Aric Browne
Aric Browne joined Ethan Christopher LLC as a Managing Director in 2002. During that period of time the firm has acquired three shopping centers totaling 180,000 square feet in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Arizona subsidiary of the firm, Ethan Christopher Arizona LLC, manages four shopping centers in Arizona totaling 220,000 square feet.
Prior to joining Ethan Christopher, Browne operated his own company with partners at NewMark Merrill Companies, which owns and operates in excess of 2 million square feet of retail. He was with NewMark from 2000 to 2002.
For the previous ten years, Browne was affiliated with Westwood Financial Company, where he was the Managing Director, Executive Vice President. In this role he supervised over 30 persons including the Director of Property Management and Director of Leasing, and each of their departments.
The portfolio he supervised consisted of in excess of 4.5 million square feet of mostly retail, spread across 127 assets in 14 states. Of the 127 assets, there were over 30 anchored centers, and 65 unanchored strip shopping centers.
Under Browne's direction, Westwood Financial Corp. grew its Phoenix Portfolio from approximately 250,000 square feet in three shopping centers in Phoenix to 18 shopping centers in Phoenix with over 2,000,000 square feet of retail. Thereafter, Browne staffed and set up the Phoenix Regional Office of Westwood Financial after previously operating each of these assets out of California through 1998.
Browne has been active in the commercial real estate industry since 1980, when he graduated from U.S.C. with a business degree in 1980.
He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.