Kay Younglove Senior Vice President / National Director
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JONES LANG LASALLE | B I O G R A P H Y Kay Younglove Senior Vice President / National Director Current Responsibilities Kay Younglove is a thirty year veteran of the Atlanta commercial real estate industry, having successfully leased some of the city’s most high profile office buildings. She joined JLL in February 2010 and is currently responsible for marketing and leasing Paces West in Vinings, The Pavilion at 5780 Powers Ferry Road and 6t200 The Corners Parkway in Peachtree Corners. In 2013 Younglove and her JLL partners rebranded, renovated, repositioned and fully leased, Hammond Exchange, a GE owned Class A asset in Central Perimeter, bringing the vacant 250,000 sf building to 100% leased in less than 12 months and enabling GE to sell the asset for $138/sf more than the value, just one year earlier. Prior to joining JLL, Younglove, served as VP of Colonial Properties Trust, was responsible for leasing a 1.7 million sf Class A office portfolio, which included Regions Plaza and The Peachtree in Midtown, Three Ravinia Drive and 1455 Lincoln Parkway in the Central Perimeter and The Park at Windward Concourse in North Fulton. She provided oversight of the company’s marketing efforts for a 3 million sf portfolio in Atlanta while increasing occupancy of the 805,000 sf, Three Ravinia form 49% to 95%. In 2007, Younglove closed 536,880 square feet of lease transactions, valued at over $123 million and was named by NAIOP as the Top Producer for office leasing in the city. Younglove previously served as SVP of Prentiss Properties, where she oversaw the leasing and management in Atlanta. Throughout her ten-year tenure, she was also responsible for leasing One Atlantic Center, the 50 story office landmark in Midtown, along with numerous other urban and suburban assets. In 2000, Younglove closed over $90 million in lease transactions and was named for the fourth time in ten years as a top five producer for office in Atlanta. Younglove’s 301,000 sf lease with the FDIC and her 225,000 SF lease with Coca-Cola were awarded “Best Office Deal of theYear” by The Atlanta Business Chronicle. These were the largest office leases made in the city in those years and were unique in that Younglove negotiated both leases directly with the tenants, with no outside brokers. Prior to Prentiss, Younglove leased Peachtree Center, the six-tower, three million square foot multi-use complex in downtown Atlanta for five years. During the first eight years of her career, Younglove leased suburban office parks for Metro Atlanta Properties, where she oversaw leasing and property management and personally closed an average of 52 leases per year. Direct: (404)995-2225 [email protected] www.joneslanglasalle.com Jones Lang LaSalle © 2015 Jones Lang LaSalle IP, Inc. All rights reserved. All information contained herein is from sources deemed reliable; however, no representation or warranty is made to the accuracy thereof. JONES LANG LASALLE | B I O G R A P H Y Kay Younglove Senior Vice President / National Director Education & Credentials Younglove is, Vice Chair of the Board of the Dekalb Perimeter Community Improvement District and a past president and charter member of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) of Atlanta where she serves on the Past President’s Advisory Council. Younglove is a licensed real estate broker in Georgia and a graduate of Georgia State University. She previously served on the Board of Directors for Midtown Alliance, Buckhead Christian Ministry and the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors where she served on the President’s Advisory Group and now serves as Trustee of the Realtors Political Action Committee. She is an active member of NAIOP and REGA. Awards & Recognition 2015 Real Estate Forum; Women of Influence in the Southeast 2015 Atlanta Board of Realtors Phoenix Award 2014 Atlanta Bisnow: Top 40 Power Women in Atlanta Commercial Real Estate 2013 JLL Top Achiever Award 2008 Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors Top Producer, Office Leasing 2008 NAIOP Top Producer, Office Leasing 2007 Colonial Properties Award for Top Leasing Producer Nationally 1998, 1999, 2000, & 2001 Prentiss Properties Outstanding Customer Service Award 1994,1996 Prentiss Properties Presidents Award for Top Production Nationally 1994, 1996 Atlanta Business Chronicle Best Office Deal of the Year Member of NAIOP Million Dollar Club - 21 Consecutive Years Direct: (404)995-2225 [email protected] www.joneslanglasalle.com Jones Lang LaSalle © 2015 Jones Lang LaSalle IP, Inc. All rights reserved. All information contained herein is from sources deemed reliable; however, no representation or warranty is made to the accuracy thereof..