Alexander to oversee PDS service delivery and business development throughout Garden State
Andrea Alexander
JLL has promoted Andrea Alexander, senior vice president, to head of Project and Development Services in New Jersey. Her responsibilities include servicing clients, working with the brokerage teams to cross sell business, managing a diverse staff of project managers, new business development, and overseeing all PDS activities in the state. Alexander will report to Terry Harris, managing director and COO of the firm’s suburban tri-state and Northeast Industrial Regions.
“Andrea Alexander has been a crucial member of our project management team for years,” said Harris. “She brings extensive office and retail multi-site expertise and has overseen the management of many of JLL’s most important projects. She is a natural leader who delivers every day for JLL’s clients, project managers and brokerage teams.”
Alexander has more than 20 years of experience in project management, specializing in both retail and office projects. She has overseen the construction of more than 1 million square feet in projects as diverse as a broadcast studio for live video game competitions to a flagship store for T-Mobile International A.G. in Times Square. Alexander has completed multiple automotive programs for clients that include MBUSA, Maserati S.p.A. and Audi of America.
Alexander joined JLL in 2004 as a project manager with its New Jersey PDS group and later served as senior project manager and vice president. She was promoted to senior vice president in June 2017.
Prior to joining JLL, Alexander was the business development manager for Turner Interiors in New York, where she was responsible for sourcing and securing interior renovation projects, many of which were 1 million square feet in size and $100 million in construction volume for Fortune 500 companies and retailers.
Alexander received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering and earned her master’s degree in business administration from Fordham University. She is a licensed real estate salesperson in the state of New Jersey and is certified as a LEED Green Associate.
She is a gala committee member for Special Olympics New York and is a committee member for the United Way of Northern New Jersey’s Annual Commercial Real Estate Luncheon. Alexander also serves as philanthropy chair for the JLL Women's Business Network. Alexander organizes charitable contributions for the JLL community at large. She is a mentor to junior members of the PDS group as part of the JLL PDS Mentorship Program.
JLL is a leader in the northern/central New Jersey commercial real estate market, with more than 1,000 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 services to New Jersey's leading corporate tenants, investors and landlords. The firm, which assists clients from three full-service offices in Parsippany, Iselin (Metropark) 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. JLL’s New Jersey operations were honored by NJBiz magazine as one of its 2015 Best Places to Work in New Jersey.
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