Midwest CRE hiring openings

Pace Properties is hiring for three Midwest commercial real-estate roles — project manager, marketing associate, and assistant property manager — on its careers page this week. (paceproperties.com) The openings sit inside a firm that says it serves the greater St. Louis and Kansas City regions, with its headquarters in St. Louis and a Kansas City-area office in Overland Park, Kansas. Pace says it has operated since 1984 and provides property management, project management, leasing, investment sales, and development services. (paceproperties.com) The assistant property manager posting is an operations job, not a brokerage role. The description lists monthly management reports, vendor contracts, rent-roll updates, maintenance dispatch, delinquent-tenant correspondence, and support for sales, acquisition, and financing due diligence. (paceproperties.com) Those duties track the unglamorous work that keeps commercial buildings running after a lease is signed: collecting receivables, coordinating repairs, tracking insurance certificates, and updating property-condition records. Pace says the role reports to its vice president of property management and prefers prior administrative or property-management experience. (paceproperties.com) The hiring comes as Midwest property owners are dealing with uneven market conditions, especially in office. Newmark’s first-quarter 2026 St. Louis office report showed negative 545,870 square feet of net absorption in the quarter and a 15.0% vacancy rate. (nmrk.com) Kansas City has looked steadier in several sectors. Newmark Zimmer reported fourth-quarter 2025 office absorption of 114,978 square feet, the market’s sixth straight positive quarter, while industrial vacancy was 5.0% and retail vacancy was 4.1%. (nmrkzimmer.com) That mix helps explain why firms still need property-level staff even when leasing markets soften. Buildings with existing tenants still need budgets, vendor oversight, maintenance response, reconciliations, and reporting to owners and lenders. (paceproperties.com) Pace is also signaling that its Midwest platform is broader than a single service line. Its site says the company is 100% employee-owned through an employee stock ownership plan and currently lists the three openings alongside its St. Louis-based Avison Young office and industrial affiliate. (paceproperties.com) For job seekers, the signal is simple: even with office vacancy elevated in St. Louis, landlords and operators are still staffing the day-to-day work of running commercial properties across Midwest markets. (nmrk.com)