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EXPERIENCE
As the only female commercial real estate business owner in Santa Barbara, Clarice has earned a superior reputation in retail and office leasing, as well as developing a significant sales practice for her investment clients. She has worked on many of the largest retail deals in the area, handling all the challenges and developing the leasing solutions for major national retail chains. In recent years, her focus has been evolving with her unique ability to scour the market to uncover creative investment opportunities for her clients, as well as in equity placement for large-scale investors.
Clarice became a partner of the Leider Group in 2001 after joining the firm in 1996. Prior to that, she gained valuable experience in a wide variety of commercial transactions by managing a portfolio of approximately 500,000 sq. ft. for The Towbes Group, the premier developer in Santa Barbara. She focused on management, leasing, and negotiations of industrial, office and retail real estate properties located throughout the Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
In addition to her experience at The Towbes Group, Clarice also honed her entrepreneurial drive as an owner and partner at Vista Del Mar Property Management while still in college and worked as a leasing agent for Realty Advisors in the Santa Barbara area. Clarice has taken advantage of her strong knowledge of the overall market and her financial background to deliver unique proprietary analysis and to discover creative commercial real estate solutions that meet and exceed the expectations of her clients.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2004 - Present: Leider Hayes Commercial, Partner, Founder
2001 - 2004: Leider Group, Partner
1996 - 2001: Leider Commercial, Agent
1989 - 1996: The Towbes Group, Real Estate Portfolio Management
1987 - 1989: Realty Advisors, Property Manager & Leasing Agent
1985 - 1987: Vista Del Mar Property Management, Partner
CLIENTS & CASE STUDIES
Clarice plays a major role in the all of the firm's large-scale transactions, working with a wide array of national firms and helping to put together some of the largest deals in the Tri-Counties. A few of her notable deals are as follows:
Orchid Bowl Center: Hired by Kinko's founder, Paul Orfalea, to approach the owners of the neighborhood shopping center anchored by Orchid Bowl bowling alley (now Zodo's Bowling) for a potential purchase.
Elliott Homes: Hired to secure a qualified buyer for the Goleta neighborhood shopping center, anchored by Albertson's and Longs Drugs.
Rodeo Enterprises: Involved in the identification and purchase of a high-quality investment property in Santa Barbara for an investor's exchange.
Longs Drugs: Represented the landlords in separate transactions involving leases to Longs Drugs in Carpinteria and Santa Barbara.
Laguna Industrial: Laguna Industrial Partners hired Cornell and Leider to lease s 37,000 sf light Industrial, multi-tenant building space that had been occupied by the same tenant for 50 years.
Seaward Center: Represented the buyer and seller in the marketing and sale of a three-story, 60,000 sf office building in Ventura.
Calle Real Center: Repositioned the 114,000 sf neighborhood shopping center in Goleta after a major remodel.
Saks Fifth Ave.: Negotiated long-term lease with Saks Fifth Avenue in prominent downtown Santa Barbara building.
Buellton Town Center: Development and investment sale that included assemblage of vacant land, entitlements, development approvals, and land sales to Albertson's and Longs Drugs.
Cypress Plaza: Represented Halferty Development in the land acquisition, assemblage, and leasing of this 130,000 sf Morro Bay deal involving Albertson's and Rite-Aid.
Camino Real Marketplace: Represented Wynmark in this 500,000 sf regional power center in Goleta, leasing to tenants such as Home Depot, Costco, Staples, Linens N' Things, and McDonalds.
Albertson's: Helped the national grocery chain secure multiple locations including: Paso Robles, Atascadero, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, Orcutt, and Buellton.
Woodland Plaza: Represented the major southland development firm, Halferty Development, in the four-phase Woodland Plaza shopping center development deal in Paso Robles that included entitlements, tenant representation, and project leasing.
Santa Barbara Business Park: Represented both buyer and seller (Rossi Enterprises and Towbes) in the $25 million investment sale of the 192,000 sf deal involving five parceled R&D buildings.
Granada Building: Assisted Rossi Enterprises in the purchase of the 68,000 sf historical building in downtown Santa Barbara in 2001; also parceled and sold 32,000 sf of the building to Santa Barbara Center of Performing Arts.
EDUCATION
Clarice's educational roots are in the Santa Barbara community, at the University of California at Santa Barbara with studies in Business Economics and Computer Science. Further studies included financial and securities analysis at Santa Barbara City College.
AFFILIATIONS
Received award as one of the "40 under 40" leading business persons by the Pacific Coast Business Times in 2001
Sponsor of the Lobero Theatre
Volunteer and event sponsor for the Family Service Agency
Member of the International Council of Shopping Centers |
