Meet Our Team
Craig Castor
Co-Founder
Craig Castor is a native of Orlando and a veteran business professional with over 40 years of combined experience in construction, insurance, and risk management and commercial real estate industries. Craig has been in commercial real estate for 15 years and specializes in full-service occupier representation, and developing real estate strategies for his clients including efficient space use, portfolio management, site selection, negotiating leases, aggressively marketing subleases, relocations, and space consolidations. Craig’s sole focus is developing real estate solutions that will increase profitability and create value for his clients.
Prior to joining the corporate real estate industry, he had over twenty combined years of experience in commercial construction, business insurance with risk management. After working his way through college, Craig received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing with a minor in Economics from Florida State University in 1982.
Sarah Castor
Co-Founder
Sarah is co-founder of Strictly Commercial, Inc., established in 1989, which became WorkLife|CRE in 2023. Sarah focuses on office and industrial tenants and her extensive market knowledge has resulted in ensuring strong market deals whether in a tenant’s or landlord’s market. Prior to founding Strictly Commercial, Sarah worked on the landlord’s behalf, but quickly realized that tenants need and deserve strong, thorough representation to level the playing field for them.
Gary Klein
Sr. Vice President,
Head of PM Services
As Senior VP and Head of Project Management Services, Gary Klein brings a wealth of knowledge and depth of experience to our Project Management Team. He has over 45 years of experience as a commercial contractor specializing in complex tenant improvement and build-to-suit projects. Gary’s experience and business acumen has resulted in an extensive resume of successful, quality projects done on time and within budget.
Owning several commercial contracting companies, Gary has managed a diversity of projects including medical, hospitals, educational, religious, restaurants, hospitality, aviation, clean rooms, data centers, defense, and industrial buildings. During his career, Gary has developed and maintained many long-standing relationships with design and engineering firms, building and fire officials, and top-tier general contractors and sub-contractors throughout Florida, which has proven to be extremely advantageous in design oversight, value-engineering, expediting permitting processes, and mitigating job site inspections.
Joanna Ford
Office Manager,
Administrative Assistant
Joanna Ford is the passionate and experienced Administrative Assistant/Office Manager for Worklife|CRE. She has been assisting all levels of management for more than 20 years. With her extensive background in administrative support and customer care, she maintains the workflow of the office by ensuring that all day-to-day systems are in place and running smoothly.
Joanna and her husband have lived in the great Orlando area since 1998. They have two grown children, love the beach, and are diehard University of Central Florida football fans.
About Us
Providing Corporate Real Estate Advisory Services to buyers and tenants throughout Florida since 1989.
WorkLife|CRE specializes in overcoming seemingly impossible hurdles that often present themselves in the leasing process.
WorkLife|CRE brand was created in 2023 by a co-founder of Strictly Commercial, Inc. that was established in 1989, working exclusively on behalf of the end user of space. We advise commercial buyers and tenants exclusively – no landlords, no developers – so we can be completely objective and conflict-free. By concentrating single-mindedly on tenant issues, we gain both the perspective and the experience to level the playing field in landlord-tenant relations. Every commercial real estate transaction should take into account business challenges that need to be addressed. At WorkLife|CRE, our approach is to reach a thorough understanding of those challenges before we investigate solutions, streamlining the approach to only considering workable solutions.
Wherever you are in the real estate life cycle, whatever the size of your transaction or project, our tenant advisors will address your strategic needs with best practices we have developed and refined from our extensive experience in a wide range of industries.
Our three Core Services: Strategic Planning, Transaction Management, and Project Management, are all designed to help your company in a disciplined, tenant-focused manner. These core services are truly integrated. Our team collaborates throughout all phases of the assignment to best facilitate a more than favorable outcome for our clients.
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When you partner with WorkLife|CRE advisors, our strategic planning process can help you define your business goals and real estate needs, analyze your current situation in the context of those goals, and then formulate a real estate strategy around them. The sooner you engage our services in this phase, the better as you, the tenant, benefit from the leverage of time.
Our transaction specialists then utilize the strategic plan to help you navigate the myriad complexities that are part of any real estate transaction. We have developed standardized best practices to analyze your space needs, manage the space selection process, and weigh the many variables against the business goals you have defined.
Whatever the real estate project being planned: lease or purchase, industrial, manufacturing, medical, office, retail or high-tech space, integrating project management will manage the planning, design and budget during the construction and occupancy processes.
Our mission is to provide customized solutions exclusively for tenants that align their real estate with their business plans, delivering maximum cost savings and exceeding expectations. Our vision is to be service-oriented rather than transaction-oriented with advisors who are client-focused, not deal-focused.
Our team believes in creating lasting relationships based on trust. We cultivate those relationships by taking amazing care of the people behind the companies, nonprofits, and municipalities that make our communities wonderful places to live, play, and do business.
Above all, the foundation of our company are our core values, which guide everything we do: faith in God, integrity, and love of country. Each member of WorkLife|CRE lives and breathes these values every day, as they strive to deliver excellence, and to always “Do the Right Thing” for our clients, our company and our community. We will always do what is right for the client’s best interest and put that interest before our own. We treat our clients and each other with respect, dignity, and fairness in all matters. Character matters.
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