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Voice: (318) 222-8700, ext. #1111 Email: joannw@sealynet.com Jo Ann Wheless lists, sells and leases retail and commercial properties primarily in the Shreveport and Bossier City markets. As a specialist in the retail market, Jo Ann provides her clients with a wide array of valuable services including site selection and contract/lease negotiations, marketing plans, consultations, and space evaluations and planning coordination. With twenty-eight years of experience in the real estate business, Wheless has developed working relationships with major developers, national firms and many local and regional companies such as the Querbes Land Company, LLC, Motor Finance Company, LLC and JLN Properties, LP. She has completed transactions for developers representing Food Lion, Office Depot, Books a Million, and Dollar General and has represented retailers such as Wendy’s International, Raising Cane’s and AllTel. She has represented several ownership groups in the sale of area shopping centers such as Portico, Canterbury Square, Sunset Village and the South Park Mall. Her association with these national companies combined with her experience in the local market has given her a solid and complete understanding of the retail market. Wheless has been actively involved in the development of Sealy’s retail marketing plan and has greatly contributed to the company’s client data base. She has been instrumental in creating leasing and marketing materials which offer clients up-to-date reports on the physical, economic and space plan data of various properties in the local market such as Uptown Shopping Center and Heart of Bossier Commercial Center. Her extensive knowledge of the retail market and availability of Sealy’s Resource Data Center, enable her to provide accurate inventory absorption studies and annual retail market reviews. Wheless holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from McNeese State University and is a CCIM Candidate. She is a Realtor Member and past president of both the Shreveport Bossier Board of Realtors and the Commercial Investment Division of the Northwest Louisianan Association of Realtors and past recipient of the distinguished Realtor of the Year Award. She is a member of the Louisiana REALTORS® Association, the National Association of REALTORS® and the International Council of Shopping Centers. She is past president of Shreveport Green and has received local, state and national awards for her community involvement in environmental and beautification efforts. Jo Ann is married to Buz Wheless and has two sons, B. J., 21 and Mac, 19.
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