By David Repka, Co-Founder Bison Financial Group Let’s face it, the last few years have been astonishingly difficult for anyone in the “dealmaking game” as fear, uncertainty and doubt have crept into the capital markets driving reliable sources of capital to the sidelines. No pocket of capital has been picked as clean as construction funding [...]
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By Jeff McMahon, Forbes Contributor Blogger Comment by David Repka Warren Buffett‘s wind-energy company plunged into solar energy this afternoon, agreeing to purchase the Topaz Solar Farm project in Central California for more than $2 billion, the company announced. In 2000, Berkshire Hathaway and other investors paid roughly the same amount to purchase MidAmerican Energy Holdings. MidAmerican entered agreements to [...]
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Hospitality industry expert, Steve Van (pictured right), sees trouble ahead with foreclosures in the hotel sector. BLOGGER COMMENT listed below by David Repka of Bison Financial Group. Steve Van hates being the pessimist, but he can’t help it. The CEO of Prism Hotels & Resorts says comparing the last two years of hotel distress to what’s coming is [...]
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From Convenience Store News ORLANDO, Fla. — Wawa’s plans to move into the Sunshine State are beginning to take concrete shape as construction is set to begin on a convenience store in Orlando. The site will be the Pennsylvania-based retailer’s first in Florida. The 5,000-square-foot Wawa will rise across from Sea World at International Drive and Central Florida Parkway, [...]
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Bison Financial Group headquartered here launches their ambitious “Nexus Funding Platform” aimed at bringing liquidity to the commercial real estate market and bringing jobs back to our communities. According to David Repka, Co-Founder of Bison, “Over the last three years we’ve witnessed a level of economic devastation not seen since the Great Depression. [...]
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Bison Founder David Repka will be leading an All-Star panel at the Crittenden Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference in South Beach (Miami, Florida) titled “Catching The Multi-Trillion Dollar Green Wave”. The panel will discuss: Green is the new “Red, White & Blue” Out of the box ideas for real estate investors, developers and brokers to [...]
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I have been contacted by more lenders in the past 30 days than in the past 30 months… combined. I’m especially excited about the return of the CMBS marketplace. Get ready for the return of cheap, plentiful, non-recourse capital to fund commercial real estate. The dark days are over… time to get back in the [...]
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In October of 2008 I wrote a white paper called, Grave Dancing for Fun & Profit in the Financial Apocalypse of 2008 and Beyond . One of my predictions was The Death of Land calling land: “… the ultimate four-letter word. It is impolite to mention L-A-N-D in polite company because it has no cash [...]
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My name is Jared Repka. After living on Clearwater Beach for several years I moved to the big city… actually, the Old Northeast Section of St. Petersburg in 2001. Early one Saturday morning in 2002 I was running errands along Central Avenue in Downtown St. Pete when something stopped me cold in my tracks… there [...]
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There is a classic scene in the 1979 movie The Jerk starring Steve Martin where he is asked, “what I win?” while working at the carnival’s “Guess Your Weight” booth… watch it here: This clip is my metaphor for how the commercial real estate finance markets have operated since the Fall of 2008. The lending [...]
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