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| To describe
Shannon Reilly as merely energetic is to damn her with faint praise.
She is barely seated when an acquaintance mentions her interest in fishing. Suddenly she's up again, zipping out of the room to retrieve a photo off her desk - a snapshot from a recent vacation where she landed a 500-pound marlin. It put up a heckuva fight too, she recounts, taking nearly two hours to get into the boat. One suspects that had the saltwater duel lasted much longer, Reilly, a principal with The Keewaydin Group in Minneapolis, simply would have figured out a way to coax the big fish alongside the charter, and with a few well-chosen words, convinced him how it would be in everybody's best interest that he just climb aboard. |
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As a tenant representative
working with many of the Twin Cities' more prominent businesses, Reilly
has become an adroit negotiator. Her collegues compliment her as
a "bulldog in lipstick," and in today's office market, that's a reputation
sure to keep her in high demand among clients.
"I was one of those people who was lucky to find something early in college that they really could love," Reilly said of how she steered herself into real estate soon after enrolling at Arizona State. " I really enjoy what I'm doing right now and Peter (Kitchak, president of The Keewaydin Group) has given me every opportunity to excel and I only see myself growing in this job. This is something I'm going to be doing for a long time." She has advised area companies on real estate deals including over 2 million square feet since joining Keewaydin in 1988. Before joining Keewaydin she worked at Rubloff Inc., a Chicago based real estate company. She is also an avid scuba diver, a frequent traveler and she recently waided through the seven-month renovation of her Warehouse District loft. Particular attention during the project was spend designing the 800-square-foot kitchen - she loves to cook, and of course when guests come over, that seems to be the place where everybody wants to congegrate. But if her "Work hard, play hard," philosophy makes Reilly sound as if her life was lifted directly out of an athletic shoe commercial, she tempers her hard-driving ethic by bringing it to work on community projects such as the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, which she helped relocate into a new facility last year. She recalled one meeting as the project was ending where she found herself so moved by the dedication and the effort displayed by the group to protect children threatened by family violence that she was near tears. "That, by far, has been the most gratifying real estate deal that I've ever been involved with," she said. -Dave Price |
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