John Barton

John Barton serves as President of the Northwood Office platform. He is focused on further enhancing Northwood’s office leasing and operations, integrating more mixed uses into Ballantyne, and growing Northwood’s management platform in other markets.

Most recently, Mr. Barton served as managing director and co-head of HFF’s Office Investment Advisory Group in Atlanta, where he handled sales of office buildings in the Southeast. Before joining HFF, Mr. Barton served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Parkway Properties, where he was responsible for the company’s Atlanta and Philadelphia markets. During his 16-year career at Parkway, he was directly involved in all aspects of asset management, including leasing, operations and joint ventures in multiple Sunbelt and Mid-Atlantic markets. Mr. Barton is a magna cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also earned his J.D. from Washington and Lee School of Law.