Our story
JPRE was not founded in 2025. It was built, one asset class at a time, over twenty-five years.
Three businesses, one strategy. Advisory keeps JPRE in the market every day, so the firm sees the deals, the tenants and the pricing before they are public. Development turns that view into buildings. Investment holds the best of them. Fees fund the patience; the portfolio compounds the results. Each business makes the other two better, which is why JPRE has never sold one off.
- 2000
JPRE Residential is launched: first portfolio
In 2000, as a finance undergraduate at the University of South Florida, Joshua Pardue bought his first rental and paid for school by acquiring, renovating and leasing houses, duplexes and small apartment buildings in Central Florida, focusing on Tampa and Ybor. The residential portfolio he holds today started there, and some of those units are still held as it continues to grow.
- 2004
The first companies
In 2004, still in school, he launched We Do Home Loans and partnered in Home Realty of America, a residential brokerage. In the first year the team closed more than 100 transactions and placed $7.5M in debt. By 2006 the loans were closing too easily, which he read as the market telling him it was about to correct. He sold his interests at the top, moved to commercial only, and never went back.
- 2008
Colliers International, Commercial Transactions
At Colliers International in Tampa he was a Top-10 producer and won the 2010 Largest Office Investment Sale award for the Seacoast Bank Tower note sale. In 2011 he closed the largest single fee for Colliers Florida since the start of the recession, and he co-led a 20-broker office group. He finished his Executive MBA at the University of Tampa the same year, while doing the job.
- 2010
Buying through the downturn
With the market on the floor, he and his partners began buying distressed assets from banks: a 32,000 SF cold-storage facility in Fort Lauderdale from the lender, 11 acres in Haines City from Citizens Bank, 207 acres in North Port from Wells Fargo. The Fort Lauderdale building was re-entitled, renovated and converted to a multi-tenant food facility that is fully leased today. The Haines City outparcels were sold to a medical user for roughly the original land basis, with the balance still held.
- 2012
New York, Capital Markets
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Stan Johnson Company recruited him to open its New York office with no clients and no team. The office won the firm's Best New Team Launch award after doubling its first-year benchmark. Within three years it was the firm's second-highest-producing office, and it grew to more than twenty professionals. He was a top-five producer every year and the firm's top national broker in 2013, with a Top Transaction of the Year award for a national sale-leaseback portfolio. More than $1B in closed transactions came out of that chapter, across 25 states.
The choice of capital markets was deliberate: raising debt and equity and selling finished buildings put him inside dozens of developments from the first pro forma to the closing table, on someone else's risk. By the time JPRE broke ground on its own, the team had already watched the whole movie many times over.
- 2014
Build-to-suit
The relationships from capital markets became a development business. The work included hospitals in Phoenix (Dignity Health) and Broomfield, Colorado (UCHealth, sold for $51M in 2016), a freestanding emergency department for HCA in Jacksonville, and a surgery center outside Orlando whose tenant was acquired by AdventHealth mid-construction (the building delivered and the lease held). It also included a run of specialty veterinary hospitals for one national operator across six markets: Miami, Golden Valley, Birmingham, Austin, Lake Norman and Portland.
Twelve build-to-suits were delivered, from 10,000 to 80,000 square feet, for tenants who came back. The firm never chased the small-box dollar-store deals that fill most build-to-suit resumes; a hospital is a different sport.
- 2015
Operating companies
Real estate is the asset; the business inside it is often the value. Over the years JPRE and its partners have run the operating companies their buildings needed. Among them were Catered Fit, a Florida food-tech company taken from $3M to $15M in revenue through four acquisitions and an ESOP, then sold to another operator in the space while JPRE kept the industrial building it ran from; Karpeles Grand Events, the venue business inside a 1921 Jacksonville church; and The Bricks, the 120-year-old bar on 7th Avenue. The Advisory branch of the company has been in business since 2012, placing capital with projects and connecting tenants to spaces across the country.
The primary business is allocating the firm's two resources, its people and its capital. When a deal needs an operator and the right one is not available, JPRE becomes the operator.
- 2020
JPRE Commercial
In 2020 the partners launched JPRE Commercial, stopped doing projects with GNP and elected to grow JPRE. Everything built since carries one brand, one balance sheet and one standard.
- 2021
Historical Properties and Mixed Use
What the team is passionate about.
Then the work came home. JPRE decided to ramp up investments in areas like urban Tampa, urban Jacksonville and select projects in Miami. A 1921 church in Jacksonville became Karpeles Grand. A historic school campus became Beulah Beal. A former synagogue became the 78-unit Springfield Lofts. In Tampa, the 120-year-old bar on 7th Avenue became The Bricks, bought outright with no outside investors, and the Farris Building on Franklin Street became Hall on Franklin.
- 2026
Entertainment, Tampa
JPRE raised capital and became a partner in a confidential 50,000 SF entertainment business in Tampa.
- The people
A uniquely strong team that protects each other and the assets, and finishes hard assignments
Nobody here reports to a boss and nobody calls it work. JPRE is a tight-knit group that takes on hard assignments and finishes them, and it can because the people here look after one another first. The company invests in its people before it asks anything of them: in their training, their families and their lives when something goes sideways. When one of the team has an emergency, the rest show up.
The calendar has as many parties as closings. Porch Fest every year, the JPRE company event every year, gifts at the holidays, and a lot of laughing in between.
The next chapter
The same playbook at a larger scale: institutional-size urban projects in Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando and Miami, built by a team that has already done every part of this once.
Leadership
Joshua Pardue
Joshua Pardue is the CEO and founder of JPRE Development, a Tampa-based real estate investment, development and advisory firm. He leads its capital markets, debt and equity, tenant relationships and net-lease build-to-suit work, and oversees day-to-day operations and operating-company investments.
He came up through capital markets, with early roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Colliers International, then helped launch the New York office of Stan Johnson Company, later acquired by NorthMarq, where he remains in a leadership role. He has closed more than 200 transactions totaling over $1 billion and manages a development pipeline and portfolio of more than $250 million.
Today he focuses on bringing overlooked urban and historic buildings back to life, from Karpeles Grand, a century-old former church in downtown Jacksonville, to Ybor Ventures in Tampa's Ybor City. He also leads JPRE Advisory's private-client work and founded JPRE Learn. A panelist featured in The Wall Street Journal and GlobeStreet, he holds an MBA from the University of Tampa, is a CCIM, and splits his time between New York and Florida.
Our team
A close-knit team of developers, investors and advisors, backed by a trusted network of partners. Diverse in background and united by a hands-on approach to the select projects JPRE takes on.
Kelly Levin
Director of Operations
Claire Chapin
Senior Associate, Retail Leasing
Cooper Rosario
Associate
Vin Lobue
In-House Counsel
Cedrid Otero Camacho
Head of Construction
Caroline Krause
Business Development, Construction Services
Jack Madden
Business Development, Construction Services
Chris Shearer
Finance, Special Projects
Eddie Harari
Finance, Special Projects
Sonney Shell
Executive Assistant
Andrea Fish
Events
Our offices
Tampa
101 S 12th St, Ste 102
Tampa, FL 33602
Miami
Florida
New York
New York
Jacksonville
Florida