Allen Wiant
Broker, AK Wiant, LLC
Pepper Pike, OH 44124
Phone (216) 702-4722
Markets
Cleveland
Bio
Anyone who has attended a cultural event at the Allen Theater in Cleveland has appreciated the work of Allen Wiant. Allen’s reputation for creativity, consensus building and strategic thinking led the Playhouse Square Foundation to tap him when they needed help with the eleventh-hour rescue of this historic Cleveland landmark.
Allen has 22 years of experience in the commercial real estate brokerage business. In 1989, he and Robert Brandon collaborated with partner Richard H. Adler to market the office properties for the Jacobs Group. The threesome, then known as Richard H. Adler Associates, met several daunting challenges that included filling the high-profile, 1.5-million sq. ft., 57-story Society Center and repositioning 800 Superior Avenue and The Tower at Erieview. In 1992, the Jacobs group took the leasing of its properties back in house and Richard H. Adler chose to retire. By then, Allen and Bob had built a solid reputation as a formidable duo, widely recognized for their ability to structure complex deals with creativity and financial finesse. They formed a new partnership under the name Brandon/Wiant Co., today known as Brandon Wiant Converse, Ltd.
NOTEWORTHY PROJECTS
Alcan Aluminum, 85,000 sq. ft.– headquarters
Dix & Eaton, 25,000 sq. ft.– headquarters
AGA Gas, 70,000 sq. ft.– headquarters, Independence; 45,000 sq. ft. tech center lease
*Middough Associates, 200,000 sq. ft.– headquarters, Cleveland; offices in Toledo and Chicago
*Penton Media, 200,000 sq. ft.– headquarters
*Playhouse Square Foundation, preservation of Allen Theatre; 20,000 sq.– ft.- office lease
Cleveland Foundation 48,000 sq. ft. lease restructuring and expansion
Booz.Allen Hamilton¸ 33,000 sq. ft.– office lease, Key Tower
Christian & Timbers, 50,000 sq. ft.– headquarters renewal & expansion
Baker & Hostetler, 166,000 sq. ft.– lease renewal and expansion
*Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, Transaction Manager/Strategic Planning for 5,000,000 sq. ft.
portfolio; 250,000 sq. ft. lease transaction
*Winner of the NAIOP Deal of the Year Award
AWARDS
Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty under Forty, 1993
NAIOP Office Broker of the Year, 1991 & 1997
ABOVE & BEYOND
National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), Trustee, Long-Range Planning Committee
Cleveland Area Board of Realtors, Initiated focus group to establish guidelines for ethics for brokers
n American Cancer Society, Co-founder of Annual Golf Outing to benefit Camp Friendship
n University School Alumni Association
