A Stirling Salute
Stirling Properties celebrates success of Team Stirling & the company.
Stirling Properties hosted a virtual Stirling Salute last Friday to acknowledge and award the team and company’s remarkable success over the past year.
Marty Mayer, Stirling Properties’ President & CEO, kicked off the company-wide event recognizing the challenges of the past year and highlighting the team’s extraordinary adaptability and response. “Like most businesses, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, our commercial business slowed substantially. But we were able to pivot quickly, adapt to the challenges—which uniquely positioned us to take advantage of the resulting opportunities,” said Mayer.
He noted the favorable position the company is in today is due to the groundwork that’s been laid over the last ten years. “As a company, we took chances, made conscious decisions without having a clear view of the outcome but rather a vision of the future possibilities. That’s the reason we were able to respond to this crisis and all the crises before that. Our accomplishments are due to the collective efforts of the entire team. You have heard me say, ‘when opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.’ Conversely, ‘when challenges come, it’s too late to prepare.’ That certainly was never truer than in 2020.”
He and Stirling Properties’ partners thanked Team Stirling for their hard work and dedication. Brokerage Division Award recipients received recognition for Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Emerald and Ruby production levels based on individual adjusted gross commissions from 2020. Special acknowledgment was also given to Rhonda Sharkawy, Senior Retail Leasing and Development Advisor in New Orleans, for achieving the Top Commercial Producer Award —this is the 6th consecutive year she has earned this accolade.
Brokerage Awards
Ruby
Rhonda Sharkawy (Top Producer), New Orleans
Justin Langlois, Baton Rouge
Emerald
Lee de la Houssaye, Covington
Chad Rigby, Baton Rouge
Diamond
Charles Cornay, Lafayette
Nathan Handmacher, Mobile
Ryan Murphy, Covington
Jason Scott, Pensacola
Platinum
Jeff Barnes, Mobile
Steve Legendre, Baton Rouge
Ryan Pécot, Lafayette
Gold Award
Joe Gardner, New Orleans
Gaines Seaman, New Orleans
Silver Award
Thomas Bryan, New Orleans
Seth Citron, Lake Charles
Amanda Goldman, Mobile
Scott Macdonald, Baton Rouge
Bronze Award
Andrew Dickman, Mobile
Jim Dowling, Shreveport
Ben Graham, Baton Rouge
Griffin Lennox, New Orleans
Angie McArthur, Mobile
Karen McElroy, Shreveport
Stacy Odom, Shreveport
Tommy Parsons, Baton Rouge
Carly Plotkin, New Orleans
Saban Sellers, New Orleans
Dottie Tarleton, Baton Rouge
Also recognized were employees and agents who achieved special anniversaries with the company. Service Awards were given for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45-year milestones.
Service Awards
45 Years of Service
Judy McKee – Covington
40 Years of Service
Michele Wallace – Covington
35 Years of Service
Marty Mayer – Covington
30 Years of Service
John Arthurs – New Orleans
25 Years of Service
Charles Cornay – Lafayette
20 Years of Service
Chris Abadie – Covington
Rhonda Creel – Covington
Beezie Landry – Covington
Patrick Malik – Covington
Ryan Pécot – Lafayette
Jeanne Taravella – Covington
15 Years of Service
Carri Creel – Covington
Lindsey Palmer – Covington
Dawn Plaisance – Covington
Tara Slater – Covington
Laura Wallace – Covington
10 Years of Service
Jason Babin – Lafayette
Carolyn Ciarrocchi – Lafayette
Gregory Gautreaux – New Orleans
Jimmy Gomez – New Orleans
Joseph Kimble – New Orleans
Solomon Lewis – New Orleans
Scott Macdonald – Baton Rouge
5 Years of Service
Jaime Burchfield – Covington
Bradley Cook – Covington
Jim Dowling – Shreveport
Amanda Goldman – Mobile
Jared Lauderdale – Covington
Carly Plotkin – New Orleans
Rebecca Pritchard – Lafayette
Lesia Richardson – New Orleans
Saban Sellers – New Orleans
Stirling Properties Welcomes Amazon to Fremaux Park in Slidell, Louisiana
Continuation of industrial expansion efforts in Fremaux mixed-use development
Amazon Logistics announced Thursday that it would build a delivery station at Fremaux Park in Slidell, Louisiana. Fremaux Park is the mixed-use property that includes Fremaux Town Center retail center, multiple multifamily developments, two hotels and the Dana Corporation Service center that will complement this project in the industrial park area.
Stirling Properties recently closed on the sale of a 30-acre land parcel for the construction of the 141,000-square-foot Amazon facility located at 1914 Town Center Parkway near the intersection of Old Spanish Trail. Groundbreaking and construction timing will be announced soon. The facility is expected to be open in early 2022.
Ryan Pécot, Senior Retail Leasing and Development Advisor with Stirling Properties, represented the landlord in the transaction.
Packages are shipped to delivery stations from nearby fulfillment and sorting centers and loaded onto trucks for final delivery to customers. This marks the first Amazon delivery station in St. Tammany Parish and the third in Louisiana. It is expected to house roughly 950 Amazon Prime vans to serve St. Tammany Parish and surrounding communities. There are 150 similar Amazon delivery stations across the U.S. Amazon said the new station would create hundreds of full- and part-time jobs.
“Stirling Properties is excited to officially welcome Amazon to Fremaux Park and provide an ideal location here in Slidell to house this facility—the first of its kind in St. Tammany Parish. This new delivery station is a continuation of our industrial real estate expansion efforts. Logistics, fulfillment and last-mile distribution centers will only play a more critical role in the future of retail and commercial real estate. We hope to attract more industrial facilities to the area to further bolster and support the economic growth of Slidell and our surrounding region,” said Townsend Underhill, President of Development for Stirling Properties.
Fremaux Park is part of the roughly 350-acre regional mixed-use development located at the southwest corner of Interstate 10 and Fremaux Avenue in Slidell, Louisiana. It includes Retreat at Fremaux Town Center luxury residential apartments, The Mason Fremaux Park apartment community (under construction), Springhill Suites by Marriott (under construction) and Dana Inc. Service & Assembly Center. The adjoining Fremaux Town Center, anchored by Dillard’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Kohl’s and Best Buy, includes more than 660,000 square feet of retail and restaurant options. Additional phases are forthcoming with added residential, retail, industrial and office park. Fremaux Park is a Stirling Properties development.
For leasing or sales information, contact Ryan Pécot at 337.572.0246 / rpecot@stirlingprop.com or Bradley Cook at 985.246.3720 / bcook@stirlingprop.com.
