Ryan Burrows of JLL and Kate Jordan of Lee & Associates received their 2016 Developing Leaders Award by NAIOP at the recent Commercial Real Estate Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. The NAIOP Maryland members were among twenty-one professionals to be recognized for this honor across the country. The award is reserved for commercial real estate professionals under 35 years of age who have distinguished themselves and show promise as a future industry leader.

Burrows is Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Industrial Property Services Group of JLL. Among his primary client responsibilities is handling the sales and leasing activities for Tradepoint Atlantic, a 3100-acre industrial site in the Sparrows Point section of Baltimore. Jordan focuses on the leasing and sale of commercial real estate including office, industrial, flex and land in the Baltimore-Washington corridor for Lee & Associates.

The two professionals become the seventh and eighth NAIOP Maryland members to achieve this distinction in the past eight years. Alex Kopicki, Principal of Solstice Partners and Kinglet was selected in 2009; Brendan Gill (current NAIOP Maryland President) of The MacKenzie Companies was recognized in 2011; Taylor Fields of Knott Realty Group received the award in 2012; Christopher Murray, Vice President of Chesapeake Real Estate Group was the recipient in 2013; Jonathan Manekin of JLL was honored in 2015 and Nicole Wilhelm-Smith of ECS Mid-Atlantic received the Developing Award last year.

NAIOP currently has more than 18,000 members nationally among fifty-one chapters, of which more than 4200 are considered Developing Leaders. NAIOP Maryland currently has about 85 Developing Leader members.

"Ryan and Kate's valuable contributions help shape a strong industry and create vibrant communities in which to work, live and play," said Thomas J. Bisacquino,, President and CEO of NAIOP.