Margaret Meginniss
Principal

With over 30 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry, Margaret Meginniss is an expert in retail and restaurant leasing. Prior to her founding Starfire Retail in 2001, Margaret served as Director of Leasing for Williams Jackson Ewing for 17 years, where she spearheaded novel food hall concepts and established landmark urban projects. Margaret possesses a diverse skillset and broad knowledge of her field, having built and maintained strong relationships with hundreds of retailers, restaurant groups, and landlords across the United States.

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Margaret's vision for merchandising and innate sense for food concepts — from fine dining to  fresh marketplaces — enables her to create retail environments that are inviting and profitable. Her strong financial and legal background, creativity and aesthetic eye grant her the ability to re-instate value in antiquated projects and re-plan, re-merchandise, and lease spaces to regenerate a successful and lucrative center. 

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Margaret's has consulted on dozens of projects and negotiated hundreds of leases. Recent noteworthy projects include representation of ownership leasing 300,000 square feet of upscale lifestyle, fashion, and restaurant retail in Baltimore's Harbor East as well as successfully re-positioning Baltimore's Quarry Lake as a retail and fine dining destination.

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Additional development and leasing projects for which Ms. Meginniss played a significant role include Washington's Union Station, New York City's Grand Central Terminal, Philadelphia's Liberty Place and the Chevy Chase Pavilion. She is known for making world class restaurant deals such as Cipriani at Grand Central, Charlie Palmer's Metrazur, The Campbell Apartment and has had tremendous success in finding high volume locations for restaurant groups including Rosa Mexicano and Sullivan's Steakhouse.

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