Innovan Neighborhoods

What are the top three things you need to succeed in real estate development? 🏗️🏢 Maggie J. Parker from Innovan Neighborhoods shared the following pillars to succeed in development with our Real Estate Ladies group: ✴️ 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Real estate development is a roller coaster, and it takes immense mental strength to navigate unexpected obstacles. Maggie emphasized how being a woman of color in the industry can be challenging, but maintaining composure and standing your ground is crucial. She cited that having 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 is KEY - it took her years to get her 203-unit townhome land deal entitled. ✴️ 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 Building and maintaining relationships is everything. Listening to residents and the city allowed Maggie to adapt her projects to better serve the community. Also, by forming a key partnership with an established company like Matthews Southwest, she leveraged their expertise and demonstrated how relationships can open doors. ✴️ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Maggie’s background in city planning and experience with community-based funds helped her secure major projects. This proves how critical it is to obtain technical knowledge with real-world experience. Her advice for emerging developers? Know your numbers - learn how to underwrite and put together pro formas. _____ It was a pleasure hosting our Real Estate Ladies meet-up and having Maggie Parker as our guest speaker to inspire our group! 💫 Thank you to all the ladies (and gents!) who joined us and to our sponsors, Sendera Title and Cash Flow Portal, for making this event possible. It is these in-person networking events that help solidify key professional and personal relationships of a lifetime. We formed our group Real Estate Ladies so we can support an essential key pillar of success - Relationships. 😀 Please join us at our next REL event - 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵! If you want to be added to our email list to get early details of our next event, please DM me or see list sign-up in comments! #realestateladies #womeninrealestate #realestatedevelopment #patiencecapital #networking #knowledgeispower Navi Ventures

The end of the year is the perfect time to reflect on what matters most to us: our friends, family, and all of you. If you haven’t had an opportunity to give this year, don’t worry; the season of year-end-giving is here. Every gift, big or small, makes a difference and has the power to create lasting impact for DCH while also providing you with valuable tax benefits! 2024 has been a fantastic year; we’ve made significant progress with the Armonia Apartments, shared critical resources to our residents and the community, celebrated the history of Queen City, and so much more, and we couldn’t have accomplished it without your support. We’d like to thank Simmons Bank & American National Bank of Texas for their meaningful year-end contributions to DCH! Thank you for believing in our shared vision of a better future for Dallas. If you’d like to join in on the end-of-year giving, please visit our donation page here: https://lnkd.in/dvY6VZ3v

Celebrating 30 years of Matthews. Three decades of forging strong partnerships, creating long-term value, embracing challenges, and always doing what's right. We're excited to reflect on the impactful projects that have shaped our journey and look ahead to even more milestones. Join us as we look back at the milestones that have shaped our legacy and paved the way for a brighter future. Stay tuned for a series of posts highlighting the impactful moments and visionary endeavors that define our commitment to excellence. #Matthews #Matthews30th

We often discuss access to capital - especially for developers of color, women, and those serving under-resourced areas. And often the hardest capital to access is equity for our businesses and our development projects... On September 12th, a few of us in this space, have decided to partner to have this conversation...to hear from national funds interested in investing in the TX market, with entity-level and project-level equity. Whether you are ready for this type of funding or not, don't miss this conversation to see what the future possibilities are or to make new relationships to further your current projects. Thank you to the Community Developers Roundtable, AAREP DFW, and BCREN - Black Commercial Real Estate Network for partnering to get the word out. We hope to see you there! Thank you to TruFund Financial Services (Jerrel Duffy Jr), MSquared (Andrea Wenner) and Blue Vista Capital Management (Dwight Stephenson and Michael Wieden) for participating in the conversation. Feel free to RSVP at the link below: https://lnkd.in/g47jRYCD Brandon Bradley Derith Jarvis