Tom Allen, CCIM
President, Principal

Tom Allen, CCIM

Gus Blass
Cushman Wakefield Sage Parnters

Gus Blass

Mrs. Johnelle Hunt
Hunt Ventures

Johnelle Hunt

T.J. Lefler
Executive Vice President, Principal

T.J. Lefler, CCIM

Mark Saviers
Principal | CWSP

Mark Saviers

Marshall Saviers
Chief Executive Officer, Principal

Marshall Saviers

Tommy L Van Zandt
Vice Chairman, Principal

Tommy L Van Zandt

President, Principal

Tom Allen, CCIM

Professional Expertise

Tom Allen works with corporate, private and public clients in many phases of the commercial real estate industry.  He is the primary contact for the Hunt Ventures commercial real estate portfolio in Northwest Arkansas where he is responsible for the development, leasing, sales, acquisition and management of all Hunt Ventures office and retail properties. In addition, Tom works with clients from a broad spectrum of individuals and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

Tom began his commercial real estate career in 1998 as a Real Estate Manager with Walmart where he led a team to identify new sites for Supercenters, Sam’s Clubs and Neighborhood Markets. In addition, he gained invaluable experience selling outlots, leasing, subleasing and selling vacant big box (dark stores) for Walmart and Sam’s Club. Tom joined Hunt Ventures in 2006 and was instrumental in negotiating the merger of the asset services division of Hunt Ventures with Sage Partners and Capitol Properties in 2016.

Professional Affiliations

  • CCIM, Past President Arkansas Chapter
  • ICSC Member
  • ULI Member

Community Leadership

  • Board Member and Executive Committee Vice President of the Rogers Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Board Member NWA Alzheimer’s Association
  • Board Member, United Bank
  • Benton County Quorum Court (2000-2022), Chairman Finance Committee (elected position)
  • First Tee of NWA Advisory Board
  • Former Rogers City Councilman
  • Deacon & Director of Life Group, First Baptist Church of Rogers
  • Leadership Rogers Class of 1996

Education

  • B.S.B.A. Business, Major – Marketing, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Cushman Wakefield Sage Parnters

Gus Blass

Hunt Ventures

Johnelle Hunt

Executive Vice President, Principal

T.J. Lefler, CCIM

Professional Expertise

T.J. Lefler has 16 years of experience working with national buyers and investment sales properties and currently serves as a Principal and Executive Vice President with Cushman & Wakefield | Sage Partners.

Accomplishments

  • Leased/Sold over 6 million commercial Square feet in Arkansas
  • 16 years of experience working with nationwide buyers and focusing primarily on statewide investment sales of all types of commercial property

Professional Affiliations

  • Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)
  • International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
  • Leadership Fayetteville Graduate, Class XXI
  • Leadership Arkansas Graduate, Class VIII

Professional Recognition

  • Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Fast 15 – 2011
  • Arkansas Business Journal Twenty in their 20s – 2011
  • Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Forty under 40 – 2018

Community Leadership

  • Member of the Dean’s Alumni Advisory Council for the Walton College of Business
  • Participant of the Susan G. Komen Ozark 2020 BigWig Campaign
  • Member Fellowship Bible Church
  • Previous board member of K-Life
  • Previous board member of the Red Cross

Education

  • BSBA in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Arkansas
Principal | CWSP

Mark Saviers

Chief Executive Officer, Principal

Marshall Saviers

Professional Expertise

Marshall Saviers, CEO of Cushman & Wakefield | Sage Partners brings over 15 years of office and industrial real estate experience and is consistently one of the top brokers in the region with an extensive client list of Fortune 500 companies. He has completed hundreds of lease transactions across the country that total millions of square feet. Additionally, he has been involved in many of the largest investment sales transactions in the state of Arkansas totaling over $150 million in the past 12-18 months.

Clients Served

  • Abbott Labs
  • Bayer Healthcare
  • Cisco Systems
  • Clorox
  • Pepper
  • Exxon
  • Fedex
  • Hewlett Packard
  • JB Hunt
  • Kellogg’s
  • Kimberly Clark
  • Mercy Health System
  • Nike
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Proctor & Gamble
  • Revlon
  • Shell Oil
  • Tyson Foods
  • Unilever
  • Vestcom

Major Transactions

  • Sale of Two Medical Buildings in Little Rock totaling 300,000 SF for $35,000,000
  • Transplace Office Building Build to Suit in Rogers for 150,000 SF
  • Multifamily/Affordable Housing Sale of 20 different properties for $35,0000,000

Accomplishments

  • Vestcom office headquarters relocation and lease negotiations across the country
  • Represent JB Hunt on many lease negotiations nationwide
  • Work with many medical systems and practices across Arkansas on build to suits, lease negotiations, etc.

Professional Affiliations

  • LEED®AP
  • Member of the Urban Land Institute

Professional Recognition

  • Three-time Member of the Arkansas 250 – Arkansas’ Most Influential Leaders
  • Northwest Arkansas Business Journal 2017 Forty Under 40
  • CoStar Power Broker

Community Leadership

  • Member of the Northwest Arkansas Council, Executive Committee
  • Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation, Board of Directors
  • University of Arkansas Technology Foundation Board
  • Children’s Hospital Board, Northwest Arkansas

Education

  • BBA from Southern Methodist University
Vice Chairman, Principal

Tommy L Van Zandt

Professional Expertise

Tommy Van Zandt has 34 years of experience in commercial real estate in the Northwest Arkansas, Dallas and Texas markets with a focus on corporate services/tenant representation, office development, owner representation, property management consulting, and site acquisition. He currently serves as Sr. Vice President Cushman & Wakefield | Sage Partners and is an original founding member of Sage Partners.

Before forming Sage Partners, Tommy served as Sr. Vice President of Transwestern Commercial Services Dallas Office Division responsible for overseeing property management and leasing of a 10 million square foot commercial office building portfolio.

Clients Served

  • Prudential Real Estate Investors, Transwestern, Disney, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Purina, Delta Electronics Group, Ernst & Young, among many others.

Accomplishments

  • PepsiCo, tenant representation, site selection, negotiated build to suit. Provided PepsiCo with the best option for their Walmart sales operations meeting their cost expectations
  • Nestlé, tenant representation for Walmart sales operations
  • Disney, tenant representation for Walmart sales operations
  • Professional Affiliations
  • CEO Forums/Elevate

Community Leadership

  • Beaver Water District Citizens Board
  • City of Fayetteville Development Committee
  • Central United Methodist Church
  • Due to my quadriplegic status, I speak at events around the state, faith and inspirational.

Education

  • University of Arkansas, BSBA Marketing