Robert co-founded Hazel Street Capital in 2024 after scaling a prior platform to over $250M in AUM through institutional joint ventures with blue-chip capital partners. He led acquisitions, development, and capital markets across that platform.
On-Demand Development Expertise
From diligence through delivery, we provide the development capabilities investors, owners, and developers need, without the overhead.
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Development rewards experience. Staffing that experience is costly. If development is not your primary business, maintaining that overhead is unsustainable. Our principals have developed a combined 8MM square feet of industrial real estate across the Sunbelt and Midwest.
Leverage our experience, relationships, and systems to execute projects on time and on budget. We offer bespoke services on a flexible scope. We can handle a project from identification to close-out, or anything in between.
Leadership Team
James co-founded Hazel Street Capital in 2024 after overseeing the development of 5M SF and $75M in capital improvements across a 17M SF industrial portfolio at a national institutional sponsor.
Together they have grown Hazel Street to $217M in AUM and 1.29M SF under development across Florida, the Southeast, and the Midwest.
A complete development firm. Available as a service.
We engage across the full development lifecycle. Each service is available standalone or as part of an integrated mandate.
Pre-Acquisition & Diligence
Underwriting support, site feasibility, entitlement risk assessment, environmental review, infrastructure capacity analysis, and capital strategy from LOI through close. Engaged most often by investors evaluating a transaction without an in-house development team.
Entitlements & Pre-Development
Land use, rezoning, platting, site plan approval, environmental permitting, traffic and utility coordination, and stakeholder management through the full pre-construction sequence. Where most development risk lives. Where most of our scar tissue is.
Development Management
End-to-end execution from design through delivery. Architect and engineer selection, GC procurement, schedule and budget management, change order discipline, draw administration, and reporting to capital partners.
Owner's Representation
Acting on behalf of the owner with general contractors, design teams, and consultants. Aligned exclusively with the owner's economic interest. No fee participation with vendors. No conflicts.
Capital Markets & Asset Positioning
Construction and permanent debt placement, equity structuring, lease-up strategy, broker selection, and disposition planning. We understand how buyers underwrite because we are buyers.
Three ways to work with us.
Most engagements begin with a scoped conversation. We do not require a mandate to start.
Diligence, feasibility, second-set-of-eyes.
For investors evaluating a transaction or feasibility question. Diligence support, entitlement risk assessment, capital strategy review, or second-set-of-eyes work. Fixed-fee or hourly.
Typical engagement: two to eight weeks.
Single-asset development management.
Single-asset development management or owner's representation. Engaged through delivery or stabilization. Monthly retainer plus delivery-based incentive.
Typical engagement: eighteen to thirty-six months.
Outsourced development arm.
Multi-project mandate for investors or family offices building a portfolio without an internal development team. Functions as an outsourced development arm. Retainer plus performance.
Typical engagement: ongoing.
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