JLL Hires Lead for LA Urban High Street Retail

JLL hired 16-year Los Angeles industry veteran and urban street retail expert Matthew Fainchtein as managing director with a start date of May 1. Fainchtein will continue working with tenants and landlords in their leasing and investment needs with a focus on Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Studio City, Hollywood, Malibu and the greater Los Angeles area. He will also lead the firm’s urban high street retail leasing practice throughout Los Angeles.

“We continue to see incredible growth in urban street retail in Los Angeles as the best retailers want to be here and landlords want to position themselves as leaders in this specialty,” said Chris Wilson, JLL national agency retail lead and EVP. “Matthew is the perfect senior partner for us with his experience doing deals on Los Angeles’ best streets. He also gives us the experience to service our national urban clients, partnering with our JLL national urban brokerage colleagues who bring their clients to Los Angeles.”

Fainchtein most recently worked for a boutique retail brokerage firm. Previously he spent nine years at a global commercial real estate firm specializing in urban and high-street retail.

Pictured: Matthew Fainchtein.

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