Jim Cronin's Profile

James Cronin is the owner of Hawk Distribution Services. James Cronin established Hawk Distribution Services in 1987 to provide professional real estate brokerage services that would exclusively specialize in the industrial real estate niche of temperature controlled real estate. Jim has now listed more cold storage warehouses than any other real estate broker has ever listed for sale or for lease Jim Cronin foresaw the need to provide real estate brokerage services to assist the owner, as well as the officers of companies in the food processing and food distribution industry whose products and processes require freezer or cooler temperatures within their buildings. Originally working with cooler and freezer warehouse buildings in the greater metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri area, Jim learned first hand the real estate brokerage business, as well as the inner-active complexities of freezer and cooler buildings and the problems those complexities present in pursuing the completion of a real estate transaction. St. Louis provided for an established and expanding client base. Hawk continues to expand both in size and geographically by being asked to provide existing facility searches, real estate consulting, marketing services as well as other real estate activities throughout the Midwest region of the United States and also nationally. Hawk has established a permanent office and real estate brokerage operations in the greater metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri area. The Kansas City, Missouri office also exclusively provides temperature controlled real estate brokerage services for Hawk's existing and expanding client base.

Jim Cronin holds multiple Real Estate Broker licenses. Establishing and maintaining those brokers licenses has required more than 1,200 dedicated hours of real estate school to acquire and then ongoing continuing education to maintain those Real Estate Broker licenses. Jim has had some of the top test scorers in the ethics portion of the biannual written test examination required to maintain his Real Estate Broker’s license for the state of Illinois. Jim is a graduate of Hastings College, which is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. Graduating with 3 majors in Business Administration, Psychology and Economics. Additionally, he held the position of Vice President of the St. Louis, Missouri chapter of the American Marketing Association for 8 years.

Jim Cronin has developed a high level of expertise as a real estate broker with several different types of temperature controlled facilities. Those buildings included facilities owned and operated by Public Refrigerated Cold Storage Companies and the marketing management and leasing of multi-tenant temperature controlled facilities. These 2 types of buildings require specialized brokerage knowledge and also specialized marketing skills. Additionally, a 100,000 square foot temperature controlled facility with freezer and cooler warehouse space that was constructed 25 years ago and then has been upgraded and expanded have been highly successful projects.

Jim enjoys interacting with the people that he meets and all the places that it takes him in practicing his chosen profession as a real estate broker of temperature controlled facilities.