About James

James DeCremer serves as Principal and Market Leader within Avison Young’s Phoenix office. He is an active brokerage producer, specializing in retail property leasing, tenant representation, investment, acquisitions and dispositions across the region. As Market Leader, he is also focused on driving the strategic growth, operational leadership, and market positioning of the Phoenix office. This includes growing revenue across all brokerage service lines—tenant representation, agency leasing, and investment sales—as well as expanding non-brokerage services, including Project Management and Real Estate Management Services (REMS).

With more than 20 years in the commercial real estate industry, James has built a solid reputation of bringing an analytic, high-energy, service-oriented approach to his clients and their assets. He has served as a Principal since joining Avison Young in 2019 when the firm acquired retail brokerage company, Strategic Retail Group (SRG) of which James was Partner since 2007. James and his SRG team saw an opportunity to leverage a larger platform, deeper bench, and greater resources and has worked to realize that vision throughout the Phoenix region during his tenure at Avison Young.

James is responsible for proactively overseeing the project leasing and pad sales of multiple power centers, grocery-anchored shopping centers, mixed-use projects, and other retail properties throughout Arizona. He also oversees marketing more than 100 acres of exclusive land and pad listings in the region, in addition to strategically working with all types of retail and restaurant users on their site selection, expansion and repositioning objectives.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he was also captain of the baseball team and the WIAC scholar athlete of the year. In addition to work and travel, James loves playing baseball with his son James III and golfing with his daughter Maryn.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Finance - University of Wisconsin La Crosse

Credentials

• International Council of Shopping Centers (I.C.S.C.)
• Urban Land Institute Arizona (ULI)
• Valley Partnership

• Vestar
• LaSalle
• Frontera Development
• UBS
• West Valley Properties
• Shin Yen Management
• Wilson Property Services