Does anyone work in or with Corporate Real Estate (Chipotle, Starbucks, etc.)
looking to break into the corporate side. do you know anything about it?

good job? interesting? opportunity to make an OK salary?

thanks!
[{"id": "cmx9jw1", "text": "Depends on the position.  I had a 5 year spree in corporate now I do commercial real estate for a broker.  \n\nAre we talking property management, sales, site acquisition, lease renegotiations?  \n\nSome major companies also use outside brokers to perform some of their work, it depends on the company, the field and whom you are looking for.  Feel free to PM me with any questions.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cmxahg4", "text": "The broker I work for has worked with a few national brands, but he is mainly mom and pop..emphasis on site selection..I'm fairly young and new to the field so I'd like to know also.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cmxxb2i", "text": "Most of the people I've dealt with on the Corporate Real Estate side of thing had extensive experience on the commercial brokerage side beforehand and networked (did a good job for them) then landed a job opportunity. \n", "replies": [{"id": "cmxxghh", "text": "Interesting. I've spoken with quite a few people who came in completely green.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "cmy034m", "text": "Retail brokerage isn't my thing exactly but I've done more than a bit of it involving nationals and a few coworkers have jump shipped to corporate jobs doing this.  Just from what I've seen, not saying it is all like this, what you said seems right.  \n\nBusinesses tend to go through multiple phases:  \n\n1.  Deal with local brokers (or many) to secure sites with the ceo/other high level officer handling acquisitions.  \n\n2.  That person is too busy to deal with this or the geography spreads out too much.  A national broker is selected who deals with local brokers and the exec types get a more condensed version of proposals.\n\n3.  Start having a lot of sites and someone dealing with renewals etc becomes almost a full time job.  So you hire someone for this (that someone usually isn't entry level.  It is someone who is expected to just handle this, not be trained etc).  \n\n4.  That someone in 3 gets overworked and needs assistants/jr level folks.  \n\nThe firms you mention are probably in step 9 of what I mentioned and have large real estate departments.  \n\nFor what its worth, I've never worked with them, but I've always heard McDonalds real estate is basically the most well analyzed department imaginable.  They can take any location and back into sales figures etc based on mountains of data.  I have to imagine they have a ton of people working there too.  If you want to break into retail corporate acquisitions that would seem a good place to look at.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]