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Sectors

We serve the people who build, defend, finance, educate, govern, and heal America.

Each sector below has real estate requirements that generic brokerage misses. This is where we live.

01 / Defense Technology

You are shipping to DoD. Your real estate should keep up.

From a founding team with a prototype to a production campus with a flight line, defense tech grows in stages that punish the wrong lease.

  • Stage-matched space. Office and lab today, light assembly next year, rate production after the program of record. Use clauses, expansion rights, and term structures built for that arc.
  • Security pathways. Facility clearance eligibility, CMMC posture, visitor control, and SCIF feasibility evaluated before you commit, not after.
  • Power and test infrastructure. Capacity, upgrade timelines, outdoor test areas, and zoning that tolerates what you actually do.
  • Proximity that wins programs. Sites near customers, primes, ranges, and cleared-talent pools across the national security geography.
  • Capital-efficient structures. LC burndowns and guarantee alternatives that respect your runway, with build-to-suit and sale-leaseback paths when the balance sheet is ready.

Discuss a defense tech requirement

02 / Financial Services

The firms moving capital into the builder economy.

Hedge funds, private equity, private credit, and the investors behind defense and industrial growth. Your space is a recruiting weapon and a statement of intent.

  • Headquarters strategy. Buildings, floors, and views that win the talent war in New York and every major financial center.
  • Infrastructure that trades. Power redundancy, connectivity diversity, and continuity planning where uptime is alpha.
  • Speed and discretion. Off-market intelligence and quiet processes for firms that move before the market hears about it.
  • Portfolio-side advisory. Real estate diligence and execution support for your portfolio companies as they scale into plants and offices.

Discuss a financial services requirement

03 / Federal Agencies

The federal practice has its own page. It earned it.

Prime contractor on the VA National Broker Contract. $273M+ in awarded lease value. Five facilities delivered across five states, with 18 active engagements nationwide.

Enter the federal practice

For agencies

Full lease acquisition lifecycle support: market surveys, solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, and award documentation, executed on contract.

For the ecosystem

Developers and lessors pursuing federal leases, and contractors who need space near the mission, get the same process fluency from the other side of the table.

04 / Cybersecurity

Space for the people who protect the network.

Cyber firms scale headcount faster than floor plans and carry security requirements most landlords have never heard of.

  • Talent geography first. Cleared-talent corridors and university pipelines drive the shortlist, then the buildings compete.
  • Secure space, real standards. SCIF and secure room feasibility, access control, and infrastructure separation assessed during diligence.
  • Leases that flex. Expansion options, contraction rights, and term structures for firms that might double headcount in eighteen months.
  • HQ vs. distributed math. Honest modeling of hub-and-spoke against a single flagship, including the recruiting effect of each.

Discuss a cyber requirement

05 / Advanced Manufacturing & Makers

From prototype to production without the real estate stall.

The maker economy needs more than desks. It needs benches, bays, docks, power, and room to scale the moment demand says go.

  • The physical spec, underwritten. Clear height, floor load, bay spacing, crane capacity, and dock counts scored against your process flow.
  • Power, first question asked. Available capacity, substation distance, utility queue reality, and what it costs to bring more.
  • Labor sheds that hire. Wage data, skills density, and commute analysis across competing markets before you pick one.
  • Incentives that close gaps. Job and capital investment programs negotiated across states, with clawbacks you can live with.
  • Exit and expansion built in. Disposition strategy for the space you outgrow and optioned paths into the space you will need.

Discuss a manufacturing requirement

06 / VA & Healthcare

Where we heal matters most of all.

Clinics shape outcomes for the people inside them. We have delivered them for the Department of Veterans Affairs from Texas to Oregon.

  • Clinical program to building spec. Translating care models into space programs, parking ratios, and site requirements that survive design.
  • Federal healthcare delivery. Outpatient clinics, behavioral health, and resource centers executed through the VA acquisition process.
  • Private operators too. Ambulatory, specialty, and multi-site outpatient networks get the same site discipline on the commercial side.
  • Community integration. Sites where patients actually are: transit, visibility, co-located services, and the labor pool to staff the building.

See the delivered VA portfolio

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