EXCLUSIVE — Harrison Street appoints managing director and head of digital real estate

Michael Hochanadel, a former senior managing director at JLL, has joined Harrison Street as a managing director and head of digital real estate.

In his new role, Hochanadel will be responsible for leading the firm’s digital real estate business and executing the sourcing, analysis and closing of joint venture partnerships and investments in the sector.

Hochanadel brings more than 15 years of global real estate investment experience to the position. He previously closed more than $2 billion of data center transactions involving turnkey colocation sites, powered shells, carrier hotels and high-performance computing centers across 18 U.S. and European markets.

Since he joined JLL in 2005, Hochanadel has been involved in the execution of more than 49 million square feet of transactions valued at more than $7 billion across a variety of sectors, including data center and the life science real estate sectors.

“Digital real estate has proven to be a highly r