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Ilan Cohen
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How Best to Connect with Land Developers in Atlanta?

Ilan Cohen
  • Investor
  • GA
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Hello BP Community,

I'm seeking your advice on the most effective ways to connect with land developers in the Atlanta area. Our team specializes in preparing land up to the LDP stage, including handling all necessary entitlements, and we are looking to partner with developers who are interested in such ready-to-develop opportunities.

Could you share any strategies/tips on connecting with developers here? Any specific networking events, forums, or groups within BP or outside it that you have found valuable? Any guidance or recommendations you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and insights!

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Simmy Ahluwalia
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Simmy Ahluwalia
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@Ilan Cohen - let's chat.  I'm in the ATL as well.  I fund builders and developers, so obviously, I work with many seeking entitled land.

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Ian Porter
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Ian Porter
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@Simmy Ahluwalia I'm a builder in Atlanta and I'm starting to delve into the spec build market. Can you send me some more info on your funding programs? 

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Ian Porter
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Ian Porter
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@Ilan Cohen  Let me know if you have any pad ready lots inside the 285 perimeter in ATL

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Simmy Ahluwalia
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Simmy Ahluwalia
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Quote from @Ian Porter:

@Simmy Ahluwalia I'm a builder in Atlanta and I'm starting to delve into the spec build market. Can you send me some more info on your funding programs? 

 Hey Ian, just shot you a DM.

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Robert Ellis
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Robert Ellis
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  • Developer
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Quote from @Ilan Cohen:

Hello BP Community,

I'm seeking your advice on the most effective ways to connect with land developers in the Atlanta area. Our team specializes in preparing land up to the LDP stage, including handling all necessary entitlements, and we are looking to partner with developers who are interested in such ready-to-develop opportunities.

Could you share any strategies/tips on connecting with developers here? Any specific networking events, forums, or groups within BP or outside it that you have found valuable? Any guidance or recommendations you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and insights!


 are you doing horizontal or vertical entitlements? who is your target buyer? more than likely you will need to speak to the land groups of home builders or the land and development groups of multifamily buying groups and most are going to be publicly traded. make sure you have enough housing units. if you provide more info I can help out. there's a million different niches in development and more than likely less than 10 buyers for what you are talking about in any niche. we just reached out to Greystar for apartment development site we are putting together that is a vertical development. we called their office for the midwest and messaged every single person on their team on linkedin. put the effort in and you'll get results. 

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Kenneth Bell
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Kenneth Bell
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Hey @Ilan Cohen,

I sometimes sell some of my entitled deal that I don't want to go vertical on. One good way is to list the property if you have purchased it of course. If not if you have site control you can look at other permits for construction in the area for other projects. These are all public record and you can find the builder who will lead you to the developer if they are different people.

What type of deals are you doing in Atlanta? I am interested in that market. Depending on density and price of course!!

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Robert Ellis
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Robert Ellis
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  • Developer
  • Columbus, OH
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Quote from @Kenneth Bell:

Hey @Ilan Cohen,

I sometimes sell some of my entitled deal that I don't want to go vertical on. One good way is to list the property if you have purchased it of course. If not if you have site control you can look at other permits for construction in the area for other projects. These are all public record and you can find the builder who will lead you to the developer if they are different people.

What type of deals are you doing in Atlanta? I am interested in that market. Depending on density and price of course!!


 how do you sell these? we want to entitle not build 4/5 communities to make maximum impact in columbus because the gap is so large for entitlement 

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Azeez K.
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Azeez K.
  • Investor
  • Atlanta, GA
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Hi @Ilan Cohen

Happy to connect. I am.investor/broker here in Atlanta.

Have done several new construction and developments here in Atlanta. Feel free to connect.

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Kristi Kandel
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Kristi Kandel
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  • Developer
  • Fort Myers Beach, FL
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Quote from @Ilan Cohen:

Hello BP Community,

I'm seeking your advice on the most effective ways to connect with land developers in the Atlanta area. Our team specializes in preparing land up to the LDP stage, including handling all necessary entitlements, and we are looking to partner with developers who are interested in such ready-to-develop opportunities.

Could you share any strategies/tips on connecting with developers here? Any specific networking events, forums, or groups within BP or outside it that you have found valuable? Any guidance or recommendations you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and insights!


 Hey Ilan! I've been a nationwide developer for the past 17 years. 

Are you entitling smaller pieces of land that one developer could then take over and pull building permits, construct all of the ROW infrastructure and utilities, and build either housing, commercial, or industrial? 

Or are you subdividing larger pieces of land 25+ acres and creating multiple smaller parcels 3-10 acres that developers could then take over and build out? 

Or are you subdividing the land into smaller parcels and building the roads and utilities infrastructure so builders could come in and start building SFH on each new lot?


Or something else? Each scenario requires different skill sets and partners.