Blaine East
Blaine has more than 30 years of experience in real estate and development across the southeast region. His background includes site development, construction management, leasing, project financing, and sales. Blaine earned a BA degree in Architecture from Louisiana State University and subsequently completed a BS degree in Real Estate.
1979 - Mr. East began his real estate career in 1979 as a Project Architect. He coordinated and approved general contractors on all projects, supervising and managing approximately 40-50 units at any given time.
1981 - Mr. East moved to Dallas, Texas, where he developed and owned three million square feet of retail center, luxury hotels, and office buildings. He was involved in site selection, leasing, construction, management arranging interim and permanent financing, and the sale of the properties.
1987 - Mr. East owned a multi-faceted real estate firm in Palm City, Florida, that focused on commercial operations, performing on-going site acquisitions, contract negotiations, financial analysis, due-diligence investigations, and asset management for select clients. Mr. East has successfully structured major leases with a high percentage of cash on cost returns.
1997 - When Mr. East moved to North Carolina in 1997, he worked as the Vice President of Leasing, coordinating leasing operations for Konover Property Trust, a multi-million dollar real estate investment trust. He increased the real estate portfolio from three million square feet to 13.5 Million square feet of shopping centers. He also implemented and leased Mt. Pleasant Town Center, a 450,000 square foot open-air specialty center, which later became the flagship of the trust portfolio.
Mr. East has established a track record for successfully matching nationally recognized commercial sector clients to rewarding development niche locations. His success further includes structuring and implementing a 98- acre, 450,000 square foot power center in Apex, North Carolina. He also designed and facilitated a 160-acre mixed-use project in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, and he established and maintained relationships with new and existing clients throughout the states.
2002 - Mr. East founded and organized the sales, leasing and management team of Landcore Commercial Real Estate where he currently pursues his long-term goals and business plans as the President of the company. He has played a role in the execution and development strategies that have expanded to three million square feet in four years as well as increased national tenant representation by 200%.
Alex Lamarre
Mr. Lamarre has over 12 years of experience in logistics, project management, and business process improvement in various companies such as Wyeth, Pfizer, Kraft, Labatt, Easton Sports and Coty. Mr. Lamarre played a key role in helping those organization to improve drastically their productivity, reduce supply chain costs by millions of dollars and drive down inventory. This experience gives him a unique appreciation for what it takes to run an efficient organization that produces outstanding results.
Mr. Lamarre has a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and a Masters degree in Project Management and Industrial Engineering from the University of Montreal, Canada.
Clark D. East
Clark D. East began his real estate career in 1979. Clark is a vision-driven diversified commercial real estate developer with an extensive knowledge of all phases of real estate, property management, financing, development, leasing and construction. A multitude of experience, combined with dedication, has enabled Clark East to earn a reputation in the real estate industry as a doer.
Over the past fifteen years, Clark D. East has developed, leased and managed over 1,000,000, square feet of lease space, which has included 25 retail shopping centers, 3 office buildings, a 100 unit apartment complex and 15 build to suit projects totaling over $100,000,000.00 Major clients have included H. Ross Perot, Chase Service Corporation, Southland Corporation (7-11), Metropolitan Insurance, John Deere Insurance, Nationwide Insurance, Eckerd Drug Stores, CVS, Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s, Washington Mutual, Chili’s and Starbucks.
From 1997 – 1998 Clark East focused exclusively on the Eckerd Build to Suit Program, having performed the site selection, contract negotiations and retailer approval for 14 new free-standing Eckerd Drug Stores in the state of Florida for The Sembler Company.
In 2001 Clark formed Central Development Enterprises (CDE) and developed over $50,000,000 in new retail shopping center development. CDE is a preferred developer for Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s, Chili’s, Washington Mutual and Starbucks. In 2008, CDE was changed to CDE Development Group, LLC.
Clark has recently completed Van Dyke Commons (139,000 s/f center), Brooksville Commons (7,630 s/f center), Westside Centre (12,500 s/f center), 40th Street Plaza (8,000 s/f center), 3700 Ulmerton Road Plaza (12,500 s/f center), Sung Harbor Village (15,000), Stiles Plaza (10,000 s/f center), Bradford Coach House (20,000 s/f center), Free Standing Starbucks at 8801 4th Street N. in St. Petersburg and Round Lake I & II (10,800 s/f center).
Clark understands that the key to the success of commercial development is forming strong relationships and anticipating the needs of the retailer as well as, being able to execute and deliver sites within budget and on time. The value of any project is only as good as the leasing.
R. Keith Thompson
Mr. Thompson specializes in the acquisition, entitlement, and development of open air mixed use shopping centers, with a focus on centers anchored by movie theaters, or entertainment uses. Prior to forming two commercial real estate companies, Mr. Thompson founded and sold a small retail movie theatre chain and prior to that was one of the original members of the Regal Cinemas executive management team.
Mr. Thompson joined Regal in 1991 as Vice President of Finance, managed the company’s investor and banking relationships, oversaw the company’s accounting department, assisted in the valuation and integration of acquired theatre assets, and assisted in the company’s IPO in 1993. Subsequently, Mr. Thompson formed Regal Cinemas Real Estate Department, consisting of Development, Property Management, and Construction, and oversaw the development, construction and expansion of over 180 locations, in 32 states. Prior to joining Regal, Mr. Thompson was a Vice President of commercial lending at PNC Bank of Kentucky.
Mr. Thompson maintains a national consulting practice, working with clients on many aspects of the retail real estate industry. An active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, and past Trustee, Mr. Thompson serves on the Board of Directors of two corporations, and has participated regularly as a speaker and moderator at national real estate conferences for ICSC, ULI and other organizations.
Mr. Thompson graduated from Centre College of Kentucky in 1984 with a BS in Economics and Management, and a Minor in Psychology. He played cornerback on the intercollegiate football team, and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Mr. Thompson has pursued numerous postgraduate courses in Finance, Management, and Real Estate. Mr. Thompson earned the ICSC designation of Senior Certified Leasing Specialist.
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Jason East
Jason joined Landcore in 2005 as a Leasing Agent. Jason has extended experience in leasing, land sales, tenant consultations, build to suit development, and project entitlement. Prior to Landcore, Jason developed and operated two independent businesses. Jason studied business administration at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina.
