Mike Zoob's Real Estate Perspective: From All Sides of the Table
Mike Zoob, Vice President with GA Group Real Estate, is a seasoned real estate strategist with a distinguished career spanning over three decades.
His career is marked by an impressive track record that includes closing more than $1 billion in transaction value. His expertise is truly unique, having served on all sides of the negotiating table as a retailer, restaurant developer, consultant, and broker. This comprehensive experience allows him to approach complex real estate challenges with a rare and invaluable perspective.
Mike's career highlights include senior roles at major corporations, such as The Howard Hughes Corporation and Simon Property Group, as well as experience with Katz & Associates.
Prior to joining GA Group, this diversity of roles shaped his strategic acumen across a wide range of real estate environments, including mixed-use, neighborhood, urban high streets, regional malls, and community environments.
As a trusted advisor, Mike has been instrumental in collaboratively developing and executing numerous enterprise-wide strategic real estate initiatives.
He specializes in working in support of C-Suite client partners and has consulted and negotiated complex real estate transactions for an extensive roster of well-known national brands. His client list spans grocery, retail, banking, and fast-casual dining.
Areas of Expertise
Grocery/Retail
- Whole Foods
- Trader Joe's
- Albertsons
- Vons
- Nordstrom Rack
- JC Penney
- Ross
- Cost Plus World Market
- Victoria Secret
- Linens n' Things
- Sports Authority
- Loehmann's
- Party City
Dining
- McDonald's
- El Pollo Loco
- Burger King
- Chick-fil-A
- Chili's
- Romano's Macaroni Grill
- Rubio's
- Pick Up Stix
- Lazy Dog Café
- Five Guys
Banking
- Chase Bank
Other
- Barnes & Noble
- T-Mobile
Career Highlights
- Closed in excess of $1B in real estate transactional value.
- Generated < $6M in lease re-structuring and contingent lease liability mitigation savings (Asset Management-Real Mex).
- Transacted with restaurants and retailers i.e., Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Plaza Cinema Café, Nordstrom Rack, Barnes & Noble, Albertson's, Vons Pavilions, The Sports Authority, Cost Plus World Market, T-Mobile, Victoria Secret, Party City, Chase Bank, Ross, Lazy Dog Café, Brinker International, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Burger King, El Pollo Loco, Rubio's, Pick Up Stix, El Torito, El Torito Grill, Las Brisas, Chevy's, Acapulco and Pink Taco.
- Transacted with owners/developers i.e., The Irvine Company, Simon Property Group, The Howard Hughes Corporation, Macerich, Forest City, Westfield, Donahue Schriber, Vestar and General Growth.
- Executed more than 100 anchor transactions comprising in excess of 3M SF.
- Consummated 150 restaurant transactions encompassing casual full service dining, emerging high growth concepts, and casual fast food freestanding drive-thru amassing in excess of 500,000 SF.
- Handled all aspects including, vendor pricing for all Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E) and construction of a 57,000 SF state of the art movie theater (currently operating as Cobb Theatre/Plaza Cinema Café 12) to anchor an urban Mixed-Use Class A Office Condo project in the heart of Downtown Orlando on the 2nd level. This transaction triggered a $3.5M Dollar Subsidy from the City of Orlando, which benefited our ownership group.
- Engineered a complex transaction with Chase Bank, which included a branch location, a 24-space reserved parking agreement in the attached parking garage and building/branding naming rights (Chase Plaza).
- Led T-Mobile's initial market entry plan, site selection and negotiations into Southern CA throughout Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties. Completed transactions for 45 stores that opened within a 12-month period from start to finish that included regional malls, strips, street-front and community, power centers.
- Awarded The Irvine Company - "Broker of the Year" (5 Times)
