Charlotte Business Journal: In My Opinion                                                      Back to Home

November 9, 2007  Industry vertarans talk abot what they do and why they do it. . . Our very own Barry Fabyan was asked to share his opinions in the Commercial Real Estate Quarterly.

Office Market Perspective

In the next 12 months, I expect the office market to: see a healthy and steady scenario from the ripple effect of a tight uptown market.

Worst-case scenario: Oil at $90/barrel, credit markets in turmoil, record-high consumer debt, the world's political scene incredibly fragile - wait, we have all of that now.

Best-case scenario: Besides Charlote Center City Partners and the Charlotte Chamber opening an office in our new 10-story Ballantyne building, the city lands a couple of corporate relocations in industries poised for growth in the next 20 years.

 

 Big Picture

Biggest deals: Overcoming Anne Vucano to get hired at Bissell and winning the national championship in golf at Wake Forest University.

Biggest risk: Thinking small

Biggest mistake: I represented a tenant once with a need for immediate occupancy and I took them 45 minutes across town to a building site where no building existed - I did not see the word "proposed."

 

Daily Routine

How you get organized: Besides imagining what David Dorsch would do, who has time to get organized?

Key personal technological tool: Witnessing our Ballantyne Corporate Park grow from its infancy.

Sources of support: Everyone has the capacity to be a teacher in life.

 

Personal

What motivates you: If I kept at it, I'll figure it all out one day.

Hobbies: Living vicariously through my kids' sports activities, yoga, golf.                                        Back to Home