Andrew Dick: Hello and welcome to the Healthcare Real Estate Advisor podcast. I’m Andrew Dick, an attorney with the largest healthcare focus law firm in the country. Today we’ll be speaking with Kim Kretowicz, a national healthcare investment services broker with the Colliers Healthcare Real Estate team. Colliers is a diversified professional services and investment management company with 15,000 employees in more than 400 offices in 68 countries. Today we’re going to be talking about Kim’s practice and her new position leading the South Florida Healthcare Investment Services team, her background and some of the trends in the healthcare real estate industry.

Kim, thanks for joining me.

Kim Kretowicz: Thank you, Andrew. Appreciated.

Andrew Dick: Well, Kim, tell us where you’re from and how you ended up getting into the real estate business.

Kim Kretowicz: So I’m from a small, somewhat, we call it town in New Jersey called Rumson, and I was raised in the real estate business with my father who was a land developer, residential land developer and residential brokerage firm. And with him I enjoyed seeing value being created from dirt. He’d drive around farms, meet with the farmers, and next thing there was a development of many, many homes. And to me it was amazingly interesting to see that. With that I went to college, I went to Marymount in Arlington, Virginia. And I was fortunate enough to have a visiting Georgetown professor teach our business classes and he was very encouraging with the women to encourage a career in business.

From that point I’m in DC and again, my love for real estate was transferred to taking a position, my first job was with Cushman & Wakefield and Leasing starting in DC and then ending up going back to New Jersey and starting my career in New Jersey, the Tri-state with Cushman & Wakefield.

Andrew Dick: So talk a little bit about handling leasing work for Cushman in New Jersey. I know you worked on a large project and that really started what would be kind of the growth of your practice.

Kim Kretowicz: Yeah. Yes. Back in the early ’90s Jersey City was significantly less than what it is, Harborside was the only true commercial development the