Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer names new senior vice presidents

Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer  has promoted James Ashby IV, Richard Thalhimer  and John K. Nielsen to senior vice president.

Ashby joined the company’s Richmond office in 2004.  He has extensive retail real estate experience focusing primarily on landlord and tenant representation as well as representing buyers and sellers of retail-owned assets. Ashby currently handles nearly 7 million square feet of retail assets and has been instrumental in the preleasing of numerous retail development projects. He leads the Richmond Retail Services Group.

Thalhimer, a retail specialist in the firm’s Richmond office,  has been with the company since 1996. He has more than 25 years of experience with a variety of product types ranging from power centers and strip shopping centers to rehab projects.

Nielsen specializes in landlord representation, tenant representation and site selection services for regional and national retailers as well as the redevelopment and leasing of adaptive reuse historic properties and mixed-use developments within downtown districts. He joined Thalhimer’s Richmond office in 2004 and in 2009 relocated to the Roanoke office where he continues retail services for western Virginia.