Lance Gilliam,  Partner/Managing Director

Phone: 713.773.5551 | Email: lance.gilliam@moodyrambin.com



Lance Gilliam, SCSM, SCLS
Managing Director

Lance has spent most of his career focused on retail user transactions, including tenant representation and project development. He has represented national, regional and local restaurateurs and retailers throughout a broad market area including Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and most of the southeastern and western United States.

Lance´s clients include and have included regional | national firms such as Office Depot, Bally Total Fitness, Circuit City, Food Lion, Frost Bank, H-E-B, the J.C. Penney Co., Kroger Co., Michaels, PetsMart, Price Club, Regal Entertainment | Edwards Theatres, Sun & Ski Sports, The Sports Authority and Washington Mutual.

He has also represents or has represented Houston local restaurateurs including Charles Clark & Grant Cooper (ibiza and catalan) Jason Gould & Scott Tycer (Aries, Gravitas), Legacy Restaurants (Antone´s & Original Ninfa´s), Monica Pope (t´afia and Beavers) and Philippe Schmit.

With his partner Ed James, Lance has shared responsibility for leasing a numerous significant retail projects in Houston, Texas. Successes include Town & Country Village, one of the country´s first lifestyle shopping centers, and Copperwood Village, The Shops at Bella Terra, The Shops at Riverstone and Silverlake Village —- all community shopping centers closely associated with master planned communities. Lance has played on active role in the redevelopment and/or disposition of the former Pin Oak Stables, Town & Country Square, a former Incredible Universe, a former Garden Ridge Pottery and retail developments at the intersections of Harrisburg at Wayside and Montrose at Westheimer.

Projects leased by Lance have included Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, Cinemark, Garden Ridge Pottery, Home Depot, Incredible Universe, Lowe´s, Kohl´s, Kroger, Marshalls, Randall´s, Ross Stores, Target, Walgreens and Walmart.

Lance is a managing director and shareholder in both Moody Rambin Interests´ Retail Properties Division and its parent company. He is also a member of the parent company´s executive committee.

Lance is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) having served both as a faculty member and as the Dean of the ICSC University´s School of Open-Air Center Development. He has earned both the Senior Certified Shopping Center Manager (SCSM) and Senior Certified Leasing Specialist (SCLS) designations. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and its Houston Advisory Services Committee. For the ULI Houston District Council, Lance has served as a retail market expert, panelist, speaker and mentor to and for various committees and sponsored projects.

Lance was formerly Executive Vice President of Grubb & Ellis Retail Properties Division in Houston, Texas. He was the company´s top-producing retail broker nationally for the four years preceding his departing with Ed James to form Moody Rambin Interests´ Retail Properties Division. He was also a member of Grubb & Ellis´ National Retail Tenant Services Group. During his tenure at Grubb & Ellis, Lance earned the Senior Marketing Consultant (SMC) designation and was named to the Henry S. Miller / Grubb & Ellis Chairman´s Council.

Lance currently serves as the president — elect and vice president — contributed income of The Children´s Museum of Houston. In that capacity, he serves on the museum´s board of directors and executive committee. With his good friend, Julie Alexander, Lance co-chaired the museum´s building committee. Together, they lead the museum´s doubling in size. This expansion was part of a $35 million capital campaign that allowed the museum to better serve almost 1,000,000 visitors —- children, their parents, their caretakers and their teachers —- each year.

He also serves a founding board member of Harris County Public Improvement District No. 10b | the Five Corners Improvements District.

Lance has previously served as a member of the vestry and building committee member of St. Martin´s Episcopal Church. He also has served as a board member of the East End Progress Association and Urban League of Houston.

In 1977, Lance earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate with Honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He also attended Southern Methodist´s graduate program in Real Estate and Regional Science.

Lance is a native Texan. He and his family have lived in Houston for more than forty-five years. He is married to Jennifer Pardoe Gilliam. They have a daughter, Emma (8), and Lance has two grown sons, Lance (25) and Matthew (23). Lance and his family are parishioners at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church.