Colliers PKF Consulting USA Expands Southeast Presence

ATLANTA, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Colliers PKF Consulting USA (PKFC), the leading hotel and hospitality consulting and research firm in the United States, has merged their practice with Jacksonville, Florida-based Atlantic Hospitality Advisors (AHA).  The three partners of AHA, Hank Staley, Jill Bidwell and Tony Jenkins, along with industry veterans Chuck Ross and Rachel Falkner, all joined the firm effective August 1, 2010.  PKFC now operates in a total of 20 cities across the nation, including five offices in the Southeast - Atlanta, Georgia, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as Asheville, North Carolina.  

Founded in 1995, AHA specializes in market analysis, appraisal and dispute resolution services for a broad spectrum of lodging industry participants, including lenders, owners, developers and hotel chains.  Staley, Bidwell and Jenkins are also designated Members of the Appraisal Institute and increase the bench strength of the firm's valuation teams already resident in Atlanta, Bozeman, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  "The coming together of PKFC and AHA is also a reunion," said Mark Woodworth, executive vice president for PKFC in Atlanta.  "Many of us had the good fortune of working with Hank, Jill and Chuck for many years back in the 1980's," Woodworth noted.  "Their commitment to excellence and sizeable portfolio of dedicated clients furthers PKFC's reach in the Southeast.  We are fortunate to have such a talented, well-respected group join our firm."

Hank Staley, the senior member of AHA and now a senior vice president of PKFC based in Jacksonville, cited the benefits that will come with the extensive nationwide resources of PKFC and their sister company, Colliers PKF Hospitality Research.  "PKFC, like our firm, has a long-standing commitment to the value of a rigorous approach to research.  I look forward to leveraging the experience and expertise of our firm and to collaborating with the PKFC experts across the nation in the months ahead."

ABOUT COLLIERS PKF CONSULTING USA

Colliers PKF Consulting USA (www.pkfc.com) is an advisory and real estate firm specializing in the hospitality industry.  Colliers PKF Consulting USA is owned by FirstService Corporation and is a subsidiary of Colliers International.  The firm operates three companies: Colliers PKF Consulting USA, Colliers PKF Hospitality Research and Colliers International Hotels.  The firm has offices in New York, Boston, Indianapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Asheville, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Bozeman, Miami, Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, and San Francisco.

Colliers PKF Consulting USA offers hotel appraisal and hotel valuation, hotel market studies, hospitality litigation support, and hotel advisory services. Colliers International Hotels offers hotel brokerage and hotel transaction services. Colliers PKF Hospitality Research produces Hotel Horizons^®, an econometrically based hotel forecast, Benchmarker(SM), a customized comparative hotel benchmark report, and Annual Trends^®, a historical hotel financial publication, as well as hotel research  services.

ABOUT COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL

Colliers International is a global leader in real estate services with more than 15,000 professionals operating out of 480 offices in 61 countries.  As a subsidiary of FirstService Corporation (Nasdaq: FSRV; TSX: FSV and FSV.PR.U), Colliers offers the stability of a strong financial partner and significant local ownership providing clients with accountability and enterprising real estate solutions.  Colliers provides a full range of services to real estate users, owners and investors worldwide including: global corporate solutions; sales and lease brokerage; property and asset management; project management; mortgage banking and insightful research.

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