Sandy Benak, CCIM

GRANITE PROPERTIES

Sandy Benakjoined Granite Properties in 2000 as Leasing Manager and has spent the last 30 years leasing office space for building landlords in Houston. Previous employers include Paragon Group, Insignia/ESG and Duddlesten Management.

In her role at Granite, Sandy is responsible for the marketing of her projects to prospective tenants and the Houston brokerage community. In addition, Sandy is currently in charge of initiating, negotiating and closing office building leases in the Granite Houston portfolio, which include Granite Towers at Sugar Creek I and II, Granite Tower 290, 3355 West Alabama and Weslayan Tower in Greenway Plaza. These buildings represent over 1.4 million square feet in total.

Sandy is a licensed Real Estate Broker in the State of Texasand has been instrumental in several Boards and organizations in the past, including:

  • CCIM President 2014
  • CCIM Mentor Award – CREW 2013
  • NAIOP 2014 Board Member
  • CCIM National Committee Member – Member Services
  • 2013 Chairman of Market Forecast Competition - CCIM
  • 2013 Head of CCIM Membership Committee
  • 2013 Head of CCIM Internship Committee
  • 2013 Head of CCIM Member ReinvestmentCommittee
  • 2012 CCIM Treasurer
  • 2011 CCIM Newsletter Chairman
  • 2010 CCIM Designation
  • Director on the board of CREW Houston (Commercial Real Estate Women) for 4 years
  • Presidential Award for CREW 2004
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce 2005
  • Board member of the Fort Bend County Women¹s Center 2004-2006
  • Vice Chairman for the Fort Bend Chamber¹s Economic Development Division 2002-2004
  • 2004 graduate of the Fort Bend Leadership Forum
  • Founder of the PACK organization, an electronic news media for the Langham Creek community in Northwest Houston 2005
  • Member of 81st Congressional Leadership Committee for CFISD 2008-2009
  • Founding member of the Cy Fair ISD Leadership 2009-2010
  • Living the Mission Award – Granite company award
  • Nominated for Top 15 Commerical Real Estate Women of the Year – CREW – 2012
  • Rice Historical Society Board 2012, 2013, 2014
  • RBI (Rice University) Board – 2013, 2014

Ms. Benak is a graduate of Baylor University and is married with two children. Andrew, son, is a pitcher with the New York Yankees organizationgraduating from Rice University in December 2013 and Kearby, daughter, is a senior at Eastern University in Philadelphia, PA, graduating in May, 2013.

Granite Properties is a diversified real estate investment and management company that is deploying its own capital and adding to its portfolio of office, industrial, land and retail holdings. Granite’s current portfolio is nearly 11 million square feet in its core cities of Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and Denver. Dueto in-house capitalization and expertise, Granite is able to move quickly to commit and close transactions. For more information, visit

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