Brian Tapp

Brian Tapp, CCIM, SIOR, is a First President at CBRE's Knoxville office. Brian brings over sixteen years of real estate experience in industrial sales and leasing, land assemblage for development, tenant representation, corporate real estate services, and bank "other real estate owned" (OREO) dispositions. Brian has earned numerous prestigious commercial real estate awards, including East TN CCIM/Knoxville Business Journal's "Broker of the Year" award (2011 & 2012) and East TN CCIM/Knoxville Business Journal's "Deal of the Year" award in 2011 for his work in the disposition of Belle Island Village, known as "The Island in Pigeon Forge", a 280,000 sf festival themed development in Pigeon Forge, TN for Regions Bank. He won the "Deal of the Year" again in 2016 for his work on the acquisition of 1.9 acres assemblage on Cumberland Avenue at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Campus for Collegiate Development Group (CDG). CDG developed and built a $45 million dollar, 140 unit, 268,254 sf mixed-use community (Student housing and retail space). Before beginning his practice in commercial real estate, Brian worked as a legislative aide to Congressman Van Hilleary and Congressman J. Randy Forbes in Washington, D.C.