Real Estate is a fixed asset requiring no small measure of careful consideration. Safe Ports provides objective, sound advice during every phase of real estate development and/or procurement. Our team has years of experience ensuring every detail from site selection to building security is factored into this complex process. We never forget that, ultimately, your real estate endeavor is a means to an end – providing bottom line results.

Our clients’ real estate projects deserve world-class experience guiding their decisions. Safe Ports’ partnership with Greg Powe, AIA, RIBA, MRAIC, the managing principal of Powe Jones Architects PC., brings a wealth of international experience in every facet of real estate development. As a project director, he has been hands-on in site selection, building design, development, and operations of Class A investment grade office buildings and industrial parks. Moreover, Greg has intimate familiarity with public/private partnerships and mixed use urban planning. Fitting in perfectly with Safe Ports’ sustainability focus, Greg includes “green” principles in his designs. Perhaps Greg’s most well-known project, and illustrative of his “big thinking”, is the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. As project director, Greg managed the creation of this beautiful 3.5 million square foot federal office and trade center complex that includes 2 million square feet of federal agency headquarters offices, a 500,000 SF international trade center and offices, retail/restaurants and a 2400-car underground parking garage.

 

As with many Safe Ports project areas, our real estate experience spans commercial and defense interests. Furthermore, our impact is both domestic and international. In 2006/2007, Safe Ports secured 1322 acres along I-95 in one of the poorest counties in the United States - Orangeburg, South Carolina. Safe Ports developed the site under its corporate name, CaroLinks. Noting Safe Ports’ international roots, the company was able to sell the concept and properties to JAFZA of Dubai, the world’s leader in logistics and distribution center parks. JAFZA has stated that it will likely invest up to $700 million, attracting thousands of jobs to the area, impact that will be felt in this part of the country for decades to come. A JAFZA executive stated, “If it wasn’t for her (Safe Ports CEO Lucy Duncan-Scheman), we wouldn’t be at that location.” In late 2007 Safe Ports assumed a major defense contractor’s warehousing and logistics responsibilities – bringing together the right real estate, the right people, and the right technical solutions to vastly improve their results.

Safe Ports approaches every project with the realization that our work can have a significant impact on the communities we serve. Nowhere is that impact more visible than a real estate development venture. The significance of that effect drives us to bring our full complement of talent, entrepreneurial spirit, and unwavering environmental consciousness to bear on each of these projects.