Matt Starr and Marty Starr
By The Bakersfield Californian
Matt Starr and Marty Starr have been named partners at Grubb & Ellis/ASU & Associates, and BARRY HIBBARD and HENRY MENDEZ JR. have joined the commercial real estate firm as sales staff.
Marty Starr focuses on office services, having brokered and consulted in landlord and tenant leasing representation, owner-user and investment sales, pre-leasing development services, build-to-suit properties and ground-up development. He started at ASU & Associates in 1998 after four years as a sales associate at Watson Realty Co. He studied business administration, concentrating on finance, at Cal State Bakersfield.
Hibbard, in the firm’s industrial services group, spent 12 years at Tejon Ranch Co., where he was named vice president of commercial and industrial development. There he leased or developed more than 300 acres with 3.2 million square feet of industrial property and 90,000 square feet of freeway commercial and retail properties. Before that he worked as a Realtor at Karpe Real Estate Group. Between 2010 and 2011, Hibbard ran his own company, Central Valley Investments, focusing on bringing together supply chain trends and industrial development. He was appointed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Economic Strategy Panel and the San Joaquin Valley Partnership. He earned a master’s degree in business administration at Cal State Bakersfield, and a bachelor’s degree in finance at Michigan State University.
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