Gerald P. Norton
Senior Vice President

Bringing more than 19 years of commercial real estate experience to the company, Mr. Norton joined Binswanger in 2001 as Senior Vice President. Chiefly responsible for advisory and industrial brokerage, Mr. Norton provides a full range of real estate services in the Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin markets.

Before joining Binswanger, Mr. Norton was a principal of Brookshire Commercial, where he provided local and national full service real estate representation for a wide range of clients. Prior to establishing Brookshire Commercial, he was a Senior Consultant with United Properties, where his outstanding performance warranted him the Off Shore Club award for top production for five consecutive years and distinction by CityBusiness as one of the top commercial real estate brokers in Minnesota. Mr. Norton's formidable career in commercial real estate includes the sale and leasing of several million square feet on behalf of clients such as Unilever, Pepsi Bottling Group, Fingerhut, Guidant, Bridgestone, Deere & Company, C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., Gehl Company, Fiskars, Ecolab and H.B. Fuller.

Mr. Norton is an honors graduate of Bethel College where he earned a B.A. in Business Administration. He is an active member of Rotary International, NAIOP and the Organization of Commercial Realtors (OCR).