JLL New Jersey welcomes industry rising star Kelsey Nakamura

PARSIPPANY, N.J., May 18, 2021 — JLL announced today that it has hired nine-year industry professional Kelsey Nakamura as a Senior Vice President with the firm’s New Jersey Office Brokerage team. She will work in collaboration with the NJ office brokerage team, led by Tim Greiner, Executive Managing Director, of the New Jersey office.

Nakamura, a former Director at Cushman & Wakefield, will focus on all aspects of office brokerage, including tenant representation, agency leasing and portfolio clients. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Nakamura served as Director of Leasing and Asset Management at Saxum Real Estate, a privately held real estate investment and development company. During her career, she has negotiated over 3.5 million square feet of transactions, with an aggregate deal value of over $750 million. Her deep understanding of tenant objectives and fresh perspective has helped companies transform their real estate to better attract the next generation of talent, and her insight into the landlord’s perspective enables her to provide a superior negotiating position in transactions.

“Kelsey’s extraordinary experience across a broad range of office brokerage services positions her to leverage JLL’s extensive platform for the benefit of her clients and help her achieve her career ambitions,” said Greiner. “We are pleased to welcome her to the team.”

“I’m excited to part of such a great group of professionals,” said Nakamura, “I was drawn to JLL’s culture, collaborative environment and meaningful investments in both their people and platform. I look forward to fully utilizing JLL’s technologies and platform to help my clients as they rethink their portfolios and workplace strategy in a changing world.”

Nakamura graduated from Lehigh University and has been received multiple industry awards and recognitions throughout her career, including Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal’s “30 Under 30”, Real Estate Forum’s “Tomorrow’s Leaders”, NAIOP NJ’s “Rising Star” award, and multiple CoStar Power Broker awards. She serves on the Emerging Leader Board of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey and is actively involved in NAIOP New Jersey and Community Hope.

JLL is a leader in the northern/central New Jersey commercial real estate market, with more than 1,260 professionals and support staff providing agency leasing and property marketing, tenant representation, industrial services, strategic consulting, occupancy planning, workplace strategies, project and development services, property and facility management, and investment sales/capital markets debt and equity services to New Jersey's leading corporate tenants, investors and landlords. The firm, which assists clients from five full-service offices in Parsippany, Iselin (Metropark), Princeton, Morristown and East Rutherford, also acts as a local service provider for JLL’s global and national corporate clients in need of real estate assistance in New Jersey. NJBiz ranked JLL’s New Jersey operations as the No. 1 commercial real estate brokerage in the Garden State in 2020.