EXPERIENCE
Steve Leider has maintained a reputation as the Tri-County's preeminent commercial agent for large-scale retail representation for many years. As a result, Steve has been directly involved in virtually every major retail project from Oxnard to Paso Robles in the last several years. Steve brings nearly 20 years of Santa Barbara-based commercial real estate experience to the Leider Hayes team, as well as the expertise necessary to handle all of the complexities of these large retail transactions from land acquisition to lease-up to sale. Steve also focuses his energies on investment properties, having assisted his clients in the acquisition and sales of some of the largest investment deals in the Santa Barbara region.

Steve took his entrepreneurial leap in 1996, when he founded Leider Commercial Real Estate, the predecessor to what became the Leider Group. This move allowed him to focus on more personalized, efficient, and effective client service. Able to concentrate on the true needs of his clients, Steve continued to solidify his position as an industry leader in the entitlements of commercial development, tenant representation, and investment sales across the entire Tri-County region. He originally earned this reputation at CB Commercial in Santa Barbara, where he worked for nine years, consistently attaining honors as one of the firm's top brokers.

Prior to entering the world of commercial real estate, Steve gained valuable management and sales training at Xerox Corp., where he garnered President's Club honors for excellence in nine consecutive years. Steve brings an intense focus and a broad knowledge of the overall market that enables him to uncover creative deal potential across the Tri-Counties.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• 2004 - Present: Leider Hayes Commercial, Partner, Founder
  
• 2001 - 2004: Leider Group, Partner, Founder
  
• 1996 - 2001: Leider Commercial Real Estate, Founder
  
• 1987 - 1996: CB Commercial, Broker
  
• 1977 - 1987: Xerox Corp., Regional Sales Manager
  

CLIENTS & CASE STUDIES
Steve has worked with an extremely wide range of clients in the Tri-County region and beyond. His client list includes individual investors as well as some of largest firms in the community and nationwide. The following represent just a few of his notable transactions:

• Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc:
  
• Orchid Bowl Center: Hired by Kinko's founder, Paul Orfalea, to approach the owners of the neighborhood shopping center anchored by Orchid Bowl bowling alley (now Zodo's Bowling) for a potential purchase.
  
• Elliott Homes: Hired to secure a qualified buyer for the Goleta neighborhood shopping center, anchored by Albertson's and Longs Drugs.
  
• Seaward Center: Represented the buyer and seller in the marketing and sale of a three-story, 60,000 sf office building in Ventura.
  
• Saks Fifth Ave.: Negotiated long-term lease with Saks Fifth Avenue in prominent downtown Santa Barbara building.
  
• Buellton Town Center: Development and investment sale that included assemblage of vacant land, entitlements, development approvals, and land sales to Albertson's and Longs Drugs.
  
• Cypress Plaza: Represented Halferty Development in the land acquisition, assemblage, and leasing of this 130,000 sf Morro Bay deal involving Albertson's and Rite-Aid.
  
• Camino Real Marketplace: Represented Wynmark in this 500,000 sf regional power center in Goleta, leasing to tenants such as Home Depot, Costco, Staples, Linens N' Things, and McDonalds.
  
• Albertson's: Helped the national grocery chain secure multiple locations including: Paso Robles, Atascadero, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, Orcutt, and Buellton.
  
• Home Depot: Represented the national retail chain in property acquisitions in Goleta, Santa Maria, Atascadero, San Luis Obispo, and Lompoc.
  
• Woodland Plaza: Represented the major southland development firm, Halferty Development, in the four-phase Woodland Plaza shopping center development deal in Paso Robles that included entitlements, tenant representation, and project leasing.
  
• Santa Barbara Business Park: Represented both buyer and seller (Rossi Enterprises and Towbes) in the $25 million investment sale of the 192,000 sf deal involving five parceled R&D buildings.
  
• Granada Building: Assisted Rossi Enterprises in the purchase of the 68,000 sf historical building in downtown Santa Barbara in 2001; also parceled and sold 32,000 sf of the building to Santa Barbara Center of Performing Arts.
  
• CAPTEC: Covina AMC 30-plex Theatres: co-brokered the investment sale of the theatre complex in 2004; represented the owner, CAPTEC in the 95,000 sf deal.
  
• Somera Capital - San Francisco: Equity placement of $8 million into converted warehouse building leased by E-Trade.
  

EDUCATION
Steve received his B.S. in Marketing from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California.

AFFILIATIONS

• Member of the International Council of Shopping Centers
  
• Trustee of Santa Barbara Middle School
  
• Board Member of CALM (Child Abuse Listening and Meditation)
  
• Past President of Santa Barbara Zoological Society
  
• Member or the Urban Land Institute
  

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