In this podcast episode, we spoke with Bryce Custer, SIOR, CCIM, a scientist by background and real estate investor that entered the brokerage business in 2009 and hung his license with NAI Spring in Canton, OH. Fast forward to the present, and Bryce still works in the Ohio market and is affiliated with NAI Spring there, yet also, he was just made Vice President of Energy Services with Pittsburgh-based NAI Burns Scalo to run his energy-focused, commercial real estate practice in West Virginia and a portion of Southern Pennsylvania.
In this podcast episode, we spoke with Bryce Custer, SIOR, CCIM, a scientist by background and real estate investor that entered the brokerage business in 2009 and hung his license with NAI Spring in Canton, OH.
Fast forward to the present, and Bryce still works in the Ohio market and is affiliated with NAI Spring there, yet also, he was just made Vice President of Energy Services with Pittsburgh-based NAI Burns Scalo to run his energy-focused, commercial real estate practice in West Virginia and a portion of Southern Pennsylvania.
Bryce works in the energy-rich Marcellus and Utica shale oil fields -- an area known as the Ohio River Corridor. The region is blessed with rail and river transportation services, and a world-class energy infrastructure because of its history of coal production and steel-making. The geography and natural resources created the basis for what has always been a manufacturing hub of the U.S., yet is fast-becoming the biggest energy-producing pocket of the U.S., in part because it is a one-day drive to 70% of the U.S. population.
Listen to Custer describe his use of technical skills and knowledge of chemistry, electrical generation, power, polymers, plastics etc., and even SMRs, or Small Modular (Nuclear) Reactors, and how these elements are driving demand for land and real estate facilities unlike ever before.
His comments reinforce the notion that business likes certainty, and Custer is looking forward to both the upcoming presidential election to be over, and for 2025. Backed by the commitment and resources of NAI Burns Scalo, he thinks it will be a very good year.