Miami, Florida · Established 1977
Sawgrass Beach invests across cash-flowing real estate with value-add opportunity, early stage companies, and digital asset infrastructure. We invest our own capital, alongside operators we know.
The family's electronics distribution business was founded in Miami in 1977 and over the next four decades grew into a nationwide operation.
Sawgrass Beach, L.P. was formed in 2011 as the capital allocation arm of that business. When the company was sold in 2016, the partnership became the primary investment vehicle for the family's assets.
That history is the whole reason we invest the way we do. We spent decades on the operating side of a low-margin, high-volume business, which is a good education in cash flow, working capital, and the difference between a good story and a good business.
“We spent decades on the operating side of a low-margin, high-volume business. That is still how we underwrite.”
The family's electronics distribution business is founded in Miami.
Sawgrass Beach, L.P. formed as the capital allocation arm of the business.
The distribution business is sold. The partnership becomes the family's primary investment vehicle.
Three generations allocating across real estate, public securities, venture, and digital assets.
States with real estate investments
In real estate we invest in cash-flowing properties with value-add opportunity, working with general partners around the country on a deal-by-deal basis rather than through blind pools. We have invested across Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, including ground-up hospitality development.
We also run a concentrated book of public securities, which is where the family has invested longest. It is the same discipline as the private work: a small number of names, held for years, bought when the operating business is understood better than the tape suggests.
In companies, our first investments were businesses we could plug directly into the family business's distribution network. We have since moved toward asset-light platforms in underserved markets, and more recently into digital asset infrastructure and the payment rails being built for autonomous software.
Retail, office, light industrial, multifamily and hospitality. Equity, mezzanine debt, and first lien positions, always alongside a sponsor with a track record in that submarket.
Asset-light platforms in overlooked markets, from marketplaces to space infrastructure to supersonic aviation.
A concentrated, long-held book of listed equities, run in-house.
Protocols, tokenization, onchain credit, and the agentic payment rails now being built on top of stablecoins.
The full record runs to more than thirty investments across real estate, credit, funds, and early stage companies.
Eight light industrial buildings totaling 518,300 SF across three business parks on the I-77 corridor. Tenants include American Red Cross, Rubbermaid, Samsung and Servpro.
The first efficient supersonic airliner since the Concorde's retirement, targeting Mach 2.2 and a 4,250 nautical mile range. Awarded a U.S. Air Force contract for Supersonic Executive Transport.
Space infrastructure as a service. Loft delivers customer data missions to orbit on a standard microsatellite bus, handling every mission element so customers focus on the data.
A Best Buy anchored center in Jacksonville's affluent Southside submarket, between the 1.275M SF Gramercy Woods office park and Simon's 1.1M SF Avenues Mall. Fully occupied at acquisition with outparcel upside.
A 90-guestroom hotel ten minutes from the beach in a market with strong tourism and employment trends. Developed 1997, renovated 2012.
A value-add center in Charleston's premier commercial corridor with Target and Ross co-tenancy, less than a mile from Northwoods Mall and 45,000+ vehicles per day.
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| Area | Investment | Location / sector | Structure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate | FXE Business Center · Executive office center beside an executive airportwith Adler Group | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | River Exchange · Grocery-anchored shopping centerwith Dragonfly Investments | Lawrenceville, GA | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | Farmington Hills Multifamily · 400+ unit value-add apartment communitywith Pepper Pike | Farmington Hills, MI | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | The Branch at Medical Center · 400+ unit garden-style apartment communitywith Trinity Private Equity Group | San Antonio, TX | Mezzanine debt | Realized |
| Real estate | Park Terrace · Garden-style community next to a university campuswith 1011 East Orange | Tempe, AZ | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | Southwest Tech Park · Industrial tech and office buildingswith Ameritus Real Estate | Minneapolis, MN | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | Dartmouth Industrial/Flex · Single-tenant industrial and flex buildingwith JB Capital Management | Dartmouth, MA | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | Shoppes of South Semoran · Neighborhood retail centerwith Core Investment Properties | Orlando, FL | Equity | Realized |
| Real estate | Westshore Class A Office · Class A office buildingwith The Green Companies | Tampa, FL | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Kendall Office Building · Class A office buildingwith The Green Companies | Miami, FL | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Deerwood Town Center · Open-air retail centerwith Core Investment Properties | Miami, FL | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Southchase Village · Retail center held directly as a tenant-in-commonwith Core Investment Properties | Orlando, FL | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | East West Shops · Anchored neighborhood centerwith LBX Investments | Atlanta metro, GA | First lien | Active |
| Real estate | Mount Prospect Plaza · Retail centerwith LBX Investments | Chicago metro, IL | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Advenir at Winterset · 300-unit apartment communitywith Advenir | Atlanta metro, GA | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | 630 Fairview · Townhome-style apartment communitywith Park Capital Partners | Greenville, SC | Mezzanine debt | Active |
| Real estate | Easley Multifamily Portfolio · Multifamily portfoliowith Affordable Upstate | Easley, SC | Mezzanine debt | Active |
| Real estate | Student housing and apartment communitieswith The Green Companies | Florida | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Arvada Self-Storage · Self-storage facilitywith JB Capital Management | Arvada, CO | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Two hotels bought below replacement cost, renovated and re-flaggedwith A&R Hospitality | Mobile, AL | Equity | Active |
| Real estate | Ground-up hotel developmentwith A&R Hospitality | Gulf Coast | Development | Active |
| Real estate | Distressed hospitality credit programwith Peachtree Hotel Group | National | Credit | Active |
| Funds | Adler Real Estate Fund IV · Light industrial and business-park fundwith Adler Real Estate Partners | National | Fund | Active |
| Funds | Peachtree Distressed Opportunity Fund · Distressed commercial real estate credit fundwith Peachtree Group | National | Fund | Active |
| Funds | Multi-tenant office fundwith Bamboo Micro Opportunity Fund | St. Louis, MO | Fund | Active |
| Funds | Long/short public equity partnershipwith Soundview Equity Partners | Public equities | Fund | Active |
| Early stage | Rezilient · Robotic telehealth care hubs | Healthcare | Convertible note | Active |
| Early stage | Swipecast · Booking marketplace for creative talent | Marketplaces | Convertible note | Active |
| Early stage | KettleSpace · On-demand workspace in hospitality venues | Marketplaces | Seed | Active |
| Early stage | Laws of Motion · Womenswear built on algorithmic sizing | Consumer | Direct | Active |
| Early stage | Chillhouse · Wellness and self-care brand | Consumer | SPV | Realized |
| Early stage | Omada Health and Caris Life Sciences · Late-stage healthcare positions | Healthcare | Fund | Realized |
| Digital assets | Kraken · Digital asset exchange | Pre-IPO secondary | Secondary | Active |
| Digital assets | Five infrastructure positions: restaking, rollups, cross-chain, data | Ethereum and layer 1s | SPV | Active |
Sponsors, managers and co-investors
1011 East OrangeA&R HospitalityAdler GroupAdler Real Estate PartnersAdvenirAffordable UpstateAmeritus Real EstateBamboo Micro Opportunity FundCore Investment PropertiesDragonfly InvestmentsThe Green CompaniesHeller HouseJB Capital ManagementLBX InvestmentsPark Capital PartnersPeachtree GroupPeachtree Hotel GroupPepper PikeSoundview Equity PartnersTrinity Private Equity Group
Most of our work starts with primary data. For public companies that means reading every call and filing ourselves and tracking the operating numbers between reports. In digital assets it means measuring adoption, fees and revenue directly from the chain before we form a view.