Forge Real Estate Partners

Investing in Industrial Real Estate
Powering America’s Fastest Growing Markets

Institutional grade acquisition and development across the Southeast

We Invest Where Growth Is Structural

Not Cyclical

Forge Real Estate Partners is an industrial focused investment and development firm targeting high growth Southeast markets with durable economic tailwinds.

We pursue opportunities where demographic expansion, infrastructure investment, and business migration converge. Our focus is clear: acquire and develop well located industrial real estate with strong fundamentals and embedded upside.

We move decisively. We underwrite conservatively. We execute relentlessly.

Strategy Built on Discipline

We are not volume driven. We are conviction driven.

Our platform is built to:

Identify well located value add industrial assets
Develop functional industrial projects
Target multi-tenant industrial opportunities
Capitalize on supply constrained submarkets
Protect downside through disciplined due diligence and market analysis

Small bay and micro bay product is a core competency, but our mandate is broader

We pursue opportunities across the industrial spectrum where risk-adjusted returns justify the investment

Ben Douglas

Managing Partner

Forge was founded by Ben Douglas after almost a decade of working with established developers and capital providers across the Sun Belt region. Prior to forming Forge, Ben served as Director of Acquisitions & Development at Leon Industrial, expanding the firm’s pipeline across core Southeastern markets.

Previously, Ben spent over six years at Crescent Communities working on various teams supporting large scale industrial and multifamily development projects. During his time on the industrial development team, Ben was directly involved in over 2M SF of institutional quality development. Before that, Ben worked on the Capital Markets team, where he assisted with the capital raising efforts for Crescent’s multifamily platform helping to raise over $1.4B across both debt and equity.

Ben graduated with honors from the University of Alabama with a degree in Finance.

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