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Craig Sweitzer, Founder & Owner

After working for national brokerage companies for 15 years, Craig founded and opened Urban Works Real Estate in 2002. The idea of leading a good group of people towards a common goal was exciting and timely as Portland embraced the restoration and redevelopment of the city and central neighborhoods. The continued flexibility of creating new brokerage systems and networks based on local knowledge with the added challenge of growing a quality brokerage group has been rewarding. Craig’s team approach to securing brokerage assignments is a difference that most customers recognize immediately in the form of good service. All brokers at Urban Works are company employees working towards the common goal of what is best for our clients. As a native Portlander raised and schooled in southeast and northeast neighborhoods, Craig has always been an advocate for city neighborhoods and the critical role they play in making our city interesting and unique. Craig always enjoys great food, music, close friends and time with his wife Linda and their two children Jack and Maria.

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Linda Elorriaga-Sweitzer, CFO

Before joining Urban Works Real Estate as Chief Financial Officer, Linda owned and operated one of the largest office furniture businesses in Oregon before selling it to Boise Cascade Corporation. Linda’s supervision of operating budgets, growth margins and long term financial planning have helped Urban Works to grow at a faster pace than what was initially conceived. Prior to her commitment to Urban Works, Linda had sales and management positions at US West Communications in Seattle after graduating with honors from the University of Oregon with both a statistics and business management degrees. In addition, she continues to oversee the management of various investment properties for a private family trust. When Linda is not untangling brokerage payroll, she can often be located on a tennis court playing for one of her two tennis teams, walking Louie in the park and organizing the daily activity of Jack & Maria.

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Dan Bozich, Senior Vice President

Dan has been a part of Urban Works since it’s beginning in 2002. Prior to joining the firm, Dan worked with Craig for seven years at both at Trammell Crow and Grubb & Ellis in their retail brokerage groups. Dan excels and specializes in national tenant representation and has substantial experience with national developers in pre-leasing and redevelopment assignments. Dan has a tremendous understanding of both the suburban and urban retail marketplace, and has sold more investment, owner-user properties and land than any broker at Urban Works. Dan is also well entrenched, with local and regional projects that include Ziba Design, SkyLab, Gerding/Edlen and Unico Properties. When Dan isn’t working, which is rarely, he enjoys exploring all that the Northwest has to offer with his wife Lisa and children Will and Ella.

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Kathleen Healy, Senior Associate Broker

Kathleen has been with Urban Works since it’s inception in 2002. Her focus is retail leasing & sales in Portland’s urban and close-in neighborhoods, both Tenant and Landlord/Owner representation. She has worked with Hoyt Street Properties for over six years representing their retail portfolio, successfully leasing more than 45 retail stores in the 10 blocks they have developed in the Pearl District. In addition to her work with larger developers, she is also proud of her work with the smaller, independent developers she represents throughout the Portland area. She has successfully sold mixed-use buildings and commercial properties in North and Southeast Portland. In addition to her Landlord/Owner representation work, Kathleen represents numerous local & regional retailers, with an emphasis on restaurants. In her spare time, Kathleen enjoys time with friends & family, outdoor activities, traveling, cooking, and frequenting Portland’s great local restaurants & bars.

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Ashley Heichelbech, Associate Broker

 Ashley joined the Urban Works team in 2005 and since then has worked on a variety of urban retail transactions, specializing in downtown and South Waterfront neighborhoods. She has helped plan and implement the South Waterfront retail neighborhood strategy and has leased all of the retail storefronts in the high profile district. Ashley is considered an authority in the Central Business District (downtown) and is currently working on three new development towers by Shorenstein, Gerding/Edlen and Opus Development. Prior to joining the Urban Works team, Ashley managed the downtown Portland Marketing Campaign for the City of Portland. Additionally, Ashley led The Portland Business Alliance’s retail programs and co-managed the Downtown Portland Retail Strategy implementation with the Portland Development Commission. Away from the office, Ashley enjoys spending time with her family experiencing the wide variety of activities the Pacific Northwest has to offer.

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Sara Daley, Senior Associate Broker

Sara joined Urban Works in April 2009 with her colleague, Charlotte Larson, with whom she partnered since 2005 at Windermere Commercial. With a focus on lease and sale transactions in Portland’s urban commercial hubs, Sara’s work is anchored by a strong allegiance to Portland’s local entrepreneurs and development community. She has ushered scores of transactions to fruition, and represents a broad range of clients from local property owners, community development corporations and start-ups to national developers and regional firms. Sara is a seasoned negotiator with strong communication skills and fifteen years of experience managing people, projects and contracts. She has held such diverse positions as Product Manager for Adobe Systems, Retail/Restaurant Account Executive for the Portland Mercury Newspaper, social worker and bar/restaurant manager. Before relocating to the Northwest in 1991, Sara grew up in Vermont. In her down time she enjoys time with her husband and daughters, and playing recreational soccer.
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Charlotte Larson , Senior Associate Broker

Charlotte joined Urban Works in April 2009 after successfully launching her brokerage career alongside Sara Daley at Windermere Commercial in 2005. She has negotiated countless real estate transactions and enjoys the challenge of implementing complex urban redevelopment projects while serving the diversity of stakeholders involved in shaping Portland’s commercial centers. Underlying her body of work in commercial leasing and sales is a commitment to supporting the local economy and sustainable growth of the Portland region. She has successfully represented adaptive reuse, transit oriented development, mixed use and historic rehab projects in addition to the business owners who give them life. Charlotte transitioned to brokerage from urban planning after completing Portland State University’s graduate program in real estate development. She is an east coast transplant and moved to Portland from Massachusetts in 1998.  Outside of the office, Charlotte enjoys gardening, the local restaurant scene and exploring the Pacific Northwest.
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Kia Hartley , Associate Broker

Kia Hartley has been with Urban Works since the summer of 2009 and found an instant knack for real estate. She loves to listen and understand a client’s dream then help them to realize it.  It is rare to find someone with both an understanding of the technical aspects of a building and the interpersonal skills to translate them into how it will help a client’s business thrive.  Prior to joining the Urban Works team, Kia had a successful career as an interior architect whose work spanned from the Pearl and the South Waterfront to Los Angeles.  Kia was born and raised in Portland, received her Architecture degree from the University of Oregon, and now resides close to downtown.  Away from the office, Kia loves to travel the world, dine with friends, and spend time outdoors
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Alison Renz, Operations Manager

Alison Renz joined Urban Works in 2008 to assist in Operations and Marketing.  She is responsible for maintaining all of Urban Works marketing materials including our customized listing brochures, UrbanWorksRealEstate.com and numerous postcards, demographic profiles and tenant representation tour packages. In addition to her marketing duties, Alison helps keep the office running smoothly.  She enjoys working closely with the brokers to provide the highest level of service to our clients. Also a native Oregonian, Alison currently lives in the Lair Hill neighborhood of Portland and frequents neighborhood spots like the Ross Island Grocery & Cafe and McMenamin's Fulton Pub.

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