Darwin Realty promotes Provenza to senior vice president

Darwin Realty/CORFAC International announced Jeffrey Provenza has recently been promoted to senior vice president.

Provenza offers a full range of brokerage services including tenant/owner representation, acquisition/disposition services, build-to-suit projects, and investment sales. He has completed more than 8.5 million square feet in transactions totaling more than $200 million throughout his 10-year career at Darwin Realty/CORFAC International.

In the past several years, Provenza has negotiated many notable transactions. In 2017, he brokered the sale of a 48-acre land site in the O'Hare Submarket to Bridge Development Partners for the development of a 754,103 square foot industrial complex (Bridge Point Franklin Park). Since its completion, he completed more than 405,000 square feet of leasing in the park. In 2019, this project received the "Industrial Speculative Development of the Year" Award from NAIOP's Chicago Chapter.

Provenza joined Darwin Realty in 2010. Prior to his real estate career, he performed regulatory and consulting work in the commodities industry for firms that traded futures and options. After this he pursued a career in internal audit and corporate finance for a Fortune 500 company.

He earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of NAIOP and Young Real Estate Professionals (YREP), and is active in the CORFAC International Network.