Waterfront Redevelopment
Illustrative imagery for destination-quality waterfront development, hospitality repositioning, and mixed-use value creation.
Creative Structure · Real Execution · Long-Term Value
Real estate development for complex opportunities.
Excalibur Development Group is a real estate development and investment platform focused on hospitality repositioning, workforce housing, ground lease capitalization, adaptive reuse, and tax-aware capital structures.
Representative Visuals
Graphics that reflect the kind of opportunities Excalibur Development Group pursues.
These visuals help communicate the firm’s focus on waterfront redevelopment, mixed-use placemaking, and disciplined project planning.
Mixed-Use Placemaking
A walkable urban streetscape representing Excalibur’s interest in redevelopment, housing, public realm activation, and community-oriented projects.
Strategy & Execution
Planning imagery that reinforces the firm’s emphasis on real estate strategy, capital structure, entitlement planning, and disciplined execution.
What We Do
We specialize in real estate that requires more than a conventional buyer.
Our focus is not simply acquiring assets. We identify hidden value, structure the right transaction, assemble the right team, and convert underutilized real estate into durable income-producing projects.
Hospitality Development & Repositioning
We pursue hotel, resort, boutique hospitality, and destination real estate opportunities where brand strategy, renovation, capitalization, and operational repositioning can materially improve asset value.
Workforce & Affordable Housing
We target opportunities to create needed housing through 4% LIHTC, workforce housing, adaptive reuse, mixed-use development, and public-private alignment.
Ground Lease Capitalization
We create long-term ground lease structures that separate land ownership from operations, allowing landowners, investors, and operators to participate in a more efficient and financeable structure.
Distressed & Underutilized Assets
We seek properties that are undercapitalized, mismanaged, overleveraged, poorly positioned, or trapped in outdated ownership structures — and we create a path forward.
Construction-Integrated Development
Through affiliated construction relationships, we seek to control both development strategy and execution, reducing friction between capital, design, entitlement, budgeting, and delivery.
Tax-Aware Capital Structuring
We understand that value creation often depends on the capital structure, tax posture, timing, and economics of each stakeholder — not just the underlying real estate.
Our Approach
The best real estate opportunities are often not obvious. They have to be structured.
Many assets fail to reach their potential because they are constrained by ownership fatigue, tax issues, entitlement challenges, lack of capital, construction complexity, or outdated operating models. Excalibur is built to solve those problems.
Strategic Development Vision
We evaluate the asset, market, entitlement path, construction realities, capital requirements, and exit strategy before proposing a structure.
Aligned Capital Stack Design
We work to align senior debt, preferred equity, tax credits, ground lease capital, seller participation, bridge financing, and private capital around a coherent execution plan.
Municipal and Public-Benefit Strategy
We seek development plans that can deliver real public benefits, including housing, parking, redevelopment, tourism, tax base, and jobs.
Execution Through Construction
We believe a project is only as strong as its execution path. Our platform is designed to integrate development, capital, and construction from the beginning.
Excalibur Development Group brings an entrepreneurial developer’s mindset with an institutional understanding of risk, capital, entitlement, and execution.
Where We Create Value
We focus on situations where creativity and execution change the outcome.
We are particularly focused on assets, landowners, and partnerships where a traditional sale or conventional financing approach does not capture the full value of the opportunity.
Prime real estate with unrealized potential
Well-located land or existing assets that can support a higher and better use.
Legacy ownership situations
Owners seeking liquidity, reduced management burden, succession planning, or tax-sensitive exit alternatives.
Hospitality assets needing repositioning
Hotels, motels, resorts, timeshares, and mixed-use properties that can be renovated, rebranded, expanded, or converted.
Housing opportunities in constrained markets
Sites where workforce housing, affordable housing, mixed-income development, or public-private alignment can solve a market need.
Built for Complex Transactions
Some developers only work when the path is simple. We are designed for the opposite environment.
Transaction Structures
- Ground leases and 99-year lease structures
- Leasehold financing
- Seller participation
- Installment structures
- Preferred equity and joint ventures
Project Types
- Hospitality repositioning
- Adaptive reuse
- Distressed ownership situations
- Workforce and affordable housing
- Construction-heavy redevelopment
Strategic Advantages
- Tax-aware planning
- Capital stack design
- Entitlement and municipal strategy
- Construction execution capability
- Long-term partnership alignment
Strategic Focus
Focused on Southeast growth markets, complex redevelopment, and capital structures that create durable value.
Excalibur Development Group is actively focused on opportunities involving landowners, capital partners, construction partners, operators, municipalities, and strategic investors who want to build long-term value through creative real estate development.
Hospitality RedevelopmentWaterfront Real EstateWorkforce HousingDistressed TimesharesGround Lease CapitalConstruction-Backed DevelopmentPublic-Private OpportunitiesTax-Aware Joint Ventures
Who We Work With
Aligned structures for landowners, capital partners, and municipalities.
For Landowners
If you own valuable real estate but are unsure whether to sell, lease, redevelop, or recapitalize, Excalibur can help evaluate creative alternatives.
- Long-term ground rent
- Reduced operational burden
- Tax-sensitive planning
- Participation in future upside
- Phased takeout structures
For Capital Partners
We work with private lenders, family offices, institutional investors, preferred equity providers, ground lease investors, tax credit participants, and strategic partners.
- Clear real estate fundamentals
- Identifiable value creation
- Disciplined execution
- Structured downside protection
- Aligned sponsor economics
For Municipalities
We seek to work with municipalities that want thoughtful redevelopment, improved land use, workforce housing, hospitality growth, parking solutions, and destination-quality projects.
- Housing creation
- Redevelopment and tax base
- Parking and infrastructure solutions
- Tourism and destination uses
- Long-term community impact
Let’s Build What Others Overlook
Bring us complex real estate, tired ownership, unusual capital needs, or a site with unrealized potential.
Excalibur Development Group is actively seeking development opportunities, landowner discussions, capital partnerships, strategic joint ventures, and construction-integrated projects.
Contact ExcaliburContact: Joe Gillespie — jgillespie@excaliburdg.com
Phone: 386-290-2814
Primary Markets: Florida · Southeast U.S. · Select Strategic Growth Markets