When Taylor Johnson client CRG was ready to ramp up development in the Southwest and open an office in Phoenix, we knew this expansion of the firm’s national footprint – the second in four months and fifth in four years – was noteworthy. Following CRG’s announcement to co-develop The Cubes at Glendale, a 335-acre industrial park in Phoenix’s West Valley, with Arizona-based Bird Dog Industrial, we pitched an exclusive to the Phoenix Business Journal to hear why Bird Dog’s founder, Mark Sonnenberg, decided to join CRG to lead its Southwest expansion. The resulting article highlighted CRG’s plan to leverage Sonnenberg’s market knowledge and CRG’s design-build platform to bring more state-of-the-art industrial developments to Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Texas, while also prioritizing the region for multifamily development. Read more on CRG’s Southwest plans in coverage secured by TJ in Commercial Property Executive, Connect CRE and AZ Big Media.

Mark Sonnenberg joins CRG as senior vice president and partner to lead the firm’s Southwest region industrial investment activities.