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Gretchen Smith
Cushman & Wakefield| Commercial Property of SWFL
Gretchen Smith joined the Fort Myers office of Cushman & Wakefield| Commercial Property of SWFL. She was named lead listing coordinator-research assistant for the firm's commercial real estate division. She has nine years of commercial real estate experience.

Kevin Hipes
CBRE
Kevin Hipes joined CBRE's retail brokerage group in Tampa. Prior to joining CBRE, Hipes was a senior vice president of Tailwinds Development in Orlando. Earlier in his career, he was director of leasing for The Shopping Center Group, where he handled more than 40 leases totaling 500,000 square feet of retail space. Before that, he was director of leasing for Kimco Realty, where he oversaw the leasing and redevelopment of its 13 million-square-foot Florida portfolio.