#345 - Chuck Anderson - Co-Founder @ Bandera Ventures

The Fort - An Entrepreneurship Podcast

Charles Anderson founded Bandera Ventures with Pryor Blackwell and Thomas Leiser in May 2003. The Partners have over 140 years’ of experience in commercial real estate development, encompassing more than 62 million square feet of development and acquisitions throughout the United States and Canada. Bandera’s real estate development expertise includes office, industrial, retail, medical, data centers, and build-to-suit projects.

We discuss:

• How Trammell Crow was able to produce so many successful RE operators
• Building Bandera Ventures
• Why DFW is the best real estate market in America

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Links

Bandera Ventures

Trammell Crow Company

Topics

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:03:06) - Chuck’s background

(00:07:39) - Experiences working at Trammell Crow

(00:10:39) - Thoughts on the current market

(00:15:20) - How Trammell Crow was able to have so many All-stars under one roof

(00:17:58) - Chuck’s role at Trammell Crow

(00:19:57) - Ideating Bandera

(00:22:35) - Battling cancer & the power of Bible study

(00:32:32) - Advice for young folks

(00:34:58) - Inside Bandera

(00:40:50) - Data centers

(00:47:08) - Bandera’s org structure

(00:50:13) - Recourse Debt

(00:52:54) - What would it take for you to do an office deal?

(00:53:59) - TI

(00:57:22) - Super luxury markets

(01:00:27) - Capitalizing deals

(01:05:42) - Development

(01:07:08) - Why DFW is the best market in the country

(01:15:43) - Permitting and Zoning

(01:18:50) - Market predictions

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