Louis W. Frillman has been engaged in the real estate business nationwide since March 1975. During this time, he has developed skills in all areas of real estate practice including the acquisition, disposition, asset management, development, leasing, sale, financing, and valuation of industrial, commercial, and residential properties, including all major types of income-producing real estate. . Currently, Mr. Frillman is President of GVA Marquette Advisors, a national commercial real estate consulting firm.
GVA Marquette Advisors currently operates a national real estate counseling practice with offices in Minneapolis and Seattle. GVA Marquette provides comprehensive solutions to complex real estate problems and is practiced at managing and overseeing large real estate consulting projects nationwide. Mr. Frillman formerly was Executive Vice President of Marquette Partners, a 490 employee firm that managed and oversaw 45 million sf of investment properties of all types, including primarily regional and community shopping centers nationwide, and also office properties and industrial investment and corporate portfolios.
In 1973, Mr. Frillman graduated from the College of St. Thomas with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Finance. He has completed all courses relating to earning and maintaining real estate valuation designations, licenses, and brokerage licenses, in multiple states. Mr. Frillman regularly attends professional educational seminars and has completed courses in a variety of related subjects including market feasibility analysis, syndication structure and analysis, subdivision development, the valuation of industrial real estate, the valuation of multiple-family properties, analysis of deminimus PUDs, methods of joint venture financing, valuation of business enterprises, and others.
In addition to attending courses in real estate, Mr. Frillman has lectured and taught real estate valuation for the University of St. Thomas and has been a guest lecturer at numerous continuing education seminars for the Law Board, NAIOP, American Society of Real Estate Counselors, and CORENET.
Mr. Frillman is a licensed and bonded real estate broker in the State of Minnesota and is an affiliate member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), and has served on multiple committees of that association. He has also served as judge for the NAIOP "Awards of Excellence".
His community activities include being a full member of the Greater Minneapolis Board of Realtors, an member of the Urban Land Institute, a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Ramsey County Historical Society, the Ramsey Hill Association, and the Riverfront Development Committee of the Downtown Council of Minneapolis.
Mr. Frillman is a member of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors, the real estate counseling affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. He is an elected member of the Appraisal Institute, has served on the MAI Demonstration Appraisal Reports Committee nationally, and was a member of the Board of Directors for the local Institute Chapter as well as on the local admissions committee. He has also served as Chairman of the Candidate Guidance Committee.
He is an invited member of both the Real Estate Counselors (CRE) and Lambda Alpha, the international Land Economics Fraternity.
His charitable activities include eight years as board director of Catholic Charities for the Elderly. In that capacity, he served as development coordinator of Marion Center, a skilled care and assisted living care facility. He was responsible for coordinating all aspects of development including facility design and review, construction management, marketing programming, and ongoing management supervision.
He has completed counseling assignments dealing with significant decisions regarding real property utilized for real estate tax petitions, market feasibility and absorption analysis studies, valuations and disposition of major business properties, and investment analyses for acquisition of property by investors of all types. Geographically, he has been active in providing counsel on complex property issues with no boundary limitations for over 20 years. He ahs completed projects in Europe, the UK, Bermuda, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, and parts of Central America.
He has developed all types of income properties, and in addition, has developed single family custom housing. Finally, he has provided counsel to real estate buyers, sellers, investors and lenders concerning virtually all types of real estate, worldwide.
