Commercial Real Estate Profile: John Harshman, President and Founder, Harshman & Co. Inc., Sarasota

John Harshman formed Harshman & Co. in downtown Sarasota in 1989, seven years after beginning his commercial real estate career. Today, the full-service brokerage firm provides leasing, sales and consulting services throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties -- though it continues to focus on downtown Sarasota. A member of the Sarasota-Manatee Association of Realtors' Commercial Investment Division for more than three decades, Harshman in 1998 was named the group's “Commercial Broker of the Year.”