IUVO Companies, SBC is a commercial real estate advisory firm.IUVO Companies, SBC is incorporated as a Specific Benefit Corporation. We are solidly "for profit" and business results first -- with an awesome wrinkle; we have committed to financial and/or volunteer assistance to organizations advocating for vulnerable and disadvantaged youth and adults locally, nationally and globally. The company's key tenet is centered around SERVICE TO OTHERS -- firstly our clients and investors; then the organizations we support. We get the satisfaction of honing our creative, deal-making chops while refueling the sense of purpose we all seek. The juxtaposition between "making it" to willingly "give a chunk of it away" is energizing.IUVO (Latin, verb): to serve

Founded in 1989, Chesapeake Companies is a full-service, commercial real estate investment and development firm actively acquiring and developing property nationwide. The depth and range of our capabilities span years of diverse projects in many states across the Country. Chesapeake's principal's wide experience covers a wide spectrum of commercial real estate, from the development of raw land, industrial, office, and retail properties to large master-planned business parks. We are committed to long-term relationships based on shared goals, mutual trust, and hard work. We take deep personal pride in what we do and how well we do it.• Partner -- Co-founded the company in 1989. • Chesapeake and past career history: Acquisition, development, financing, asset management, and disposition of millions of square feet of diverse commercial real estate projects (office, retail, industrial) throughout the country.• Properties included, single asset, net lease, multi-tenant retail, showroom, industrial, suburban office, CBD high-rise office sites, and master-planned business parks.• Maintained additional offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Denver.

I opened the Phoenix, AZ. office in 1984 and completed the development (and sale) of two master-planned office parks in Scottsdale, AZ. I was subsequently named Partner in charge of Development at the Woodbridge headquarters office in Minnetonka, MN.