Michael M. Reid joined Newmark in 2017 and currently serves as a Senior Managing Director in the company’s Atlanta office. A 37-year corporate real estate veteran and one of the country’s top industrial brokers, Reid has substantial expertise in all aspects of industrial real estate. He specializes in marketing large, vacant, single-user industrial properties for sale or lease in metro and second-tier southeastern markets.
Reid began his industrial real estate career at Cushman & Wakefield in 1985 and joined Binswanger in 1988 as a Senior Vice President for 30 years, where he led its Tennessee and Kentucky operations.
In 2017, when coming on board with Newmark, he teamed with Bart Hardison who was formerly with the Hart Corporation. The Reid-Hardison Team have a combined 65 years of industrial experience in the southeast United States and in just the past 4 years they have handled 72 sales/lease transactions totaling over 21 million square feet of space with transactional revenue of over $400 million.
Partial List of Transactions
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Union City, TN: 2.2 million SF
- Coors Brewing, Memphis, TN: 1.3 million SF
- Home Shopping Network, Piney Flats, TN: 933,000 SF
- Whirlpool Corporation, La Vergne, TN: 865,000 SF
- TJX, Memphis, TN: 800,000 SF
- Food Lion, Clinton, TN: 772,000 SF
- Quebecor World/World Color, Church Hill, TN: 763,000 SF
- Bekeart Corporation, Dyersburg, TN: 638,000 SF
- Masco Industries, Morristown, TN: 620,000 SF
- Quebecor World/World Color, Dresden, TN: 619,000 SF
- C/W Capital, Chattanooga, TN: 500,000 SF
- John Deere, Jefferson City, TN: 495,000 SF
- Cobalt Yachts, Vonore, TN: 375,000 SF
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Knoxville, TN: 334,000 SF
- American Greetings, Bardstown, KY: 413,000 SF
- RR Donnelley, Gallatin, TN: 496,000 SF
- Basic Sports Wear, Gallatin, TN: 450,000 SF
- Henkel / Sun Products, Dyersburg, TN: 499,000 SF
- Marketing Alliance Group, Chattanooga, TN: 480,000 SF
- Dew, LLC, Chattanooga, TN: 1,200,000 SF
- SJ Water, Knoxville, TN: 360,000 SF
- Titan Tire international, Brownsville, TX: 1,040,000 SF
Partial Client List
- Allied Signal
- Ashland Chemical
- Briggs & Stratton
- Cummins Engine
- Delta Faucet
- RR Donnelley
- Rubbermaid
- Sonoco Products
- Stag Industrial
- Toys R Us
- Fleetwood Homes
- Fruit of the Loom
- Hubbell Inc.
- Kraft General Foods
- Leggett & Platt
- Tupperware
- United Technologies
- VF Corporation
- Walker Manufacturing
- Weyerhaeuser
Awards, Achievements and Activities
- Power Broker, CoStar, 2013 - 2016
Education
Reid graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial relations. He was a four-year letterman on the UNC soccer team and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.