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High Touch Properties Inc.

hightouchgrp.com

Los Angeles, California

High Touch Properties Inc. dba High Touch Group, is a privately held statewide real estate brokerage company focused on the Restaurant and Retail Industry founded by and under the leadership of Linnard Lane. High Touch specializes in providing, Tenant Representation Real Estate Brokerage, Business Brokerage, and Restaurant Advisory services to established and emerging "high touch/customer experience" retail and restaurant merchants.

High Touch Group, assists upstart and established brands to scale and manage rapid and profitable market expansion serving as their exclusive outsourced real estate and project manager with responsibility for developing portfolio strategies and retail market advisory services. The principals of High Touch deliver unmatched value to its clients by leveraging its corporate real estate and restaurant experience and delivering those resources to emerging brands saving them time, money, and mistakes. We bring a lot more to the table for our clients than your average real estate or business brokerage firm too, we{ve also been on the restaurant operations side as well so we see the complete picture for our clients.

High Touch{s brokerage arm takes great pride in its track record of finding hidden site opportunities and driving value to the bottom line for its clients and merchant partners. Building relationships with our clients, partners, team members, agents, and city agencies have been the foundation of our success.

Linnard{s clients include private, corporate, family office, and franchise concepts some of which include Starbucks, Applebee’s, TGI Fridays, Chipotle, FedEx, AT&T, Noah{s Bagels, Payless Shoes, Petco, Michael{s Stores, Stout Burger & Boomtown Brewery, Inflection Capital, Relentless Brewing, Plan Check Kitchen + Bar, Sancho’s Tacos, Nardo Italia as well as a number of restaurant venture capital, quasi-institutional, and entertainment clients.
Services Offered
Empire delivers a full suite of specialized brokerage and development services to restaurant operators which include:
- Site Selection
- Lease & Purchase Negotiations
- Business Acquisitions and Dispositions
- Store Development Strategy
- Market Planning & Analysis
- Turnkey Store Development including Preconstruction, Design, Entitlement, and Construction Management.
About

Linnard Lane has over 30 years of extensive transactional and business experience in restaurant, retail, and mixed use property development, site selection & acquisitions, market strategy & financial analysis, project feasibility, leasing, permits & entitlements, and construction management producing:
- 56 new retail and restaurant, single tenant, and mixed-use developments across California through the entire ground up and redevelopment cycle;
- Negotiated, sourced, and closed in excess of 100 purchase and ground lease contracts worth over $400MM and sold over 43 single and multi-tenant retail properties;
- Negotiated over 220 leases with or on behalf of national and regional retailers and restaurants for retail, mixed use, urban and suburban developments covering 543,000 sq. ft.;
- Developed over 139 new stores for retailers and restaurants and directing seven development teams simultaneously (real estate, leasing, legal, design, finance, construction, broker network); supervised 12 division staff and $1M - $20M project budgets.

Expertise

Experienced in but not limited to the following services and sectors. Contact for a full list.

  • Building & Construction
  • Restaurants & Food
  • Retail
Areas Served
  • Los Angeles County, CA
  • Orange County, CA
  • San Diego County, CA
  • San Francisco County, CA
Languages

English

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Licensed In
California
00805179
Affiliations
  • Professional Affiliations: - International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC); - has been an expert witness in the commercial real estate field for arbitration and mediation proceedings; - guest lecturer University of Southern California, Lusk Graduate School for Real Estate Studies; - guest lecturer University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Restaurant Operations/Management, Real Estate & Site Selection - California real estate broker BRE #00805179. Education: - Linnard received his B.S. degree in Psychology, Real Estate, and Business from Arizona State University in 1980; - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Advanced Real Estate Finance (1982); - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Restaurant Operations/Management (2010)
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