MKC Asset Management (“MKCAM”) is a Long Beach-based commercial real estate property management firm specializing in comprehensive commercial real estate management and consulting services. Although formed in March 2006, the firm actually has its roots originating back in 1993 when current MKC partners Michael McClune and Cathy Sowma resigned from the preeminent and national powerhouse, LaSalle Pa
rtners (now Jones Lang LaSalle), where they had both been senior members and executives of its Southwestern U.S. Region and had each obtained extensive training and invaluable experience over a number of years, to start up the MKC forerunner, New America Asset Management Services (“NAAMS”). During NAAMS’s existence (because of the successes and expertise that it had developed, LaSalle Partners acquired it in late 1997), the NAAMS staff grew to include numerous “ex-LaSalle Partners” management professionals and a variety of specialized talents including commercial real estate acquisition Due Diligence, CAM/OE Escalations, Vendor Contracting, Lease Administration, Tenant Lease Abstracting, Property Budgeting, and the creation and implementation of efficient, effective and automated/computerized Property Management Systems. Today, the members of NAAMS’s successor, MKC Asset Management, are recognized in the industry as experts in each of these areas, and have been asked for assistance by such corporate and real estate leaders as Keesal, Young & Logan, The Irvine Company, LBA Realty, Pacific Western Bank, and Mazda North America, to name a few.
