David Marks

David M. Marks

David Marks is the President and CEO of Phoenix Investors, a national real estate firm specializing in industrial real estate based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as trustee, key officer, director, and manager for all its affiliated entities, a role that he has held since 1994. Mr. Marks oversees all investments, with responsibilities that begin pre-acquisition and extend through ownership and disposition. Mr. Marks began his real estate career in the late 1980s while still an undergraduate, completing acquisition underwriting, portfolio analysis, and abstracting complex anchor tenant leases on a national basis. In the early 1990s, Mr. Marks worked on national acquisitions, underwritings, and financings, highlighted by assisting in the creation of Wall Street’s first retail commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) transaction. Today, he oversees one of the largest private industrial real estate portfolios comprised of 46 million square feet, spanning 28 states. Mr. Marks and his wife Rachael are active supporters of various charitable organizations, with a specific focus on Jewish charities in Southeastern Wisconsin. He received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Fujifilm Announces Sale Agreement for its Greenwood, South Carolina Campus…

As published by Fujifilm Greenwood, S.C. – FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation (Fujifilm) today announced that FUJIFILM Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc., one of its subsidiaries, has entered into an agreement to sell its Greenwood, South Carolina site to an affiliate of Phoenix Investors, a national commercial real estate firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with large-scale industrial real estate holdings across the U.S. As part of Fujifilm’s initiative to meet its future manufacturing and administrative workspace needs, Fujifilm will maintain a workforce of over 300 employees at the site, ... Read More

Phoenix Investors Buys Former Manufacturing Plants

As published by Barbra Murray for Commercial Property ExecutiveThree industrial facilities increase the company’s portfolio by 1 million square feet.Phoenix Investors continues to expand its portfolio, most recently adding three industrial properties via three separate transactions. The company purchased the former manufacturing plants totaling more than 1 million square feet in metropolitan Milwaukee and the Greater Raleigh, N.C., area.Phoenix is a master of redeveloping and repurposing former plants and plans to do just that with its new purchases. With the explosion in construction costs over the ... Read More

Can Blighted Properties Provide New Industrial Inventory?

The industrial real estate sector has been plagued by a shortage of new inventory thanks to a confluence of events that includes the COVID-19 pandemic, building material supply disruptions, labor shortages, a continuing run on e-commerce fulfillment centers, and much more. As a result, industrial stakeholders have gotten creative in the face of adversity by converting commercial properties, building vertical warehouses, and spreading inventory across numerous micro-fulfillment centers. Despite the innovation happening over the past two years, many industry stakeholders have overlooked blighted industrial properties ... Read More

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