JOHN ford
President
John has spent his long and accomplished real estate career leading some of the Midwest’s most ambitious construction and development projects. His work for a Chicago-based industry-leading firm included heading up property management operations on a 600,000 square-foot Class A high-rise office building project that increased tenant occupancy from 64% to 92%. Additionally, John acted as Senior Analyst in four high-rise office building acquisitions throughout the Midwest, collectively totaling 3,600,000 square feet at a value of $1.1 billion. Prior to co-founding Catalyst Partners, John was development director for all facets of Milwaukee’s newest state-of-the-art high-rise office building development, an endeavor that was awarded the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2017 Project of the Year.
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As President of Catalyst Partners, John has been integral in the firm’s ever-expanding portfolio of development projects in and around Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin. John’s development project focus in the near term includes: 30,000 SF Ascension Medical Clinic in Mequon on course to be completed in Q1 of 2022, the recently completed Holiday Inn Express & Suites hotel in West Allis, and the 144-unit Walkers Point Multi-Family residential development scheduled for completion Fall of 2022. Multiple other developments are currently being evaluated across a range of uses that are scheduled to commence construction in 2022.