Bob Dake joins Sterling Organization as COO – Retail

Sterling Organization, a vertically integrated private equity real estate investment firm headquartered in West Palm Beach, Fla., has hired Bob Dake as COO, retail. He will be responsible for and oversee the firm’s retail real estate operating assets. He will lead the leasing, lease administration, property management, property marketing and construction teams for a growing portfolio of retail real estate assets currently consisting of approximately 60 properties and more than 8 million square feet. Dake will sit on all the firm’s retail fund investment committees.

Dake joins Sterling from ShopOne Centers REIT, where he most recently served as the firm’s COO, overseeing a portfolio of grocery-anchored and necessity-based shopping centers across the country. Over the past decade, Dake has also held senior positions at Brixmor Property Group and Equity One.