Real Estate 2024: CHRIS MOLIVADAS

Molivadas has been in commercial real estate for more than 30 years. He previously was senior vice president at Spaulding & Slye Colliers, which was acquired by JLL in 2005, and he became JLL’s mid-Atlantic market director in 2018. Before that, he was a project manager for Clark Construction and a project director for Quadrangle Development.

JLL, a global commercial real estate and investment management company, reported 2023 revenue of $20.9 billion. Molivadas oversees approximately 1,500 employees in the greater Washington, D.C., region, and he was named the head of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for JLL’s eastern region.

Molivadas was instrumental in JLL’s project management of the construction of the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, and the sale of a 534-unit housing building in Arlington County near Amazon.com’s HQ2. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Methodist University and is a member of Alexandria general contractor Landivar & Associates’ advisory board.

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