Like a good neighbor, State Farm gets you top honor at this year’s Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtor’s Million Dollar Club Awards at the Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead. (What, you thought returning your shovel was the best a neighbor could do?)

The Dynamic Duo: CBRE’s John Shlesinger and Sam Holmes (with JLL’s Gregg Metcalf) once again took the coveted Million Dollar Club award for office tenant rep. They produced $104M in deals, including State Farm in Dunwoody. Other top category winners included:

 

 

• SRS Real Estate Partners’ Ray Uttenhove (more than $45M produced) for retail.

 

 

• Batson-Cook Realty’s Norm Richie ($67M produced) in the land category.

 

 

• Prologis’ Brian Cardoza ($107M) in the industrial landlord category.

 

 

• CBRE’s Tony Kepano ($135M) in the industrial tenant category.

 

 

• CBRE’s Richard Nash ($66M) in the office landlord category.

 

 

• JLL’s Derrick Bloom and David Gutting (more than $500M produced) in investment sales.

 

 

The State Farm effect also reached the Alvin B. Cates award. The winners got it for the huge insurance company deal at 64 and 66 Perimeter Center east and Electa’s HQ to The Terraces. Here’s Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Bert Sanders and Cushman & Wakefield’s Caroline Nolen, Andy Sumlin and Aileen Almassy (Lisa Dunavin also won but isn’t pictured). Also making it into the shot: NGKF’s Dave Watson, left, and JLL’s Gregg Metcalf.

Two Atlanta CRE legends, Wilson Hull and Neal’s Bruce Wilson (who earned the Diamond Phoenix Award for 45 years in the Million Dollar Club) and Rooker’s CEO John Rooker. We asked John whether he’d go spec in today’s industrial market, and he said: “We may have one under way right now.” He declined to elaborate, other than to say there’s real opportunity to develop a smaller building—around 200k SF.

We nearly lost life and limb to bring you this intel: This is the NCAA bracket of CBRE’s Ryan Blackburn. He’s swapping notes with Stream Realty’s Nicolai Schwarzkopf and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s JR Wright. His pick: Louisville.

HITT Contracting’s Shaw Overstreet, Choate Construction’s Christian Davis (just hired as a pre-construction manager), and JLL’s Amy Sessions. Shaw tells us HITT is completing the interior renovations of Morris Manning & Martin’s office on its renewal at Atlanta Financial Center. He says interior work “looks strong in Q3 and Q4.”

Lavista Associates’ Ed O’Connor and Wheeler/Brand’s Lara Bargar (hitting the Million Dollar Club this year with $14M in production) and Shea Bierster. Wheeler/Brand recently secured discount grocer Aldi in the former Ace Hardware space at North Bridges Shopping Center in Johns Creek. Hopefully they left some hardware behind to help reach the upper shelf kumquats.