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Tuesday, Feb 21 2012 02:22 PM

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.

Matt Starr, senior vice president of the firm’s office services group, specializes in landlord and tenant representation, as well as buyer and seller representation in investment and owner-user transactions. He has been involved in deals totaling more than $120 million of lease consideration, and office and land sales transactions worth more than $108 million. He joined ASU & Associates in 2003 as an associate after working as a field sales representative for Arrow Electronics Inc. in Santa Clara. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration - finance at Cal State Bakersfield.

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.

Mendez, a senior associate at the firm who speaks Spanish in addition to English, graduated from Delano High School before going on to earn a bachelor’s degree in history at UCLA. His real estate career began in 1993 at The Prudential America West, where he worked as a sales associate. His focus has been within Kern County’s Hispanic business community, helping small businesses buy and lease industrial, office and retail properties. He is a member of the Bakersfield Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Hispanic Business Connection.

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