About

Rico Pietro, Principal with Cushman & Wakefield | CRESCO Real Estate is a 20 year veteran in the commercial real estate sector.

He joined Cushman & Wakefield | CRESCO Real Estate in 2004 as a founding member of the Office Services Group. Rico provides corporate real estate advisory solutions to his clients locally and on an international basis. Rico currently sits on the Cushman & Wakefield Tenant Advisory Council, Legal Specialty Group and Chair of the Investment Division.

Rico is known as the most active broker in the Cleveland Region and is routinely the firms top producer in dollar volume and number of transactions. Rico specializes in acquisition strategy, creative brokerage, advisory services and marketing trends in the office, investment, and mixed use arena.

Clients

• ADCOM
• Allstate Insurance
• Bryant & Stratton College
• CF Bank
• Cleveland.com
• Cleveland Urology
• The Cleveland Clinic
• Cuyahoga County Land Bank
• Dealer Tire World Headquarters
• Dollar Bank
• First National Bank of PA
• Fresenius Dialysis Centers
• GEIS
• Gleeson Labs/Co-lab
• Hemingway Development
• Intercontinental Hotel Group
• J Scheer Investments
• K & D Group
• Marcus & Millichap
• Marriott
• Microsoft
• Middlefield Bank
• Morgan Stanley
• New York Community Bank
• Nationwide Insurance
• NESCO
• Orange Theory Fitness
• Prestige Management
• Real Life Real Estate Group
• Squire Patton Boggs
• Starbucks
• St. Vincent Medical Center
• Stark Enterprises
• Sun Life
• Uber
• University Hospital Systems
• Welty Building Co.
• Weston Hurd

Assignments

• $100MM portfolio assemblage - Real Life Real Estate Group
• 55 Public Square sale
• Post Offices Plaza sale
• Dealer Tire - 180,000 SF
• “The 9” and County Office Headquarters - 500,000 SF
• Downtown Land Assembly - “nuCLEus” $26,000,000 - For proposed $500 million mixed used
  development
• Sale of Terminal Tower for luxury apartment conversion for $38.5MM"

Affiliations

• Akron Cleveland Association of REALTORS (ACAR)
• Ohio Association of Realtors (OAR)
• National Association of Realtors (NAR)
• Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Executive Committee

Awards & Recognition

• NAIOP “Office Broker of the Year”
• NAIOP “Office Broker of the Year Nominee”
• NAIOP “Investment Transaction of the Year”
• NAIOP “Office Transaction of the Year”