Charles E. Wiggin
President
For the past thirty-five years Chuck Wiggin has managed the design, development, construction, leasing, sale, acquisition, financing and operation of large commercial real estate projects. He founded Wiggin Properties in 1981 and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer.
Initially a developer of office buildings, Wiggin Properties began offering corporate representation services and property management and leasing services in the mid-1980s and in 1985 its
Tulsa
office was opened. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Wiggin Properties served as manager/leasing agent and ultimately disposition strategist for most of the institutional investors active in
Oklahoma
. Its services expanded in the 1990s to include repositioning, redevelopment, investment, development, and consulting for a wide range of properties and clients. In 1996 the firm became a founding member of the CORE Network. In 2002 a sister company became certified in the New Markets Tax Credit program. In 2008, Colcord Construction, a subsidiary company, was formed.
Wiggin began his business career with Spaulding and Slye in 1973 as a project manager in its home office in
Boston
. As Senior Vice President of Development, he managed the firm’s development activities in suburban
Boston
and later, as Southwest Regional Manager, its development, construction, brokerage and management activities in
Oklahoma City
.
Wiggin was founder of
Oklahoma City
’s Commercial Real Estate Council and Chapter President of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. He is a founding sponsor of the Oklahoma Council of the Urban Land Institute, and an alumnus of Leadership Oklahoma City and Leadership Oklahoma.
A Director of Union Bank, Advanced Instruments, Inc., the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Civic Center Foundation, and the Friends of the Oklahoma History Center., Wiggin is active in numerous other civic and cultural organizations. Additionally, he is
Oklahoma
’s Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany.
A graduate of
Harvard
College
, Wiggin has an MBA from
Harvard
Business
School
and a JD from
Harvard
Law
School
.
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