John Holloway

About John Holloway

John H. Holloway, Vice President, began his commercial real estate career in 2007 specializing from the start in Retail real estate. His focus and expertise are in both the leasing, tenant representation and sale of existing shopping centers along with new construction development projects throughout the state of Indiana. He has counseled & brokered numerous deals with Landlord clients including Core Acquisitions, Coastal Equities, Kohl’s, Rural King, Creekstone Investments, Quattro Development – along with other local, regional and international owners.John started his retail real estate career at Sandor Development & Sand Capital as a Leasing Manager where his primary role was leasing shopping centers throughout the company’s Midwest portfolio. Additionally, John was involved in new acquisitions where he gained valuable experience regarding the due diligence and entitlement process related to acquiring and repositioning distressed retail assets.Prior to Veritas, John was the Director of Real Estate at The Cellular Connection (TCC)(2011 – 2018), the nation’s largest Verizon dealer, where he was actively involved in new market strategy and the entirety of the real estate process that supported the organic growth of TCC’s store portfolio in the Midwest & Northeast. Through his time at TCC, John was an integral part of the successful growth of their retail footprint of 1,200+ stores nationwide.John is a life-long Indiana resident, he graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with a double-major in Real Estate Finance & Entrepreneurship. He is the co-founder and President of the IU Real Estate Alumni Network, whose mission is to mentor current real estate students attending IU and IU Indy.

Experience

1. Retail Real Estate Dealmaker

   Veritas Realty

   Oct 2018 — Present · Indianapolis, IN, US

   I specialize in making deals as effective and efficient to all parties involved by utilizing years of experience on being a Landlord, Seller, Buyer, and Tenant. For tenants we like using retail real estate as a competitive advantage that starts with site selection. Our team specializes in giving a birds eye view of a retail market and breaking it down to understand the trade area, retail corridors, shopping patterns, and finding the sites to optimize the retailers core demographic to create a competitive advantage via real estate. For Landlords we like our listings to be omnipresent and use targeted prospecting where we identify most likely users and make sure the property is easily found for any users searching online or in person.Veritas Realty is the Indiana Affiliate of Chainlinks the Nations Leading Retail Brokerage Network - https://chainlinks.com/It takes a retailer & landlord to know retail real estate and to understand operations, budgets, the real estate committee approval processes, and getting deals from initial market review to store opening. I spent over 7 years with The Cellular Connection, the nations largest Verizon agent as the Director of Real Estate with a focus on market strategy, site selection, and lease negotiations helping grow from 150 stores to over 500 from coast to coast. I specialize in giving a birds eye view of a market and breaking it down to understand the trade area, retail corridors, shopping patterns, and finding the sites to optimize the retailers core demographic to create a competitive advantage via real estate. Prior to that I was with Sandor Development in the role of Leasing Agent for properties in Indiana & Ohio.

Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Professional Development Certificate, Trauma Informed Care

• Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

  BS, Finance/Real Estate & Entrepreneurship

  2004 — 2008