JBL Companies Newsletter

March 21, 2019

• Creating Strategies • Delivering Solutions • Increasing Value

1st Quarter – 2019

JBL Brokerage Services

Bringing Large Market Services to Mid-Market Users, Owners and Investors

With over 28 years of experience, JBL Companies’ Brokerage Services has
completed more than $900 million in sales and leasing transactions and has provided over 1 million square feet of project management and development services.  JBL has the local market knowledge and deep industry network to deliver solutions to their clients.  JBL is well equipped to handle everything from basic sales and leasing or tenant representation transactions to complex multi-faceted transactions involving several parties.

JBL’s team has the depth to meet a variety of needs in commercial real estate sales transactions.  Whether it’s buying or selling, we develop the target, do the comparison analysis and facilitate the closing.  For leasing we list the space and market to a wide range of users to accomplish a successful lease plan.  Our tenant representation services works through needs analysis and performs a search to find the best fit for the client’s business needs.

JBL Companies takes a personal approach to create and implement strategies that result in beneficial solutions for tenants, buyers, owners and investors.

The Open Door Pantry

Combatting Local Hunger through Access to Healthy Food

The Open Door, a hunger relief organization, was recently awarded the designation of 2019 Food for All Partner by IN Food Marketing & Design. The Open Door was chosen due to its innovative approach to combatting hunger and will receive half the proceeds from the agency’s 5% give back campaign and $10,000 worth of pro-bono marketing services. The pro-bono services will raise awareness and help expand the organization’s impact in the community.

The Open Door is a tenant in the Cedar Grove Business Center in Eagan (managed by JBL Companies) where it has leased space since 2013. The 4,952 square feet of space enable The Open Door to provide fresh, nutritious food and a variety of resources to the community that include family advocacy and referrals that link families to stabilizing services.

The award winning food shelf also:

• Serves more than 6,000 clients each month
• Distributes 1 million pounds of food annually
• Offers a variety of food, 70% of which is fresh and perishable
• Visits 20+ sites a month as the only mobile food pantry in Dakota County
• Provides 200 Garden to Table plots 
• Manages 5 pop-up produce stands that deliver farm fresh produce
• Feeds 2,000 children each summer through its Mobile Lunch Box

To volunteer, donate, or for more information, visit theopendoorpantry.org