Liberty Center Jacksonville, FL 32216

Janet Keister is Senior Vice President of Leasing and a Licensed Florida Real Estate Broker with over 35 years of industry experience and an extensive background in real estate sales, leasing, and property management. Since 2009 she has represented Hakimian Holdings' growing number of properties, leading site visits, negotiating lease terms, and acting as liaison between the Hakimian team and current and prospective tenant. Janet is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and Chamber of Commerce. She enjoys reading, gardening, DIY projects, and volunteering for Dress a Girl Around the World, a Hope 4 Women International program. She has two grown sons and five grandchildren.

Hakimian Holdings is a private, family-owned commercial real estate owner-operator headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. With over 2.5 million square feet in Jacksonville and the surrounding markets spanning from Daytona Beach, Florida to Kingsland, Georgia, Hakimian operates with the belief that local management provides superior service to their tenant-clients.

Blake Hakimian serves as Senior Vice President of Commercial Real Estate Leasing at Hakimian Holdings. His primary role is handling new leases, renewals, and assignments for tenants in the commercial real estate portfolio. He’s been consistently ranked as a “CoStar Power Broker: Top Producer in Commercial Real Estate Lease Transactions” since 2020; his first full calendar year of production. (CoStar is the leading commercial real estate market intelligence firm and it's an S&P 500 company).

Clients he’s worked with include, but are not limited to, Walgreens, Pet Supermarket, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Planet Fitness, Mattress Firm, Plato’s Closet, My Salon Suite, GameStop, Firehouse Subs, Jimmy Johns, Wingstop, Golden Corral, Southeast Orthopedics, Avecina Urgent Care, H2 Health, J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, SouthState Bank, Aegis Consulting, Girl Scouts of America, and the U.S. Armed Forces.

Prior to Hakimian Holdings, he served as a credit analyst at CenterState Bank (now SouthState Bank) analyzing the credit worthiness of commercial real estate acquisition, development, and refinance loans as well as a wide variety of for-profit corporate, not-for-profit, non-profit, and municipality loans. Before that, he served as an economic research analyst at CBRE authoring both commercial real estate market-level reports and individual asset reports.

He’s a double-graduate of University of Florida obtaining both a Master of Science in Real Estate concentrated in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science concentrated in Public Policy. Hakimian pursued both degrees simultaneously and in his final year he was inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame for outstanding academic achievement and community leadership.

Born, raised, and now building a life in Jacksonville, FL; when he’s not working, you can find him at either the gym, a bookstore, or wherever his family is and all three with a coffee in hand.

To Lease Today:
904-415-0419
blake@hakimian.us
www.hakimianholdings.com