Q&A: Trey Carswell, Avison Young

Trey Carswell has worked at Avison Young, a Toronto-based brokerage that bills itself as “the world's fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm,” since September 2013, joining the firm as a principal. Prior to Avison Young, Carswell was a director and founding member of Lane Witherspoon & Carswell Commercial Real Estate Advisors; worked in developer Trammell Crow Co.'s Tampa office; and spent three years with GVA Advantis. Founded in 1996 through a merger of two Canadian firms, Avison Young today has 79 offices and more than 2,400 real estate professionals.

Carswell and partner Lisa Ross are working with Michael T. Fay and John K. Crotty of the company's Miami office in listing a nearly 31-acre tract on Rattlesnake Point, in South Tampa, near a 52-acre site BTI Partners of Fort Lauderdale is developing known as the Westshore Marina District. The property also contains nearly 140,000 square feet of industrial space and features a half-mile of direct water frontage.

How did Avison Young secure the listing on this property?