Consulting & Advisory to Maximize Opportunity
Simplifying Strategy
9th Green Advisors is a strategic real estate consulting and advisory firm. Our mission is to assist real estate investors, occupiers, and service providers analyze difficult situations and make decisions which optimize strategic outcomes.
Asset Types
Office
Hospitality
Industrial
Retail
Expertise Provided
Executive leadership and change management
9th Green Advisors offers a wealth of experience in the creation, management, and successful organization of some of the real estate industry’s leading companies. Navigation through business cycles, growth and contraction phases, and personnel changes can be difficult, and 9th Green can provide valuable insight into complex situations to make optimal decisions.
Acquisition and disposition analysis and strategy
Utilizing broad capital markets experience, 9th Green can help firms optimize market, asset and negotiation strategies, whether on the buy or sell side.
Financing strategy
9th Green advises owners, developers, and purchasers of commercial real estate on the appropriate capital strategy, whether on a transactional or portfolio basis. This applies to the entire capital stack from equity to debt, as well as all hybrid vehicles, in order to optimize client returns.
Workout and restructuring advisory
Work with owners of and/or lenders to properties where there are levels of distress which need to be resolved.
Corporate restructuring and alignment
9th Green executive leadership has vast experience in enterprise management, corporate restructuring and aligning corporate strategy with reward/compensation of key professionals.
Brokerage oversight
Since 9th Green is not a brokerage firm, and yet possesses a wealth of successful brokerage experience, we perform quality control, process management, investor due diligence and bid optimization to insure that the clients’ interests are being fully met by the broker leading the transaction.
Go, no-go leasing Decisions
9th Green assists occupiers on development of leasing strategy, working with brokers, architects and space planners to coalesce around the optimal long-term approach and execution. Additionally, 9th Green works with owners on analyzing prospective leases and the potential for value creation/value erosion of such transactions.
Expert testimony
Based upon the depth of experience of 9th Green senior executives, the firm can assist law firms, and other parties to litigation via expert testimony on complex real estate issues.
Earl Webb
Founder and Co-Managing Partner
Mr. Webb has been deeply involved in all aspects of commercial real estate for over 35 years. He began his career in 1981 as an investment banker in the Capital Markets division of Continental Bank (now Bank of America). From there he joined the Corporate Finance Group at LaSalle Partners in 1985 where he was instrumental in the growth and development of their Capital Markets practice, ultimately running that business in North America and chairing the JLL Global Capital Markets Board (and was a member of JLL’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors).
He also served five years as CEO of the Americas for JLL, immediately after the mergers of LaSalle Partners, Jones Lang Wootten and Compass which formed now-JLL. As advisor to some of the US’s largest investors and occupiers of commercial real estate, Mr. Webb has advised on transactions totaling over $30 billion in asset value over his career. He joined Avison Young in 2009 as President of US Operations, driving growth in AY’s US business from zero to over $500 million in revenue during his 11 years in that role (Mr. Webb also has served on AY’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors throughout his tenure at the firm).
Mr. Webb holds a BS in Commerce (Finance and Accounting) from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. He currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB), and has also served on the public boards of both JLL and Players International. He has been involved in numerous industry organizations throughout his career, including ULI, ICSC, and the Real Estate Roundtable. He is also on the UVA Planned Giving Council and on the McIntire School’s Foundation Board.
Mr. Webb has been deeply involved in all aspects of commercial real estate for over 35 years. He began his career in 1981 as an investment banker in the Capital Markets division of Continental Bank (now Bank of America). From there he joined the Corporate Finance Group at LaSalle Partners in 1985 where he was instrumental in the growth and development of their Capital Markets practice, ultimately running that business in North America and chairing the JLL Global Capital Markets Board (and was a member of JLL’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors).
He also served five years as CEO of the Americas for JLL, immediately after the mergers of LaSalle Partners, Jones Lang Wootten and Compass which formed now-JLL. As advisor to some of the US’s largest investors and occupiers of commercial real estate, Mr. Webb has advised on transactions totaling over $30 billion in asset value over his career. He joined Avison Young in 2009 as President of US Operations, driving growth in AY’s US business from zero to over $500 million in revenue during his 11 years in that role (Mr. Webb also has served on AY’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors throughout his tenure at the firm).
Mr. Webb holds a BS in Commerce (Finance and Accounting) from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. He currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB), and has also served on the public boards of both JLL and Players International. He has been involved in numerous industry organizations throughout his career, including ULI, ICSC, and the Real Estate Roundtable. He is also on the UVA Planned Giving Council and on the McIntire School’s Foundation Board.
Tom Wattles
Co-Managing Partner
Mr. Wattles career in real estate spans over forty years. He began his career with Baxter International Inc., with a focus on international treasury. In 1978, he joined LaSalle Partners as Assistant to the Chairman, targeting finance and strategy. During his tenure there, Mr. Wattles co-founded the Mexico City and New York City offices of LaSalle. In 1991, Tom joined real estate private equity firm Security Capital Group, and while managing director, co-founded Security Capital Industrial Trust (now ProLogis, Inc.), where he served as CO-CEO until 1997, continuing as Chairman until 1998, and board member until 2002.
From 1997 to 2002, he served as Chief Investment Officer of Security Capital Group and sat on investee boards in Europe and the United States across multiple asset classes, including retail, office, industrial, parking, and residential. In 2003, he co-founded DCT Industrial Trust and served as Executive Chairman from 2003 to 2016. As Chairman Emeritus, he helped guide the growth of the enterprise to a successful $8.4 billion merger with Prologis, Inc. in 2018. Mr. Wattles received his BA with Distinction from Stanford University in 1974 and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1976.
Today, Mr. Wattles serves on the boards of Regency Centers and Columbia Property Trust where he chairs the audit committees and also sits on the investment committees. He also sits on the board of Advance Real Estate, a large industrial owner, operator and developer in Mexico and on the board of Delin Properties, a European logistics space platform.
Mr. Wattles career in real estate spans over forty years. He began his career with Baxter International Inc., with a focus on international treasury. In 1978, he joined LaSalle Partners as Assistant to the Chairman, targeting finance and strategy. During his tenure there, Mr. Wattles co-founded the Mexico City and New York City offices of LaSalle. In 1991, Tom joined real estate private equity firm Security Capital Group, and while managing director, co-founded Security Capital Industrial Trust (now ProLogis, Inc.), where he served as CO-CEO until 1997, continuing as Chairman and board member until 2002.
From 1997 to 2002, he served as Chief Investment Officer of Security Capital Group and sat on investee boards in Europe and the United States across multiple asset classes, including retail, office, industrial, parking, and residential. In 2003, he co-founded DCT Industrial Trust and served as Executive Chairman from 2003 to 2016. As Chairman Emeritus, he helped guide the growth of the enterprise to a successful $8.4 billion merger with Prologis, Inc. in 2018. Mr. Wattles received his BA with Distinction from Stanford University in 1974 and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1976.
Today, Mr. Wattles serves on the boards of Regency Centers and Columbia Property Trust where he chairs the audit committees and also sits on the investment committees. He also sits on the board of Advance Real Estate, a large industrial owner, operator and developer in Mexico and on the board of Delin Properties, a European logistics space platform.
Contact
9th Green Advisors, LLC
5600 N. River Road Suite 800
Rosemont, IL 60018
312-961-1034
9th Green Denver Office
536 S. Race St.
Denver, CO 80209
303-408-9671