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St. John Properties’ Jenessa Young Elected Chair for Pleasant Grove/Lindon Chamber of Commerce Board
St. John Prop- er ties Senior Designer Jenessa Young has been elected as Chair for the Pleasant
Chamber president. “Pleasant Grove/ Lindon Chamber will benefit from her strong leadership.” Jenessa manages in-house interior design and space planning efforts for St. John Properties in Utah. Her experience includes design work on more than 700,000 square feet of commercial, hospitality and multi- family buildings. Jenessa has served as an active Board Member on the Pleasant Grove/Lindon Chamber of Commerce since 2017.
Jenessa Young
Grove/Lindon Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. As Chair, her duties include oversight of all Chamber activ- ities and acting as liaison. “We are so pleased with Jenessa’s abundant energy and strategic thinking on the Board,” said Eric Jensen,
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Edward St. John
The Inside Scoop: St. John Properties’ Danny Severn The City of Freder- ick’s Department portion of the businesses at Riverside are local vendors. Contractors,
The Business Journals’ Influencers: Commercial Real Estate spotlights 100 executives making moves in the CRE space in cities across the country. The 100 individuals represent both large, nationally known firms and smaller, locally focused businesses. Some of their names, and their companies’ names, might be familiar to you; others you might be seeing for the first time. These executives were identified in conjunction with editors and staff writers across The Business Journals’ network of more than 40 publications, including The Baltimore Business Journal . Each has been featured as part of The Business Journals’ continuing coverage of the newsmakers in those cities. This is the second installment of The Business Journals’ Influencers series to spotlight commercial real estate executives. Most recently, St. John was named The Baltimore Business Journal ’s CEO of the Year. Edward St. John Named to National List of Commercial Real Estate Executives
of Economic Development sat down with St. John Proper- ties’ director of
audio-video, home remodeling, realtors — a lot of tenants that are traditionally community-based groups that want small, efficient, utilitarian spaces. St. John Properties has the ability to offer spaces as small as 2,500 square feet and up to 80,000 square feet, which has really allowed a diverse group of companies to find the right fit. WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE AREA St. John Properties was one of the players from the onset — when the area was really an emerging market. When we entered Riverside, we saw that the potential and that the key components were there. We knew it would just be some time for all the pieces to line up. Now the infrastructure projects have started to tie together, it’s really ignited the fire, so to speak, and the market has gotten hot. The future is very bright for Frederick’s northeast side. At St. John Properties, we are continu- ously searching for new opportunities in the area.
Danny Severn
development for Virginia and Central Maryland, Danny Severn, to get the inside scoop on development in Frederick, Maryland. ON CURRENT BUSINESS TENANTS Due to the flexible nature of our build- ings, Riverside Technology Park has a wide mix of tenants. Our largest tenant right now, Precision for Medicine — at 75,000 square feet — takes advantage of the lab and storage uses our buildings cater so well to. Our single-story spaces are fit out very efficiently for labs. A company looking to have fume hoods doesn’t have to worry about having a tenant above them or how to snake ven- tilation around elevator shafts. We’ve found a nice niche for those life science opportunities — which have become hugely popular in the Frederick corridor. Another major
American City Business Journals Mark Mensheha
City of Frederick Department of Economic Development
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