Small Firm, Big Differences

Plaza Advisors has succeeded in selling Gulf Coast retail centers through experience — and a willingness to limit screen time

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. April 23, 2021
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COURTESY PHOTO — Plaza Advisors sold the 45,898-square-foot Shoppes at the Royale in St. Petersburg in July 2019.
COURTESY PHOTO — Plaza Advisors sold the 45,898-square-foot Shoppes at the Royale in St. Petersburg in July 2019.
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Plaza Advisors’ President and Founder Jim Michalak sees some pretty stark differences between his boutique commercial real estate brokerage firm and the competition, and his own modus operandi and others.

Take Google Earth, for instance. 

 

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