUSTON, December 14, 2021 – Cushman & Wakefield announced today that the commercial real estate services firm has hired Mike Pittman II as a Director. He will be based in the firm’s Houston office.
“Mike has an established track record in Houston and will add significant value to our best-in-class Retail Services team,” said Clint Bawcom, Managing Principal of Cushman & Wakefield’s Houston office. “We are continually focused on attracting and retaining top talent like Mike and believe he will be a tremendous asset to the firm.”
Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Pittman was Vice President of Real Estate at Urban Partnerships Community Development Corporation (UP CDC), a 501(c)3 non-profit real estate development firm, where he oversaw acquisition, leasing, and real estate development for the company's real estate owned assets including the $38 million redevelopment of the East End Maker Hub, a 300,000-square-foot incubator for high-tech manufacturing, medical and life science, and fabrication companies.
“Cushman & Wakefield has a well-documented global history of providing quality commercial real estate services” said Mike Pittman.
“As a publicly traded company, it is my desire to provide value to our shareholders, staff and fellow brokers and I look forward to building additional relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to provide top-of-the-line service to everyone who I cross paths with.”
Pittman has a family history of real estate services with his mother as a real estate broker and father as a developer and current Deputy Director of Property Management with the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, where he oversees the entire state of Illinois’ real estate portfolio consisting of over +17M square feet of REO assets and leased space. Pittman has a BA from Prairie View A&M University, a HBCU, where he was a NCAA Division 1 baseball player. Pittman is currently pursuing his CCIM designation.