94 E Tabernacle
St George, Utah 84770
Phone: 435.688.8886
Fax: 435-688-8450
A 1982 graduate of Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, and national merit scholar, Graig attended the University of Texas at Austin on full academic scholarship, majoring in physics, working in the office of a prominent urban office developer. Upon returning to Las Vegas in 1988, he became a Nevada real estate licensee and began working as a sales agent for Century 21. He became a sales instructor in 1989, and accepted the position of Vice President and Director of Commercial Services in 1990. Graig was responsible for all non-residential training and business for the office. While at Century 21, he was a national finalist for the 1989 listing competition, and received numerous other sales awards.
In 1990, he joined Diversified Realty as a senior associate, quickly becoming sales manager in 1991. Under his direction, the 12 member land-specialty firm gained rapid market share, averaging 14% - 20% of overall inventory share based on Board of Realtor statistics. In late 1991, Graig became Vice President, and in 1992, President of Diversified Realty. In charge of the firm’s national affiliation, New America Network (now NAI), he coordinated the network system, and helped the company achieve true full-service status.
In mid 1993, Graig Griffin and partners formed Encore Commercial, a full-service commercial real estate office. He served as the first President until 1996, thereafter working as an active agent within the firm as Executive Vice President. Encore was awarded the NAI membership, and Graig served as director of all national accounts. In August of 1997, Griffin, Ross & Julian was formed to provide an experience and technology rich environment for the area’s top agents, handling large transactions and high-profile accounts such as Nevada Power. Graig accepted the position of Executive Vice President of 760-agent Prudential’s NAI Americana Commercial division in 2000, with duties including training, recruiting and technology enhancement, including the implementation of a GIS program. In July of 2001, Sperry Van Ness recruited him as Director of Business Development for Southern Nevada, and in 2002, he moved to St. George Utah and affiliated with the area’s top firm, Colliers International. In May of 2004, he and partner Steve Kemp opened Kemp Griffin Commercial Real Estate to offer Southern Utah a new level of service. He continues to work as an active agent specializing in land, commercial sales and leasing, and large project consulting.
Graig has experience in most areas of commercial and development real estate including; retail, office, and industrial sales and leasing; development; investment sales; gaming properties; and independent fee-based consulting. A highly skilled negotiator, he speaks regularly at real estate conventions from a local to national level, and is an approved instructor for real estate continuing education classes in the State of Nevada. He won the 1996 Chairman’s Award, NAI’s highest honor for brokerage excellence, and was named in Las Vegas Business Press 1995 annual “Top 40 under 40” business leaders for the category of commercial real estate. Graig wrote and taught Clark County School District’s first full-year real estate course, with elements on urban planning, property analysis, and development. He is active in many industry groups, and is a candidate for the CCIM designation. Mr. Griffin is currently involved in several developments, and works regularly as a consultant for other developers on project design and brokerage. He is a principal in multiple commercial properties Southern Utah, with several projects pending, and understands the development process and landlord experience well.
As an agent, broker, manager, developer, and principal, Graig Griffin has been responsible for the completion of over 3000 transactions valued in excess of $1.4 Billion, including over $200 Million in personal transaction volume in a single year (1998). He is licensed in Nevada and Utah.
Landbaron Investments Utah Affilliate
Property Selection and Evaluation, Asset Enhancement, Development
Landbaron is a premier Las Vegas land syndicate, with over $200 million in assets. Mr. Griffin is in charge of selecting property in Southern Utah for purchase, completing the due diligence process, monitoring closing, and any entitlement work of development on those properties. Mr. Griffin is also a principal investor in Landbaron deals in Southern Utah.
Steam Engine Meadows – Brian Head Utah
Principal, project design, marketing and development
Consisting of 283 acres in the heart of the Brian Head ski area, this project is the premier custom home development in the community. Currently 38 lots are complete, with more in development.
Sunset Corner Lifestyle Center
Project design assistance, leasing
Southern Utah’s first true lifestyle center, located on the Northwest corner of Sunset and Bluff, this 300,000 square foot project involves entertainment mixed use and retail.
Other Utah retail centers of note: Pine View Plaza, Commerce Pointe, The Shoppes at Snow Canyon, River Crossing, Sienna Hills MPC, 3-D Commercial Center, The Shoppes at Santa Clara
Harmony Mountain Ranch
Project design, coordination, marketing- 2000 acre community
Located just north of St. George Utah, Harmony Mountain Ranch includes 96 20-acre lots designed for very high-end vacation homes. The project, overseen from design to completion will feature a world-class equestrian facility, full services including water with high-pressure hydrants on every lot for fire control, natural gas and high speed data cable. Mr. Griffin created all of the marketing materials including the custom mapping.
Flamingo Corridor Revitalization Project (for Nevada Power)
Project concept, consolidation of transmission and distribution power lines and project design, leasing
Undertaken on behalf of Nevada Power Company. This included concept origination, analysis, design, entitlement, marketing, negotiation and leasing of two linear miles of frontage on Flamingo Road from Maryland Parkway to Koval Lane. This involved a major transmission line redesign and consolidation, interfacing with several NPC departments, other utilities, end-users, and virtually every branch of Clark County Current Planning. What originally cost Nevada Power over $250,000 in annual landscape costs now brings in almost ten times that amount in net annual revenues and has a gross lease valuation in excess of $200 million.
Tenaska (for Texas Power Partners)
Site location and evaluation for a $1.2 Billion quad gas turbine generation facility
Involved location and mapping of several hundred miles of power and natural gas transmission lines throughout Southern California and Nevada to find suitable generation facility locations. A site northeast of Las Vegas was selected and contracted, but was dropped in favor of another site in Oregon.
InterX Pharmaceuticals (Under FDA supervision in conjunction with Chinese and American firms)
Site location and evaluation for an opiate processing facility
Involved in-detail mapping of the entire valley, seeking a site with adequate security to process raw opium in large quantities for standard prescription drugs such as Demerol, Morphine, etc. The one-acre facility was estimated to cost $40 Million dollars to construct. Consideration had to given for seismic stability, soil quality, road surface, quality and width, proximity and response time to fire, police, SWAT, and military, utility capacity, distance to Federal rights-of-way, and other factors. A site was selected and contracted but cancelled as the Chinese joint venture partners lost key political allies within the People's Republic of China necessary for exporting opium.
Watt Commercial Properties
North Mesa Plaza (North Las Vegas, NV)
Lease-up, design input, overall marketing of multi-anchored regional power center involving VON's Grocery, WalMart, Office Max; a total of 650,000 square feet of retail. This center is located in an emerging market sector where census-based demographic data was wildly inaccurate. Leasing to national firms requiring specialized data proved very difficult, so a custom demographic survey was produced based on actual information. The Center is now open with mostly national tenants.
Numerous other Las Vegas retail centers totaling well in excess of 3 million square feet of leasing.
United States Justice Department (Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization)
Site location for INS processing center (Las Vegas)
Involved detailed demographic analysis to find most suitable site for primary immigration processing facility. The site is open.
ReSource Consulting Group
GIS based data development and processing
In 1996, two partners and Graig Griffin formed a company to provide high-end GIS based information processing and mapping to the Southern Nevada real estate community. ReSource offered several products and produced the first non-governmental full-color aerial map of Las Vegas with full geocoding. The company was sold in 1998 and still operates, producing the ReSource Books, a sectional map set for Clark County that has become an industry standard, designed by Mr. Griffin.