Walker Thrash
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246 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 May
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Happy to be here.
Thanks, Kayvon.
Yeah, this will be fun.
Sure.
So my company is called Vertical, spelled with a K, but we are really, we're a public private company.
partnering firm so our emphasis is all real estate transactions real estate development um but we really you know we don't just build buildings our intention when we when we walk into the room is really trying to solve either a city or at the state level solve a development problem
We specialize in, I would say, if you boil it down, ultimately, we try to place risk on the correct sides of the table.
And then what sets us apart a little bit from a lot of people that kind of quote unquote consult in the public private realm is in almost every project, we actually invest all or most of the private capital that goes into the private side of the development.
No, my family, my grandfather was involved in both grandfathers in the lumber business.
My father...
very involved in real estate, mainly in apartments.
So I kind of grew up around real estate, right?
Real estate deals, talking through that for years, spent time in my family business with my father and younger brother.
But really started to have somewhat of a passion for hotel development, hospitality.
We ended up forming a small brand.
It was part of the group that formed a small hotel brand that's in six or seven states at this point.
And what you learn in putting together hospitality projects, because these hotels were full service, had restaurants in the bottom, is that financially, a lot of hotels have some kind of public incentive to make them work.
somewhat cut my teeth putting hotel deals together learning the public private nuances where those buckets of capital were and really I'd say more importantly learning how to to navigate the public side of negotiating real estate deals interesting okay so we're the navigation on the public side tell me a little bit more about that
Well, and I think this is true in private deals as well, but it's highlighted when you're dealing with the public realm because to simplify it, it's no one at the table is their personal checking account on, right?
When you're in a public arrangement, these are hired people, either it's city or elected, right?
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