Delivering exceptional risk-adjusted returns for our investors across each step of the value chain.
Columnar leverages unique knowledge advantages and synergies across its verticals to create opportunities from raw land up to large, complex vertical projects. Through its patient and highly-deliberate approach, Columnar is able to create long-term vision for a site and move land through processes as cycles unfold. With a permanent capital base and direct experience across multiple cycles, Columnar is able to be contrarian and capitalize on outsized, idiosyncratic opportunities.
Land development is a local endeavor. Columnar drives growth through investment in local talent rather than acquisition from afar. Our commitment to build on the knowledge, abilities, and connections of our team members within target markets allows us to uncover unique opportunities.
We understand that each opportunity calls for an established land professional versed in the area’s entitlement and broader development environment, both at municipal and regional levels. By gathering teams of engineers, land planners, attorneys, and environmental consultants with hard-earned local experience, we efficiently source, plan, and execute successful projects.
Columnar is led by a team that has persevered through a combined eight real estate cycles.
We understand the perils of debt and the value in prioritizing capital preservation over rapid growth. With significant family investment and a mindset of “protect, then grow,” we take the long view, positioning each project to weather the most severe downturn, and sometimes choose to remain on the sidelines while competitors press aggressively forward, or proceed with optimism while others are fearful.
Columnar focuses on acquisitions and developments in high-growth regions with strong, sustainable economies.
Columnar focuses its efforts within MSAs that exhibit favorable population, employment, and wage growth, healthy median incomes, and other signals of commercial and housing demand. We specifically gravitate to areas with limited remaining developable land, challenging entitlement environments, and difficult physical conditions which typically lead to opportunities where our competitive advantages and uncommon skill allow us to create the most value.
Columnar Land
Executing entitlements & approvals, developing stakeholder trust, and creating opportunity from undeveloped land banks.
Columnar Communities
Shepherding entitled land through every step to becoming finished lots ready for delivery of high-quality housing.
Columnar Commercial
Exceptional vertical developments that capture highest & best use and spark growth in the neighborhoods which they serve.