Gator100 Nominees

01-21-2021 11:50

Emeri Schweigert

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At Foundry Commercial, our mission is to build a generational real estate company centered on people, purpose, and performance. We are driven by relationships and the passion to build something different. Foundry is a full-service commercial real estate services and investment company operating across the office, industrial, retail, multi-family, healthcare, religious, and non-profit asset classes and clients. Foundry is sustained by 2,000 associates operating from 13 markets, providing leasing and management on more that 62 million square feet and over 3,000 seniors housing units, executing over $1.6 billion in leasing, tenant rep, and investment sale transactions annually. Foundry’s development and investment platform is fully integrated with its services business and is currently invested in over $3.5 billion in joint ventures with many of the best-known institutional investors in the country and currently has over $1 billion in active ground-up developments across all our markets. Foundry recently launched an Investment Management platform targeting institutional and accredited individual investors. This platform was created to enhance value for Foundry’s investor clients, customers, associates, and communities.

Foundry is committed to building a commercial real estate company unlike anything else in the country. Our focus has always been on creating a collaborative and enthusiastic workplace, where associates can be unleashed to operate in an open and empowering environment built without silos. At Foundry, entrepreneurial-minded associates are emboldened with the autonomy to draw outside the lines, fostering relationships with clients who value exceptional creativity. Foundry's team is regional in scale to provide a strong infrastructure of support services, while also having the local expertise to excel in an array of commercial real estate services.

At the end of 2021, Foundry acquired location analysis and incentives advisory firm, Maxis Advisors. In June 2022, Foundry’s healthcare and seniors housing platform more than doubled in size when the company acquired the Spring Arbor Senior Living collection of assisted living and memory care communities. The portfolio now operates 54 communities in 12 states. Foundry has also added five new verticals. From Real Estate Solutions to user development services, from debt and structured finance to investment advisory, and from social media marketing services to land advisory, Foundry continues to grow into numerous verticals and niches.

Our team works hard, and we have a lot of fun along the way. As an operator, we’re often responsible for putting the deals together, from sourcing to strategy to capitalization to execution, and everything in between. There’s a lot of responsibility that comes with that role, but it's incredibly rewarding. Foundry has built a track record as one of the most active operators in the country working with some of the best investment partners in the business.

At Foundry Commercial, we prioritize relationships with people. We believe taking the time to better understand someone’s background, their motivations, and their unique perspective leads to a clearer picture about how we can best serve our associates, clients, vendors, partners, and tenants.

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