RPISE is a boutique NNN retail developer. For four decades, the same two principals have carried every project from lease negotiation to grand opening — without handoffs, without guesswork, without exception.
Most retail developers hand you off — to project managers, to consultants, to subs. We don't. Every RPISE project is executed by the same two principals who signed the LOI, negotiated the lease, and pulled the permit. That's how we've kept tenants like national retailers coming back for four decades.
RPISE is not a shop of project managers and consultants. It's a two-person principal team that has closed, permitted, built, and delivered more than sixty NNN retail properties since 1985 — the way developers used to do it before the industry forgot how.
In 1985, RPISE delivered its first ground-up project — a Super Walmart anchor site in Tallahassee, Florida. The playbook we wrote on that project became the foundation of everything we do: locate the site, negotiate the lease, pull the permits, build to the tenant's prototype, and hand over a turnkey store on day one.
Four decades and sixty-plus developments later, the playbook is sharper, but the philosophy hasn't changed. Every project RPISE touches is run by the same two principals — from the first LOI to the final punch list. No handoffs. No outsourced oversight. Just developers who actually know the project they're developing.
That continuity is rare in retail real estate. It's also why national retailers, landowners, and investors keep coming back to us when predictability matters more than headcount.
Most retail developers rotate principals, outsource execution, and chase the cycle. RPISE has done the opposite for forty years: slow, deliberate, repeatable delivery with the same two names on every closing.
Founded with the delivery of a Super Walmart-anchored retail site in Tallahassee, Florida — the first of what would become a four-decade NNN development practice.
More than sixty triple-net retail properties delivered turnkey — from permitted site to tenant walk-through — across decades of shifting retail formats.
Every RPISE project — without exception — has been produced by the same two people, from lease negotiation through key turnover. That's the entire org chart.
Four-plus decades of direct working relationships with corporate real estate departments, tenant reps, municipalities, and landowners across the Southeast.
No junior associates running your site. No handoffs mid-project. The people who sign the LOI are the ones standing on the slab on delivery day.
We don't do office. We don't do multifamily. We do NNN ground-up retail — and we do it the way the corporate real estate teams wish all developers did.
NNN retail is a tight ecosystem — corporate real estate departments, tenant reps, net-lease brokers, 1031 buyers, municipal planners, civil engineers, GCs, and signage vendors. RPISE has spent four decades cultivating relationships across all of it. That network is why our projects move.
Principal-to-principal lease negotiations with national retailer real estate and construction departments.
Long-standing relationships with the tenant-rep brokerage community that sources sites for national and regional retailers.
An active network across net-lease capital — 1031 buyers, institutional NNN aggregators, private investors, and REIT acquisitions desks.
Consistent, long-tenured engineering and design partners who have worked RPISE projects for years — not rotating bidders.
A construction bench we've vetted over decades. The reason our schedules hold and our punch lists close quickly.
Entitlement and permitting relationships built one project at a time, across dozens of jurisdictions.
End-to-end NNN development — engineered around predictable delivery for national and regional retailers.
Market analysis, traffic counts, and direct negotiations with landowners to assemble sites that match tenant demographics and corporate criteria.
Principal-to-principal negotiation with corporate real estate teams. LOI, lease, exhibits, and all tenant-specific delivery requirements.
Rezoning, site plan approvals, and full permitting — managing municipalities, engineers, and utilities so tenants never have to.
Vertical construction delivered to tenant prototype — on schedule, on spec, and on budget. Every finish, every signage spec.
Tenant walk-through, punch list resolution, and key turnover. Our deliveries hit rent commencement without the usual friction.
From single-tenant NNN holds to strategic dispositions, we advise owners on the lifecycle of net-leased retail real estate.
We only develop NNN ground-up retail — and that single focus covers a surprising range of tenant types.
Ground-up anchor boxes — the category RPISE was founded in.
Single-tenant pharmacy-format NNN sites on hard corners and signalized intersections.
The highest-volume ground-up format in U.S. retail. Built to prototype, every time.
Full-format grocers and convenience-plus-fuel prototypes with civil complexity we know how to handle.
Drive-thru pads, dual-lane drive-thru, and multi-tenant outparcels on anchor-shadowed centers.
Auto-service, fitness, urgent care, veterinary, and other single-tenant specialty retail formats.
Sixty-plus projects didn't happen by accident. They happened because the same two principals run every RPISE deal against the same playbook — refined for forty years.
We source and screen sites against the tenant's actual prototype — not a generic "retail corner" wish list. Traffic counts, demographics, visibility, access, competitive mapping, and municipal posture are all vetted before we ever touch a contract.
Principal-to-principal negotiation with the tenant's corporate real estate team. LOI, lease, exhibits, work letter, co-tenancy, exclusives, signage, and construction deliverables — negotiated by the people who will actually build the building.
Due diligence, title, survey, environmental, geotechnical, zoning. We close clean, with a full diligence file, ready to entitle.
Rezoning, site plan, variance work, DOT coordination, utility extensions, civil permits, building permits. The unglamorous engine of retail development — and where most projects go sideways.
Architecture, civil, structural, MEP, landscape — all tied to tenant prototype and site constraints. Tenant review cycles managed so the construction drawings don't surprise anyone.
Vetted GC, vetted subs, tight schedule, tight budget, and a principal walking the site. Tenant milestones — slab, shell complete, fixture turnover — are the milestones we protect.
Tenant walk-through, punch list, certificate of occupancy, rent-commencement letter. The store opens. The rent starts. And RPISE hands over every document a future owner or investor will ever need.
Anchor-tenant sites, build-to-suit ground-ups, and long-term NNN holds across the Southeast and beyond.
The entire RPISE team is its two principals. Every project since 1985 has been executed, start to finish, by the same two people. That's the org chart — and it's also the moat.
Lead on site identification, tenant negotiation, lease structure, and closing. Four decades of direct working relationships with national retailer corporate real estate teams and tenant-rep brokers across the Southeast.
Responsibilities: Site sourcing · LOI & lease negotiation · Deal structure · Capital & closing · Tenant relationship ownership
Lead on permitting, entitlements, civil and design coordination, construction, and tenant delivery. Four decades of pattern recognition across municipalities, utility providers, and engineering partners.
Responsibilities: Rezoning & site plan · Civil & MEP coordination · Construction management · Tenant delivery · Punch list & close-out
If you're a retailer looking for a developer who doesn't blink — or a landowner sitting on a real corner — let's talk.
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