Lance Gilliam, SCSM, SCLS, CDP
Managing Partner
Lance has spent most of his career focused on retail tenant representation and retail project development. He has represented national, regional and local restaurateurs and retailers throughout Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and most of the southeastern and western U.S.
Lance’s clients include and have included firms such as ALDI, Bally Total Fitness, Circuit City, Food Lion, Frost Bank, H-E-B, iPic, the J.C. Penney Co., Kroger Co., Michaels, Office Depot, PetSmart, Price Club, Regal Entertainment | Edwards Theatres, Sun & Ski Sports and Washington Mutual.
He also represents or has represented Houston local restaurateurs including Charles Clark & Grant Cooper (Ibiza, Catalan, Brasserie 19) Jason Gould & Scott Tycer (Aries, Gravitas), Rebecca Masson, Monica Pope (t’afia and Beavers) and Philippe Schmit (philippe).
With his partner Ed James, Lance has leased numerous significant retail projects in Houston, Texas. Successes include Town & Country Village, one of the country’s first lifestyle shopping centers, Washington Heights, a transformative urban infill redevelopment, and Copperwood Village, The Shops at Bella Terra, The Shops at Riverstone and Silverlake Village --- all community shopping centers closely associated with master planned communities. Lance has played an active role in the redevelopment and/or disposition of the former Pin Oak Stables, Town & Country Square, a former Incredible Universe, a former Garden Ridge Pottery and retail developments at the intersections of Harrisburg at Wayside and Montrose at Westheimer.
Projects leased by Lance have included Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, Cinemark, Garden Ridge Pottery, H-E-B, Home Depot, Incredible Universe, Lowe’s, Kohl’s, Kroger, Marshalls, Randall’s, Ross Stores, Target, Walgreens and Walmart.
Lance is a managing partner and shareholder in UCR moodrambin PAGE and shareholder in Moody Rambin Interests.
Lance was formerly Executive Vice President of Grubb & Ellis Retail Properties Division where he was the company’s top-producing retail broker nationally for the four years preceding his departure with Ed James to form Moody Rambin Interests’ Retail Properties Division. He was also a member of Grubb & Ellis’ National Retail Tenant Services Group. While at Grubb & Ellis, Lance earned the Senior Marketing Consultant (SMC) designation and was named to the Henry S. Miller / Grubb & Ellis Chairman’s Council.
Lance earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate with Honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He also attended Southern Methodist’s graduate program in Real Estate and Regional Science.

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| affiliations | Exec Committee/Co-Chair of Advisory Services Committee, ULI Houston District Council Adjunct Professor of RE, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston Dean, School of Open-Air Development for ICSC President & Board of Directors, Children’s Museum of Houston Board of Commissioners, Houston Housing Authority Former Member of the Vestry, St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Former Board Member, Urban League of Houston |
