About Akridge
What does Akridge do?
Akridge is a commercial real estate firm that develops, invests in, and operates high-quality properties. In addition to our development and investment platform, we provide advisory and third-party services including Owner’s Representation, Construction Project Management, Property Management, Leasing, and Finance and Asset Management, delivering end-to-end support across the real estate lifecycle.
Is Akridge a developer, investor, or service provider?
All three. Akridge is a developer and investor with deep operational expertise, and we also serve as a third-party partner for owners and institutions seeking experienced support in planning, financing, executing, and operating commercial real estate projects.
What property types does Akridge work on?
Akridge supports a range of commercial property types, often including office, mixed-use, multifamily, specialty use, and other institutional-grade assets. Our services are structured to match the specific needs, goals, and operational realities of each property and ownership group.
Owner’s Representation
What is Owner’s Representation (Owner’s Rep)?
Owner’s Rep is a professional service that assists the owner with achieving its business objectives of the project, while protecting the owner’s interests by helping manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, procurement, risk, and stakeholder coordination from planning through closeout.
When should I hire an Owner’s Rep?
Owner’s Rep is most valuable when the need for a project is first realized, and an owner wants an experienced partner to assist with:
- Defining its needs
- Assessing the project environment
- Assemble and oversee teams
- Devising cost, resource, and procurement strategies
- Framing and advising decision-making
- Driving accountability across designers, contractors, and vendors
- Reducing risk and avoid costly surprises
- Planning, and maintaining schedule discipline and budget control
- Coordinating decision-making with clear reporting
- Protecting quality and long-term asset value
- Processing information and provide actionable reporting
How does Akridge approach Owner’s Rep differently?
Akridge applies an owner’s mentality, informed by decades of development, investment, and operations experience, to every project in our portfolio. We are sensitive to the organizational and stakeholder pressures that surround large projects. We take the time to understand your priorities, then tailor processes, reporting, and team structures to fit your goals and internal capacity.
Construction Management
What construction management services does Akridge provide?
Akridge can provide construction management support such as:
- Team assemblage
- Design oversight
- Preconstruction planning and budgeting
- Schedule development and milestone tracking
- Procurement strategy and contractor coordination
- Innovative problem solving
- Change order review and cost control
- Quality management and field oversight
- Risk management, safety coordination, and closeout support
- Close-out and commissioning
Can Akridge manage construction if you aren’t the developer?
Yes. Akridge provides third-party construction and project management for owners who want hands-on expertise to oversee planning and delivery, even when Akridge is not the project developer.
Do you support renovations, repositionings, and capital programs?
Yes. Many owners engage Akridge for renovations, building upgrades, repositionings, conversions, tenant improvements, and multi-year capital plans – particularly when they want a single, accountable team coordinating multiple scopes and vendors.
Property Management
What property management services does Akridge offer?
Akridge provides property management services designed to protect asset value and improve tenant experience, including:
- Nationally recognized client service
- Day-to-day operations and building engineering coordination
- Vendor management and service contracts
- Operating budget preparation and expense management
- Preventative maintenance and capital planning support
- Tenant service coordination and communication
- Sustainability and building performance initiatives (where applicable)
What’s included in Akridge’s approach to tenant and client service?
Akridge prioritizes responsiveness, proactive communication, and consistent execution. Our teams focus on creating well-run buildings where issues are resolved quickly, through creative and innovative problem solving. We ensure plans are clear, and ownership goals stay front-and-center. Our focus is on sustainable practices, property appreciation, and client retention.
Can Akridge manage a single building or an entire portfolio?
Yes. Akridge can support single assets or multi-asset portfolios, tailoring the management model, staffing, reporting cadence, and vendor strategy to the ownership structure and business plan.
Working With Akridge
What types of clients hire Akridge for third-party services?
Akridge works with a range of owners and stakeholders, including universities, institutional investors, private owners, nonprofits, corporate occupiers, municipalities, and public/private entities – especially those seeking an experienced partner to deliver outcomes with clarity and accountability.
How do you tailor services to a client’s needs?
We start by learning what success looks like for you – your concerns, constraints, stakeholders, timelines, reporting preferences, and risk tolerance. Then we design a service plan (team structure, governance, metrics, reporting, and cadence) that aligns with your goals and decision-making style.
How does Akridge ensure project excellence?
Excellence begins with a focus on disciplined fundamentals: clear scope, thoughtful planning, realistic budgeting, detailed procurement, thorough analysis, rigorous change control, transparent reporting, and proactive risk management – delivered by a team that treats your priorities like our own.
What makes Akridge different from a typical third-party provider?
Akridge recognizes that large, complex, or highly specialized projects involve far more than construction alone. Their success is shaped by a range of multidisciplinary services, and meaningful value is created by integrating perspectives from across diverse service lines. Our services are informed by real operator experience, principal involvement, and input from the various departments of the firm, including development, leasing, marketing, asset management, legal, investment, and building operations, among others. This perspective helps us anticipate problems earlier, communicate tradeoffs clearly, strengthen decision confidence, and protect long-term asset outcomes – not just near-term milestones.
Process, Fees, and Getting Started
How do we get started with Akridge?
Typically we begin with a discovery conversation to understand your organizational, professional, project or asset, goals, timeline, stakeholder sensitivities, and current team. From there, we propose a scope, staffing approach, and reporting cadence aligned to your needs.
Do you offer fixed-fee or hourly pricing?
Depending on the scope, Akridge can structure fees as fixed, hourly, monthly retainer, or hybrid. The best model depends on project complexity, duration, objectives, and the level of on-site support required.
Can Akridge step in mid-project if we’re experiencing challenges?
Yes. Akridge can help stabilize fractured projects, by – assessing current status, identifying root causes, and implementing a plan to regain control of schedule, budget, decision-making, and communication.