Danet Linares knows how to manage a trophy tower. The vice president of marketing and leasing for Wealth Capital Management served as the force behind the jump in occupancy in Miami's Bank of America Tower at International Place from 73 percent in 2004 to a building-high 97 percent last year, garnering the property the Miami chapter of BOMA International's 2007 Building of the Year award for the 500,000- to 1 million-square-foot office category. During 2007, she secured 177,000 square feet of leases for the 600,000-square-foot building, including Downtown Miami's largest lease for the year, law firm Carlton Fields' early 11-year extension and expansion totaling 76,000 square feet.

Linares received her degree from St. John's University and then worked for Shorenstein Realty Services L.P., Hines and CB Richard Ellis Inc., for which she served as the leasing broker for Miami's 1.3 million-square-foot Wachovia Financial Center trophy building. She joined Wealth Capital, formerly Blue Capital Management, in 2003.

Through all these assignments, commercial real estate continues to excite Linares. "It's always changing," she said. "You never know where a deal is going to go." Foram Group Inc. recently hired her to oversee leasing for Brickell Financial Centre, a 1.5 million-square-foot complex now being developed. The project marks the culmination of a career still on the rise. "She has great communication skills (and) a sense of humor and delivers info well on both sides," said CresaPartners L.L.C. vice chairman & founding partner Barbara Liberatore Black, who has known the broker for 15 years. If you are working on a deal, "you'll get it done with her."