NAI Charter Places KoneCranes in Century Oaks Commons

Jeff Jennings, CCIM of NAI Charter announces a long term lease executed between KoneCranes as Tenant and Haisten Family Partners as Landlord. KoneCranes will occupy 5,000 square feet at Century Oaks Commons located at 4638 Resource Drive.

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity - enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2012, Group sales totaled EUR 2,170.2 million. The Group has 12,100 employees at 626 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

About NAI Charter

Founded in 1972, NAI Charter is Chattanooga’s premier commercial and industrial real estate service provider with a staff of 7 full time brokers with 4 holding the SIOR designation, 5 holding the CCIM designation and 1 holding the MAI designation. NAI Charter also offers a full-service property management division, Charter Management Company.

Charter Management Company currently manages 15 commercial properties totaling over 800,000 SF. The Charter Management team specializes in streamlining property operations through contractor/vendor discounts, fixed cost reduction and tenant satisfaction and retention.

About NAI Global

NAI Charter is a member of NAI Global which is the single largest, most powerful global network of owner-operated commercial real estate brokerage firms. NAI Global provides a full-range of corporate real estate services, including brokerage and leasing, property and facilities management, real estate investment and capital market services, due diligence, global supply chain consulting and related advisory services. Founded in 1978, today NAI Global member firms span the US and 54 other countries, with 400 offices and more than 5,000 local market experts on the ground, completing $55 billion of transactions annually.

NAI Global was acquired in 2012 by C-III Capital Partners, a commercial real estate services company engaged in a broad range of activities, including primary and special loan servicing, loan origination, fund management, CDO management, principal investment, title services and multifamily property management.