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Susie Glass

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sglass@metro1properties.com

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April 23, 2009

Commercial Real Estate News

Metro 1 Properties launches hospitality group with veteran team

Miami, FL- Metro 1 properties has just launched a new division, the M1 Hospitality Group, specializing in the sales, management, leasing and consulting for hospitality, resort and leisure properties. With tens of thousands of hotel rooms in south Florida and a tourist based economy, Metro 1 began focusing on the hospitality sector almost four years ago. In a move to consolidate this effort, Metro 1 solicited the expertise of Fran Clougherty, who recently joined the team as Senior Vice President of Investment Sales in the group and Alex Duff, as Senior Associate in the restaurant/bar division. Since 1990 Fran has brokered several hundred million dollars of South Florida real estate transactions. These sales include the Days Inn Miami, the site for the W South Beach, the Governor, Nash, and other hotels. He was involved in the sale of the Strand (later the Living Room), Bang, Embers, the Cabaret, in addition to many other restaurants and night clubs. Alexander Duff, a native New Yorker, began his real estate career in 2002 specializing in the purchase and sale of restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. Some of Alex’s most notable deal include: Mokai Lounge/ Mama Vieja; Halo/ Hemisphere; Indomania/ Siembra; Tunelli/ Oasis; Hakan/ Dab Haus; Amendment 21/ Gigi Bistro; Fiore Pizza/ Pizza Power; Scrapbar/ Gil’s Café; Rabbit’s foot/ Loading Zone; and the restaurant at the Tudor Hotel. Also on the team are Fabian Graff, Senior Investment Associate and Thomas Conway, a junior research and marketing associate.

Some of the services the M1 Hospitality Group will offer include: valuation services, hospitality consulting, feasibility studies, strategic planning, site selection and disposition strategies, PR and lifestyle branding and LEED Commissioning for commercial interiors.

The M1 Hospitality Group aims to be South Florida’s premier hospitality brokerage and consultancy group specializing in the sales, management, leasing and consulting for hospitality, resort and leisure properties and ventures.  The hospitality team at Metro 1 can help you find a location or buyer for your hotel, golf course, resort or leisure venture. The group also provides clients with an array of value-added, hospitality related services such as valuation, feasibility studies, strategic planning, and site-selection and disposition strategies. For boutique hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues and other hospitality properties, creating a strong lifestyle brand is essential to the project’s success. The M1 Hospitality Group can assist with branding projects, finding the right operator, locating the perfect tenant and creating a public relations campaign. Whether the property is a single building or part of a multi-property portfolio, the M1 Hospitality Group has the resources, knowledge and experience to achieve results.

Based in Miami, Metro 1 Properties Inc. is a boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm dedicated to providing a superior level of advisory and transaction services for clients conducting business throughout the world. Metro 1 Properties offers clients the services of a vertically-integrated, full service brokerage with a unique twist: the power of an advertising firm as well. Our services include commercial sales and leasing, landlord and tenant representation, sustainability services, M1 debt and equity finance and M1 marketing. Our focus is to build sustainable communities and effect the redevelopment of the urban core through strategic alliances with private investors, developers, landlords, retailers, tenants and governmental entities and to promote services that are sustainable, always advocating for smart growth. Metro 1 Properties is a member of the USGBC, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, ULI, CCIM, ICSC, CIASF, RAMB, and RCA. For more information on Metro 1 Properties please visit www.metro1properties.com or call the Metro 1 Properties office at 305.571.9991.

Contact:

Susie Glass

t. 305.571.9991

sglass@metro1properties.com

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April 14, 2009

Commercial Real Estate News

Metro 1 Properties aligns with Midgard Management, one of South Florida’s premier commercial property management companies

MIAMI, FL – Metro 1 Properties and Midgard Management have officially consummated a strategic partnership, Metro-Midgard Alliance, expanding both companies’ commercial real estate platforms, allowing the firms to offer integrated brokerage, consulting and management solutions to landlords, tenants, investors and sellers of commercial real estate. Midgard Management is one of South Florida’s leading commercial property management companies with several million square feet under management. Metro 1 Properties is South Florida’s premier commercial real estate brokerage and investment firm focused on sustainable real estate initiatives. Both companies share a vision to create a more sustainable future by advocating best management practices, smart growth, urban re-development and efficient building operations.

Midgard’s managed properties include office buildings, retail centers, industrial buildings, and commercial condominium associations. One example of Midgard Management’s implementation of green policies and procedures is on the company’s 466,000 square foot campus, Crown Center in the Cypress Creek market of Fort Lauderdale.  Crown Center is a 1980’s era suburban low-rise building that is situated on 23 acres of land.  The property was not developed with any energy efficiencies and was never intended as such; yet within less than a year, the property was registered with the USGBC for LEED for Existing Buildings. Crown Center is home to one of the first gut-rehabilitated Silver LEED registered buildings in South Florida. The building is anticipated to achieve this certification by the end of 2009. Crown Center will be one of the first buildings in South Florida once the building’s LEED certification is achieved. Midgard Management is a member of the USGBC, and the BOMA Green Committee.

The Metro Midgard Alliance will give clients the comfort of institutional grade organization and relationships while maintaining a boutique, hands approach to customer service.

“In this market it is critical to create strategic alliances with leaders in their respective segments of the industry, thereby offering our customers the best service possible in a very challenging climate”, says Tony Cho, president of Metro 1 Properties.

“Many large firms claim to be experts at everything. There are inherent conflicts in that model which do not exist in our model.  We know what we do well and we leave the rest to our expert partners.”

Based in Miami, Metro 1 Properties Inc. is a boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm dedicated to providing a superior level of advisory and transaction services for clients conducting business throughout the world. Metro 1 Properties offers clients the services of a vertically-integrated, full service brokerage with a unique twist: the power of an advertising firm as well. Our services include commercial sales and leasing, landlord and tenant representation, sustainability services, M1 debt and equity finance and M1 marketing. Our focus is to build sustainable communities and effect the redevelopment of the urban core through strategic alliances with private investors, developers, landlords, retailers, tenants and governmental entities and to promote services that are sustainable, always advocating for smart growth. Metro 1 Properties is a member of the USGBC, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, ULI, CCIM, ICSC, CIASF, RAMB, and RCA. For more information on Metro 1 Properties please visit www.metro1properties.com or call the Metro 1 Properties office at 305.571.9991. For more information on Midgard Management please visit www.midgardmanagement.com or call the Midgard Management office at 954.771.6714.

Contact:
Susie Glass
t. 305.571.9991
sglass@metro1properties.com

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April 14, 2009

Commercial Real Estate News

Alexander Duff joins Metro 1 Properties

Miami, FL – Metro 1 Properties, Inc. welcomes Alexander Duff as a Senior Associate in the M1 Hospitality Group. Mr. Duff has nearly 7 years of active Miami commercial real estate experience, and over twenty years of active restaurateur experience. Mr. Duff, a native New Yorker, started his career in the restaurant business and in 1989 he opened his first restaurant in Miami Beach, A Fish Called Avalon, at the age of twenty-four. This was followed by the openings of Miami-based restaurants American Bistro, Rebar and Pacific Time in addition to Pacific East located in the Hamptons, NY. Duff has specialized in buying and selling restaurants, bars, and nightclubs for his customers. Some notable deals that Mr. Duff has successfully closed include: Mokai Lounge/ Mama Viejas; Halo/ Hemisphere; Insomnia/ Sempra; Tunelli/ Oasis; Hakan/ Dab Haus; Amendment 21/ Gigi Bistro; Fiore Pizza/ Pizza Power; Scrap bar/ Gil’s Café; Rabbit’s foot/ Loading Zone; and the restaurant at the Tudor Hotel which he sold twice.

Alex has an extensive hospitality real estate network in New York and works with Cain NYC and the Brier Group, among others, scouting locations in Miami. In 2007 and 2008, Alex worked on the Island Gardens project as the exclusive real estate consultant for restaurant, lounge and nightclub retail leasing at the Shops at Island Gardens, a project that will include a mega-yacht marina and in due for completion in 2012. Alex also works as a restaurant consultant with several clients focusing on new concepts or improving their existing concept. Alex has always had a passion for the restaurant business and has become increasingly interested in marketing, cost analysis, and working with chefs on the creative side of the kitchen.

Based in Miami, Metro 1 Properties Inc. is a boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm dedicated to providing a superior level of advisory and transaction services for clients conducting business throughout the world. Metro 1 Properties offers clients the services of a vertically-integrated, full service brokerage with a unique twist: the power of an advertising firm as well. Our services include commercial sales and leasing, landlord and tenant representation, sustainability services, M1 debt and equity finance and M1 marketing. Our focus is to build sustainable communities and effect the redevelopment of the urban core through strategic alliances with private investors, developers, landlords, retailers, tenants and governmental entities and to promote services that are sustainable, always advocating for smart growth. Metro 1 Properties is a member of the USGBC, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, ULI, CCIM, ICSC, CIASF, RAMB, and RCA. For more information on Metro 1 Properties please visit www.metro1properties.com or call the Metro 1 Properties office at 305.571.9991.