NEWS ARCHIVE

Jeff Carey - #1 Commerical Office Producer

Congratulations are in order to Jeff Carey as he is awarded the 2010 #1 Top Office Producer by the Commercial Real Estate Council of Greater Cincinnati at the 2010 Awards Ceremony. Jeff assisted in producing nearly $67M in lease and sales revenue and leased and/or sold over 300,000 square feet in 2010. Congrats Jeff!

Michele Laumer was also among the Top Producers awarded. Michele assisted in over $13M in lease revenue and leased and/or sold approximately 308,000 square feet of commercial real estate.

Carey Laumer Commercial 2009 Million Dollar Deals

Jeff Carey and Michele Laumer were among the agents that made the list of 2009 Million Dollar Deals in this weeks Business Courier.

Jeff Carey represented Cincom in the #1 Deal of $27 Million, Michele Laumer represented Woolpert, 660 Lincoln, and Thinkronize in deals totaling over 8 million.

Congratulations Jeff and Michele.

Jeff Carey Renews Cengage Learning - 160,069 RSF

In January of this year, Jeff Carey represented Cengage Learning in the renewal of their 160,069 RSF office operation at Deerfield Crossing in Mason, Ohio. Deerfield Crossing is owned by Duke Realty Corporation.

The renewal represents the fourth assignment Carey Laumer has successfully completed with Cengage Learning over the past 10 years.

Jenna Laumer loses battle to Leukemia

Jenna, the 27 year old daughter of Michele Laumer, sadly loses her 9 month battle to Leukemia. Below is one of the final messages written by Michele in Jenna Bear's Caring Bridge Blog. Our thoughts, love and prayers go out to Michele and her family.

Writen January 10, 2010: While our hearts are overcome with sadness and loss, we are also filled with gratitude. Gratitude for the amazing blessing that Jenna was throughout her 27 years--the brave and fierce grace that she possessed all along the way. Her resiliency was remarkable and her courage seemed boundless. Little did we ever expect a week ago when she was readmitted that one week later she would no longer be with us in her physical body.

I have to say, yet again, that her appreciation for each of you, your love and friendship--really buoyed her and inspired her to travel this very challenging road since she was diagnosed on April 23, 2009. She had a deep appreciation for her medical team who she loved, all her nurses and Children's staff--too many to name but you know who you are and we will remember your kindness and compassion always. We grieve for your loss too.

I want to thank our family--Dave, Sierra, Alaina and Timmy--for your faithful and servant love. It is a privilege and an honor to be part of such a deep and abiding circle of love. It's at times like this that you realize in ever deeper ways what a blessing family is. I thank all of our extended family for your faithfulness to us--for all of your love for Jenna from the day she was born.

Our family thanks the enormous circle of friends and acquaintenances who held us up day after day with their love and support and helped us find the courage and strength to walk this path with and for our dear Jenna Bear.

Jenna, we will carry your bright and positive spirit with us for the rest of our days. Your body may be gone but your imprint on our lives will endure. You taught us to embrace every day, to be grateful for simple blessings, to not waste our one solitary life but rather to live fully, with compassion, with courage, with love, and with joy every day.

We are deeply honored to have known you Jenna Clare, and we thank you for all the gifts you have given us.

Jenna and I talked a lot about love and spirituality in our days together. She believed deeply in the power and gift of love--sharing it, giving it away, living your life with a spirit of love. I know she would want each of you to feel love and not sadness. She would want us to share our love with each other and through love, she will be united with us forever.

Humbly and with deep love and affection, on behalf of our family, I say thank you and we love you.

Namaste, Michele, Dave, Sierra, Alaina and Timmy (and Marlow)

Greetings Friends and Family, Thank you for the outpouring of love and support to our family and Timmy at this time.

Jenna asked to be cremated, and we have chosen a lovely resting place for her at Spring Grove in the new section in the woods that was recently opened--Section 144. Her remains will rest under a tree overlooking woods and a beautiful ravine with a view of the sunrise and the sunset. The location will give us lots of comfort when we visit her (and hopefully you too).

Jenna asked us to throw a party celebrating life and love, both hers and ours. At the funeral home, there will be a registry book to provide your contact information so be sure to sign in so we can get ahold of you when it's party time and the weather is warmer. Those of you who could not attend the services (or did not make it to the registry)but would like to attend the future memorial, please email peggy@clcrealty.com with your information for the invitation.

Much love, The Laumers

Michele Laumer Signs 7 1/2 Year Deal with Woolpert

Michele Laumer and Jim Thorp of Keystone Partners assist Woolpert, Inc. in leasing 19,000 SF at The Landings II in Blue Ash.

This 7 1/2 year deal will bring in 3.2M in lease revenue.

Congratulations Michele!

Jeff Carey renews Cincom Systems, Inc.

Jeff Carey represented Cincom Systems in a renewal of their Corporate Headquarters in Springdale at 55 Merchant Street.

The lease renewal was for 131,439 rentable square feet for a term of 10 years.

Cincom Systems has been a client of Carey Laumer Commercial for over 10 years.

Michele Laumer - Courier's Deal of the Week

Michele Laumer's 2M dollar deal made Deal of the Week in this week's Business Courier.

Michele was the listing agent and Scott Abernathy and Don Murphy were the tenant agents for the 15,029 SF lease at Park 42 in Sharonville.

Thinkronize (Tenant) signed a 7 year 6 month lease which commences on August 1, 2009.

Congrats Michele!

CLC Welcomes Matt Smyth

Carey Laumer Commercial is pleased to announce that Matthew H. Smyth has joined the Company as a Senior Office Specialist.

A Cincinnati native, Matt uses his extensive knowledge of the local commercial real estate market to identify viable strategic alternatives for his clients that help them leverage and maximize cost savings in the negotiation process. Matt’s approach is more as a business partner and trusted advisor than a service provider.

Prior to joining Carey Laumer Commercial Realty, Matt worked for The Staubach Company where his sole focus was on tenant representation. Matt also worked for Jones Lang LaSalle, the world’s largest full-service commercial real estate firm, where he continued as an advocate on the behalf of tenants. Matt’s knowledge of current and historical market trends, statistical and property databases, financial analysis and lease abstraction practices are great tools that he employs with each client he serves.

Michele Laumer, Principal of CLC, is pleased to welcome Matt as a dedicated team member and looks forward to combining their respective strengths in the areas of landlord and tenant representation resulting in outstanding results for their clients.

Matt, his wife and two young children live in Hyde Park and are active in various community and charitable organizations.

Beth Walter 1961 - 2007

Carey Laumer Commercial is saddened at the loss of one of our agents, Beth Walter. Beth courageously fought a 4-1/2 year battle with renal cell cancer. She passed away on September 14, 2007 at the age of 46. She is survived by her husband Tim and three sons, Tim, 23, Patrick, 20 and Nathan, 18 as well as her parents and 8 siblings (she was the oldest). Following you will find a eulogy written for Beth by Michele Laumer. May the spirit and vitality of Beth inspire all of us to appreciate every day we are alive and enjoy the blessings of good health. Thank you to everyone for your support at this difficult time.

Beth’s Eulogy

Thank you all for being here. It’s amazing to think that Beth is the common thread weaving the fabric of our lives together in this beautiful way. Two of us here have known Beth since the day she was born on May 28, 1961. Eleven of us here have known Beth since the day they were born—her eight siblings and her three sons. Many, many of us have been a part of Beth’s extended family, as sister or aunt. The rest of us have been fortunate enough to have met Beth along our own life’s journey and know her as camp counselor, teacher, coach, client, realtor, friend, neighbor, customer, or patient.

Regardless of the way in which we came to have Beth in our lives, I suspect our experience is universal. I feel quite certain that Beth loved her dear, devoted garbage man Dave and pharmacist Tom and oncology nurse Peggy and seamstress Beth and many friends with the same zest and vitality and dedication that she loved her family. Beth was a lover of life, a seeker of the truth, a bright light. She loved people; she didn’t know a stranger. She loved making people laugh and feel welcome, important, and she delighted in making whoever crossed her path feel brighter about themselves.

I had many opportunities to witness Beth in action. I met Beth when she worked for one of my very first clients in commercial real estate in 1994. We became casual friends and stayed in touch for a handful of years and in 2000, she came to work as an agent with Carey Laumer Commercial Realty. This is the place that our friendship and admiration for the other grew and deepened.

My memories are so vivid, and my own life so blessed by watching her take on cancer with courage, grace and a ruthless belief that she was going to be healed. She was laser focused on living life and not letting the fear of cancer diminish her commitment to live vibrantly and with total commitment to healing.

I’ve had the privilege of witnessing the many, many layers of healing that Beth experienced through her journey with this disease—the determination with which she claimed her life and her experience and took charge of what she would accept and what she would not.

I have watched the journey of cancer transform her heart and soul and be a grace-filled path bringing her into deeper joy and love with her parents, her family, and more recently her precious son, Tim. Being reunited with Tim in her last weeks was God’s grace incarnate, and being able to hug and see and love this beautiful man gave Beth joy and delight beyond her wildest imaginings. We are each so touched by this miracle.

I watched Beth open herself up what she would call the “gift of cancer” and she wanted to receive all that it came to teach her. She was heartened by everyone she met through it. I watched her go to doctors’ appointments and light up the entire waiting room with her disarming and uninhibited ways – striking up conversations, passing around the cookies and treats at Dr. Mannion’s office—telling the people to eat up – that it was one of the perks of cancer they needed to enjoy. “Come on, don’t be shy – eat up. That’s what they are here for,” I can hear her saying. Strangers would be taken a bit off guard at first, and by the end of their visit, they would be smiling and loving this woman who breezed in like the self-proclaimed director of hospitality and joy. She was not having any of the doom and gloom that Cancer wanted to prescribe for her or anyone with her diagnosis. She was very sure about that.

It strikes me that God selected quite an extraordinary woman to deliver the message of love, forgiveness, and joy. It’s probably not too often where you find a bright light in a radiologist’s office or an oncologist’s office or a nephrologist’s office. But I saw it time and time again, and I’m telling you it was brighter and more pure than any of us on our best of days.

Near the end, when she was lying in her own bed – one of the last days in her own home, she shared with me that she felt so full of light and that she felt hope. One of her trusted spiritual guides had told her that he saw her more full of light than at any time previously, and this gave her such joy. Riddled with tumors throughout her body, enduring great physical suffering, facing fears of leaving this physical lifetime much sooner than she had wanted, she was deeply comforted to know that she was full of light. She knew it to be true. That, dear friends, is the epitome of faith.

I believe the angel who was Beth will always be with us—she is eternal and she is extraordinary. She was too bright of a light to be extinguished by any physical passing. If Beth has her way, and you know she’s used to that, she will continue to participate in great, elaborate pranks as well as continuing to bless and encourage each of us to seek the truth, to love life and to turn our gaze to our Father, to be one with the Ascendant that she grew to love so deeply in the last few years of her life. Her Ascension mediation practice was the source of great joy, support and comfort, and she knew deep in her soul that she had discovered the Hope Diamond when this gift came into her life.

I want to personally thank Beth’s parents, Lucky and Tom Donovan and her husband Tim for their faithful love and dedication, particularly these past years and recent months. I want to thank her sons Patrick, Nathan and Tim for the joy they gave her mother’s heart. I want to thank all of Beth’s siblings and their families. I want to thank Glenda. I want to thank everyone in this room who felt moved to reach out to Beth and her family with acts of kindness and generosity, throughout her life and especially during these past few years. You need to know how much every email, every card, every flower, every meal, every phone call, every prayer, every cookie, every donation buoyed her up and delighted her heart.

I want to encourage each of us to leave this formal celebration of Beth’s life committed to incorporating lessons that she taught us. Lessons of joy, lessons of faith, lessons of love, lessons of forgiveness, lessons of trust and courage, lessons of overcoming fear, lessons of generosity, lessons of living and one of the most important she might add—the lesson of humor. I invite us to open up our eyes wider than before so we can see as Beth did the potential for shared joy and connection with every person that crosses our path, waking up with new eyes to the opportunities we are given in every day. Every moment is a gift, and Beth grew to know that deeply. I believe Beth would want to invite each of us to embrace own unique spiritual paths, to be open to God’s grace in all situations, diagnoses, and experiences.

And I feel quite certain that Beth would want to know what the heck we are crying or feeling sad about. She would tell us that she is perfect, that her life was perfect in every way, and that we are perfect too. So let’s do her proud and live our lives inspired by her example and carry her precious light, which can never be extinguished, for the rest of our lives.

Because to live on in the hearts of those we loved is not to die. It is to live. It is to live! And Beth was all about living!

Praise God for Beth’s Life

Michele Laumer Written 6/2/07

Bruce Ficke Loses Battle to Leukemia

Sadly, On July 1, 2007, Bruce Ficke, one of our agents, lost his hard-fought battle with leukemia. Diagnosed earlier this year, after many months of struggling with undiagnosed physical ailments, Bruce bravely endured chemo and spent almost three months in the hospital awaiting the day when he would be strong enough to receive a bone marrow transplant. Bruce was 56.

Bruce is survived by his wife, Vicki, son Alex and daughter Kelli.

Bruce’s primary focus while at CLC was servicing his personal residential and commercial real estate portfolio.

Bruce was a bright, good-hearted man, and he will be missed by those of us fortunate enough to know him.

Park 42 Atrium III, Sharonville is Leased 100%

Data Recognition Corporation recently leased Park 42's Atrium III in total containing 39,579 rentable square feet. The first generation space was converted from its former warehouse use and completes the north side of the building as office space. This conversion allowed the ownership, Neyra Properties, to upgrade the exterior facade such that it will complement the new office construction that is planned for the adjacent site known as Park 42 @ Kemper where up to 80,000 square feet of one-story office space is planned to be built.

Data Recognition Corporation, is a privately held corporation headquartered in Minneapolis. DRC grades and scores a variety of tests and essays taken on the high school level (ACTs, etc.). During their busiest season, DRC will bring about 500 employees to Sharonville. DRC was represented by Andy Mauk of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker, and Michele Laumer represented the Landlord.

Park 42 Atrium I currently has one vacant suite containing 3,057 rentable square feet, and Atrium II has two suites available, one offering 3,637 rentable square feet and one offering 5,045 rentable square feet. Please click on Listings/Park 42 for additional information and to view exisitng floor plans.

Neyra Properties' on-site ownership and property management is 110% committed to tenant satisfaction and service. Please consider ths location for your office real estate needs.

+/- 17 Acre Site Purchased by Amylin Ohio LLC

Jeff Carey represented Amylin Ohio LLC in the purchase of +/- 17 Acres on Lot 1 of Port Union Distribution Center located in Butler County, Ohio.

The owner, Port Union LLC, sold the site for $4,500,000 on January 31, 2007.

CLC Joins MLS

Carey Laumer Commercial Realty has joined MLS, Cincinnati Board of Realtors’ Multiple Listing Service

In order to provide our listing clients with the best, broadest exposure possible, CLC’s MLS membership allows us to post all of our commercial properties for consideration by all residential realtors (who often have residential clients needing commercial property solutions or who have spheres of influence that own businesses/have commercial real estate requirements).

CLC’s preliminary experience with MLS is proving that this additional exposure generates meaningful inquiries into our listings, particularly buildings that are listed for sale.

In addition to MLS, CLC’s listings are posted on CoStar, a third-party commercial property database that is purchased by all the major commercial real estate companies, and our listings can be viewed by both local and national members of CoStar. Of course, up-to-date information is always available on this website.

Incurring the cost of joining MLS is just one more way Carey Laumer provides service “every step of the way".

Other news: PEGGY TIMMERS IS LICENSED IN OHIO

CLC is pleased to congratulate our executive assistant, Peggy Timmers, on her obtaining an Ohio real estate salesperson license in June. Peggy’s desire to be able to do more to help service our clients’ and agents’ needs motivated her to get licensed. Way to go Peggy!

CLC Assists Clients with Space Needs in 2005

Recently executed lease transactions on behalf of our clients include:

Tenant Representation:

• Seapine Software, Mason, expands 21,857 SF at 5412 Courseview Drive
• Employers Mutual Casualty, Blue Ash, leases 19,017 SF at 11311 Cornell Park Drive
• Pulsar Technologies Inc. and AXON, West Chester, LLC Lease 13,840 SF at 4992 Rialto Road
• Progressive Casualty, Sharonville, Leases 17,023 SF at 11598 East Kemper Road
• Ipsos ASI, Springdale, Leases 26,233 SF at 11499 Chester Road
• Drs/Bonded, Sycamore Township, Leases 14,018 SF at 7731 E. Kemper Road

Landlord Representation:

• Turner Construction, CBD, Renews and Expands 6,179 SF at 250 W. Court Street
• Amerigroup Mortgage Inc., Sycamore Township, Leases 10,640 SF at 7730 Montgomery Road

Please call us so we can let you know how we can put this relevant experience to work for you.

The Business Courier Spotlights CLC Realty

Karen Bells of the Business Courier focused on our "small but mighty" firm in her January 14, 2005 Growth Strategies column. We are grateful that Karen captured the essence of our growing firm. Please click on the following link to read a full copy of this exciting article and learn more about why Carey Laumer Commercial is the firm of choice for building owners and companies looking to form a long-term strategic relationship. View article.