Jennifer Meade

Vice President of Leasing

 

Jennifer brings 25 years of Commercial Real Estate experience to her role as Vice President of Leasing.  In this role, Jennifer oversees all leasing for the entire DJM portfolio focusing on providing strategic guidance and results for merchandising, maintaining occupancy levels and cash flow and long-term strategy for each asset.

Prior to joining DJM, Jennifer worked as an in-house leasing executive for both The Festival Companies and Primestor Development and has also worked as a broker at CBRE and Beta Agency.

Over the course of Jennifer’s career, she has worked on projects in California, Nevada and Arizona.  Some of the more prominent projects she worked on prior to DJM include Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall in Los Angeles, Paseo Nuevo Mall in Santa Barbara and azalea in South Gate.  As a third party broker, she worked on projects with many prominent landlords in Southern California, including Kimco Realty, Lewis Retail Centers, Newmark Merrill, Metlife, Clarion Partners, Inventrust, and First Washington Realty. Her ability to execute transactions that are accretive to the portfolio and communication with executive management has been valuable to the profitability of the company.

Jennifer graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC and has a master’s degree from California State University Long Beach. She has earned the ICSC designations of Certified Retail Real Estate Professional (CRRP), Certified Real Estate Executive (CRX) and Certified Leasing Specialist (CLS). Jennifer has additionally been recognized as a CoStar Power Broker of the year multiple times in both Los Angeles and Orange County and Globe Street’s Real Estate Forum Magazine has recognized her multiple times as a Woman of Influence for Agency Representation on a national level.