
Industrial, Land, and Investment Properties with primary focus on renewable energy-related real estate opportunities - John Filli joined NAI Horizon in June 1992. He now has considerable experience in dealing with long term ground leases when used to accommodate installation of solar voltaic electric generating facilities and wind farms. He also has extensive experience in dealing with properties that involve clean rooms, wet labs, process piping, and energy reclaimrecovery systems. Finally, John has extensive experience with quasi-industrialretail properties, environmentally challenged sites, property searches and evaluations, acquisitions, and dispositions.
Prior to joining NAI Horizon, John worked as a sales associate in the Industrial Division of Scott Jackson Brokerage, Inc.. During his 2 year tenure there, John completed a variety of sales and lease transactions totaling more than 2.8 million dollars. Prior to joining S.J.B., John was employed as a Site Acquisition Manager with Castillo Company, a local real estate consulting firm. His two and one-half years with the Castillo Company were spent traveling throughout the United States to acquire land for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. While employed with the Castillo Company, John evaluated and purchased over 12 million dollars worth of land for State Farm. Prior to working in commercial real estate, John was actively involved in the mechanical contracting industry where he completed a variety of notable and challenging projects such as: installation of the solar heating and cooling system at the Wrigley's Mansion; provision of consulting engineering services to improve the efficiency of an existing 1.2 Million CFM Vane Axial Fan Mine Ventilation System serving two inclined 4,000' long x 1,900' deep, mine shafts, at the former Hecla Underground Copper Mine located 30 miles SW of Casa Grande; the installation of the air-conditioning andor ventilation systems for all ancillary support buildings related to the operation of the Cyprus Bagdad Open Pit Mine in Bagdad, Arizona; The design and installation of an air-conditioning, ventilation, and energy reclaim system for the first fully airconditioned circuit board manufacturing plant in Arizona for IDEA Courier (later purchased by GTE); the majority of air-conditioning, ventilation, clean room, and process piping work at the Medtronic's Corporation manufacturing facility, Tempe; all of the air-conditioning, ventilation, clean room, and process piping work at Emm Semi, Tempe; installation of the air-conditioning and ventilation system serving the UPTIFS pilot training facility at the former Williams AFB, Mesa, Arizona; Installation of the air-conditioning and ventilating systems serving SRP's Pumped Storage Electric Power Generating Systems that were installed by Bechtel Corporation at Morman Flat, Horse Mesa, and Roosevelt Dams along the Salt River; and Installation of the air-conditioning and ventilation systems serving the Adam's Hotel and Terminal 3 at Phoenix Sky Harbor. Of the more than 30 years of experience that John has in mechanical contracting and construction, twelve were spent in ownership and management positions.