Brokerage Services
Leasing Representative
Lara Lee LaMendola is a project leasing broker with four years of experience specializing in retail real estate. Her portfolio includes small retail centers, new developments, and large-scale shopping centers exceeding 500,000 square feet. Lara Lee operates both independently and in collaboration with colleagues to consistently deliver strategic leasing solutions tailored to each property’s unique market position.
Originally from Beaumont, Lara Lee spent several years living abroad before relocating to Houston around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her international experience informs a global perspective and a deep appreciation for cultural diversity—qualities that enhance her professional approach and client relationships. Outside of work, Lara Lee is an avid reader, a devoted dog lover, and an enthusiastic traveler who seeks out experiences that connect her with new cuisines and cultures.
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Josh Friedlander
Director of Leasing / Development Partner
Josh Friedlander has been active in the retail real estate industry for over 20 years and joined NewQuest in 2010. He currently serves as Director of Leasing and is a Development Partner.
Josh’s expertise includes retail project leasing, tenant representation, land brokerage, investment sales, and project development. Over the course of his time at NewQuest, he has completed more than 500 transactions, reflecting both his experience and his commitment to delivering results.
He earned a Finance degree from The University of Texas in 2004. Outside of work, Josh enjoys spending time with his family, watching the Astros and Longhorns, and traveling.
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Kevin Sims
Director of Leasing / Senior Vice President
Kevin Sims serves as Senior Vice President and Director of Leasing at NewQuest Properties. With nearly 20 years of experience in commercial real estate, Kevin brings deep expertise in project leasing, tenant representation, land brokerage, and both development and redevelopment.
Throughout his career, Kevin has closed thousands of transactions, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in value for his clients. His deal experience spans a wide range of transaction types, including purchase and sale agreements, build-to-suits, reverse build-to-suits, ground leases, and both anchor and non-anchor leasing for new and redeveloped projects.
Kevin is a frequent recipient of the CoStar Power Broker Award and has been recognized at NewQuest with Top Producer and Highest Number of Transactions honors. His approach is grounded in persistence, transparency, and a commitment to creating win-win outcomes.
He holds a degree from the University of Houston’s Business School and is a licensed real estate agent in the state of Texas. Outside of work, Kevin enjoys tournament fishing, college football, cheering on the Houston Astros, and spending time with his wife Jamie and daughter Avery.
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Andrew Alvis
Senior Vice President / Development Partner
Andrew Alvis brings over 10 years of entrepreneurship and over five years of commercial real estate development and brokerage experience. He began his real estate career with NewQuest Properties, where he excelled in both leasing and tenant representation, brokering over $100 million in closed transactions over the past eight years.
Andrew is currently a Development Partner at NewQuest Properties, playing an integral part in the acquisition and development of nearly one million square feet of retail and mixed-use commercial projects around Houston and Central Texas, totaling well over $150 million in asset value.
Andrew holds a BS in Business Management from Louisiana State University and is a member of ICSC and YNG.
April 20, 2026
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas – NewQuest is starting construction on a multi-tenant building in Stone Hill Town Center in Travis County, settin...
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January 26, 2026
Good Good Thai Kitchen will finish-out an eye-catching end cap in NewQuest’s Friendswood Crossing in the coming weeks, eyeing an ...
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October 13, 2025
HOUSTON – Laying groundwork for 2026 construction and beyond, NewQuest has completed three leases with viral lifestyle brand MINISO f...
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August 4, 2025
HOUSTON – NewQuest has signed the first round of tenants to encircle nearly five acres of welcoming green space in Texas Heritage Mar...
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July 2, 2025
HOUSTON – With NewQuest as its land scout, Chicago-based RSK Real Estate Partners has acquired 9.37 acres to develop a build-to-rent ...
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June 9, 2025
HOUSTON – NewQuest’s Shops at Stone Park will host a Spirit Halloween store for the first time in its 16-year history, signing ...
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May 19, 2025
HOUSTON – In a NewQuest-brokered trade, a local investment group has sold the fully leased Spring Park Village in far north Houston t...
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January 27, 2025
HOUSTON – NewQuest has begun construction on a $400 million mixed-use shopping center dubbed Texas Heritage Marketplace in Waller Cou...
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November 25, 2024
HOUSTON – Construction will ramp up in the coming weeks on a prized restaurant site that’s now ground-leased to P. Terry’...
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September 9, 2024
HOUSTON – With six signed leases in hand, NewQuest is ready to break ground on a 19,000-sf multi-tenant retail building in the Grand ...
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August 14, 2024
HOUSTON – In a true Texas Two-Step, NewQuest has finalized leases in south and northwest Houston for EoS Fitness as part of the brand...
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May 6, 2024
TYLER, Texas – In a true Texas Two-Step, NewQuest has brokered the sale of the Shops at Shiloh in Smith County after pushing occupanc...
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April 1, 2024
HOUSTON – NewQuest and Longhorn Steakhouse have signed a 1.21-acre ground lease for the last pad site fronting Interstate 10 in Chamb...
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November 6, 2023
HOUSTON – Sublime Properties LP has sold Allied Power Group’s manufacturing and maintenance facility near George Bush Intercont...
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August 28, 2023
HOUSTON – Spurred by the success of its first location, Fuhgedaboudit Bagel Company has selected NewQuest Properties’ Spring To...
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August 8, 2023
Arkansas-based 7 Brew is getting ready to open the first of dozens of new locations in the Houston area. The 7 Brew Drive-Thru Coffee f...
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June 21, 2023
HOUSTON – NewQuest Properties has sold the one-year-old Shops at Rock Creek in northwest Houston to a private local investor followin...
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April 20, 2023
HOUSTON – EoS Fitness has selected NewQuest Properties to spearhead the site search and negotiate leases for its brand rollout in Gre...
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April 11, 2023
HOUSTON – New Jersey-based Lightbridge Academy has selected NewQuest Properties’ Shops at Katy Reserve in Fort Bend County as a...
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March 8, 2023
HOUSTON – A Southern California-based hospitality company has sold a nearly vacant 60,000-sf office building along Beltway 8 in Houst...
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January 27, 2023
RICHMOND, Texas – NewQuest Properties has arranged the purchase of Commons at Harvest Green Phase II for a new investor in the Aliana...
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January 10, 2023
KATY, Texas – NewQuest Properties’ Shops at Katy Reserve has won Memorial Hermann Health System’s nod to be the newest pr...
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November 15, 2022
HOUSTON – NewQuest Properties has leased a vacant bank building in the Shoppes at San Felipe to Wild Fork Foods, winning a purveyor o...
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August 30, 2022
HOUSTON – NewQuest Properties and Arkansas-based 7 Brew have finalized a ground lease for one of the few remaining pad sites in Sprin...
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July 28, 2022
HOUSTON – A new franchisee of Colorado-based Teriyaki Madness has selected NewQuest Properties’ Shops at Rock Creek for the fir...
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June 27, 2022
ROSENBERG, Texas – NewQuest Properties has backfilled a prized 30,039-sf anchor spot in Brazos Town Center in Fort Bend County, signi...
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May 16, 2022
HOUSTON – Arizona-based Quick N Clean Express Car Wash is pushing full-throttle on a Texas expansion, locking in four locations in Gr...
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