California People and Company News, Week of May 15, 2026

• Marcus & Millichap announced that Michael Puline has joined the firm as senior managing director and national director of its retail division. Puline will guide the strategic growth of Marcus & Millichap’s and Institutional Property Advisors’ (IPA) retail divisions and lead the company’s retail advisory teams, helping to ensure seamless execution and client service delivery. Before joining Marcus & Millichap, he held a senior leadership role with a Blackstone portfolio company, where he led national retailer strategy and research for a $9-billion, 19-million-square-foot retail portfolio. 

• Gantry, reportedly the largest independent commercial mortgage banking firm in the U.S., has promoted Alicia Sabanero to her new role as director with the Los Angeles loan production team. In her new role, Sabanero will focus directly on developing, navigating and closing client assignments while remaining engaged in collaborative financings with other producers as part of Gantry’s national production team. She will continue to be based in Gantry’s Los Angeles production office. 

• Clark Neuhoff was recently hired by Transwestern Development as Regional Partner, West Coast Industrial Team in Newport Beach, CA. Transwestern develops office, industrial, multifamily, mixed-use and healthcare projects throughout the US. He will be responsible for sourcing and executing institutional industrial development projects across the West Coast and accountable for the full lifecycle of development projects.  Clark was previously CIO at Alere Property Group. Executive search firm RETS Associates handled the search. 

• Continental Development Corporation (CDC) announced that real estate veteran Robert “Bobby” Peddicord has joined the company as EVP, overseeing CDC’s property management and leasing teams. Headquartered in El Segundo, CDC is one of the largest real estate developers in the South Bay with over 2 million square feet of office space along the Rosecrans Corridor and 500,000 square feet of medical office space in Torrance. 

• Samuel K. “Sam” Freshman, a pioneering real estate attorney, investor, author, educator and founder of Standard Management Company, is remembered as one of the most influential figures in modern real estate syndication and a trusted advisor to generations of investors, families, real estate professionals and entrepreneurs. Often referred to as the “Father of Real Estate Syndication,” Freshman helped define the structure, discipline, and language of real estate syndication long before the strategy became widely understood across the investment community. His landmark book, Principles of Real Estate Syndication, has been described by some as a “bible on the subject,” reflecting its role as a practical guide for investors, attorneys, sponsors, and real estate operators seeking to understand how groups of investors could own larger, more meaningful assets together. 

• Tutor Perini Corporation, a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, announced that its subsidiary, Rudolph and Sletten, has been awarded a contract by Sutter Health for its future Advanced Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Care Complex in Sacramento. The project scope of work includes the conversion of the existing 660 J Street office building into a new approximately 120,000-square-foot ambulatory surgical center and medical office building. 

• ATTOM, a leading provider of property data, AI-powered analytics and real estate intelligence solutions, announced ATTOM Intelligence, a framework that defines how property data and analytics are structured, delivered and applied in an AI-driven world. ATTOM Intelligence builds on years of investment in data engineering, analytics, and infrastructure, the company said. 

• Crexi, a leading commercial real estate data platform and marketplace, has unveiled Crexi AI, a suite of embedded AI capabilities built on the Crexi network operating system, each designed to support a specific stage of deal preparation. Crexi also announced the public launch of Crexi Create, a platform for AI offering memorandum & document creation, available May 18, 2026. 

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