The Barry Company Wins Deal of the Year Awards

Company receives win in industrial category and runner-up in development category

The Barry Company, a leading southeast Wisconsin commercial real estate company headquartered in downtown Milwaukee won the “Industrial Deal of the Year” award and was runner-up for the “Development Deal of the Year” award, which were presented at the 2018 Commercial Association of Realtors of Wisconsin (CARW) Deal of the Year Awards and Annual Meeting last night at the Grain Exchange, Milwaukee. The event honored 2018’s most notable professionals and transactions in Southeast Wisconsin commercial real estate.

David Buckley, Kevin Barry, CCIM, Kurt Van Dyke, CCIM, SIOR and Jim Barry III, CCIM won the Industrial Deal of the Year award for their involvement in Blast Cleaning Technologies’ lease of 127,000 square feet in the former Allis Chalmers facility at 6682 W. Greenfield Avenue, West Allis, Wis. The transaction was one of the largest industrial lease deals in Wisconsin in 2018 and included economic incentives and loan programs, as well as a tenant investment of over $2M to upgrade the older industrial space to modern standards.

David Barry, CCIM, SIOR and Kevin Barry, CCIM were runner-up for the Development Deal of the Year award for selling the 3.1 acre former Saint Francis Borgia school and rectory site in Cedarburg, Wis. to HSI Arrabelle, LLC. The site will be developed into a $16M residential campus featuring 3-story apartment buildings and 2-story townhomes.
Since the inception of the Deal of the Year award by CARW, The Barry Company has won 17 times, and has been honored as runner-up on multiple occasions.

About The Barry Company

The Barry Company, a 97-year-old independently owned and operated commercial real estate company, provides award-winning services throughout southeast Wisconsin and beyond. The Barry Company has won six awards from the Commercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin in the past five years, and 17 awards since the inception of the event. The company has also received three consecutive Best Deal/Lease of the Year awards from The Business Journal.