Lawrence K. Jensen
President/CEO
Larry Jensen is President and CEO of Commercial Advisors, LLC. He has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate business. Mr. Jensen was awarded “Commercial Broker of the Year” for the Memphis region by his real estate industry peers for 2005. He was also recently featured in an article “Commercial Real Estate 101”, in Business Tennessee Magazine.

Mr. Jensen and his team advise and represent corporations, institutions and individuals with innovative strategies, planning, and implementation related to business and commercial real estate. His clients have included: ServiceMaster; FedEx Corporation; FedEx Express; Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz; AutoZone; Hewlett Packard; ACH Food Companies; Wright Medical Technologies; Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare System; First Alliance Bank; and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

As a lifelong Memphian, Mr. Jensen has worked in the Mid-South community serving many local organizations in a leadership capacity. Mr. Jensen was recently President of Memphis Tomorrow, an organization of 28 CEOs of the larger Memphis-area companies and institutions. He also served as Chairman of the Memphis Regional Chamber in 2001. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of teh Shelby Farms Park Conservancy and on the executive committee of the Aerotropolis initiative.

Credentials
• B.A. Journalism from the University of Memphis
• Licensed broker in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi
• Member Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
• Former Chairman Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce 2001
• Member Public Building Authority for FedEx Forum
• Chairman, The Steering Committee for the Governors’ Alliance for Regional Excellence
• Member Lambda Alpha Real Estate Society

Selected Transactions
• Advisory services to Junior League of Memphis on its long-term facilities planning.
• Advisory services to ServiceMaster for the relocation of their corporate headquarters to Memphis
• Advisory services to the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in the purchase of the downtown Memphis United States Post Office
• 17 acres – Represented St. Patrick’s Church in the purchase of land
• 400,000 square feet – Represented Sharp Electronics in the lease of industrial space
• 13,000 square feet – Represented Memphis Orthopaedic Group in the lease of medical office space
• 1,300,000 square feet – Represented Hewlett-Packard in the lease of a distribution center
• 900,000 Square foot Federal Express World Technology Center, office and lease on 118 acre tract
• 89 acres – Federal Express World Headquarters – Land
• 90,000 square feet – FDX Corp. Office Headquarters
• 95,000 square feet – Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz Headquarters
• 250,000 square feet of office space, Baker Donelson Attorneys in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Jackson, Memphis, New Orleans, and Chattanooga.
• 51 acres Regions Bank Administration Center. Land acquisition and development of 250,000 square foot bank operations center, along with overall portfolio analysis
• 200,000 square feet – Headquarters Baptist Memorial Healthcare System
• Four state site selection study for Buckeye Technologies
• 60,000 square feet ACH Foods – Corporate Headquarters in Memphis
• 13,000 square feet ACH Foods – Sales & Marketing Office in Chicago
• 13,000 square feet ACH Foods – Corporate Headquarters in Mexico City
• Gate Gourmet – Disposition of surplus properties, $23 Million: Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco
• Wyatt Tarrant & Combs – 36,000 square feet office lease, Memphis
• Semmes Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute – Structured and negotiated a build-to-suit, 50,000 square feet medical office facility, Memphis, TN