Feldman Equities announced today that industry veteran Christopher Ross has joined its team to help lead the expansion of its commercial real estate portfolio.

Chris joins Feldman Equities as a Senior Analyst and will prospect all new acquisitions. Chris will lead due diligence and perform financial analysis for development projects, including the company’s upcoming mixed-use Riverwalk development.

Prior to joining Feldman Equities, Chris spent ten years with MetLife’s Real Estate Investments office in Tampa working in its property acquisition and asset management group. Most recently he served as Director of Acquisitions for Cantor Fund Management. With an eye towards an ever-expanding real estate portfolio, this is Feldman Equities’ fifth hire in recent months.

The company most recently acquired Tampa’s Park Tower, a 36-story, 475,000 square foot office building which will undergo a substantial renovation this year. Park Tower rounds out a 1.3 million square foot office building portfolio owned and under development by joint venture partners Feldman Equities and Tower Realty Partners.

About Feldman Equities, LLC

Feldman Equities, LLC is the modern business entity that encompasses a century of success in commercial real estate development and ownership throughout the United States. Feldman Equities and its joint venture partners own or manage over four million square feet of Florida office space. Over the past 30 years, Feldman Equities has developed or acquired over eleven million square feet of office and retail properties with an aggregate value in excess of $3 billion.

Feldman Equities is a standout, recognized for its trademark, hands-on approach to turning around distressed assets. Feldman Equities is marshaled by its president and CEO, Larry Feldman.

Today, Feldman Equities is embarked upon an aggressive program to acquire underperforming office buildings in the greater Tampa Bay market. Typical candidates for acquisition are office buildings of over 100,000 square feet.

In addition to acquisitions, Feldman Equities is building from the ground up. In 2015, the company and its affiliates acquired the last piece of developable waterfront in the core of downtown Tampa. Feldman and his partners will develop a 53-story office and luxury residential building along Tampa’s Riverwalk. The tower will become the tallest building on the West Coast of Florida and is expected to transform the Tampa skyline.

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