550 Allerton St 14,886 SF of 4-Star Office Space Available in Redwood City, CA 94063

Mike Courson joined Newmark Knight Frank in 2012 as an executive managing director specializing in the representation of landlords, tenants and investors throughout the Greater Silicon Valley. In February 2018, Mr. Courson was promoted to vice chairman. Prior to joining the Palo Alto office, Mr. Courson spent 10 years at Cushman & Wakefield (formerly Cassidy Turley), where he achieved partner status within his first four years in the business. Throughout his commercial real estate career, his transactions have exceeded $3 billion in value, and since 2003, he has closed more than 12.2 million square feet in lease and sale transactions.

Mr. Courson has participated in numerous sales and leasing transactions that were later nominated by local business journals as deals of the year. Three standouts are Stanford's acquisition of the Mid-Point Technology Campus located in Redwood City, totaling 898,278 square feet; ING Clarion's acquisition of 133,036 square feet along Sand Hill Road; and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI's) build-to-suit, 100,000-rentable-square-foot headquarters located in downtown Redwood City. Throughout Mr. Courson's career, Mr. Courson has paid special attention to downtown amenity and transit orientated markets, particularly Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. In 2017, Mr Courson led four major Class A ground-up lease transactions in downtown Redwood City totaling more than 315,000 rentable square feet. Associated tenants included CZI, Go Fund Me, McKinsey & Company, Bessemer Ventures, Gunderson Dettmer, SendGrid and Highfive.

An Executive Managing Director and Market Leader for Newmark’s Palo Alto office, Christian Prelle advises his clients on the development and execution of office/R&D lease and investment transactions throughout the Bay Area. His clients appreciate his market knowledge, loyalty, and thoroughness in the representation process. Prelle has experience working with institutional landlords and real estate investment trusts on the management and leasing of key assets. On the tenant representation side, he has worked extensively with early-stage technology and professional service companies on structuring appropriate facility strategies, as well as later-stage companies, which he assists with more complex real estate needs.

Prelle has also taken over the leadership and managerial role, overseeing over 55 brokers and staff. He was named Rookie of the Year by the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers (ASVB) in his first year at Newmark and is now a company Top Producer having since completed over 320 lease and sale transactions totaling more than $1.4 billion in total consideration.