Fall season 2026
Zion Groups is three practices under one roof — property, capital, and advisory — built for owners who need more than a single transaction. This fall we’re opening two new engagements and closing on land we’ve been watching since spring.
Under management
Each division runs independently, but every deal clears the same bar before it reaches a principal’s desk.
Land & holdings
We acquire and steward mixed-use ground in growth corridors — retail podiums, light-industrial yards, and the residential parcels that follow them. Fourteen assets under active management this season, three more closing before the first frost.
Structured investment
Debt and equity positions sized for operators who have outgrown a single bank relationship but aren’t yet courting institutional terms. We underwrite the deal, not the deck.
Operating counsel
A small bench of former operators who sit inside portfolio companies for a quarter at a time — pricing, ops, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether a raise actually lands.
Eleven-unit adaptive reuse on the old freight spur. Pre-leasing opens once framing is up.
$2.3M mezzanine tranche against receivables, priced inside our standing range.
Both engagements start with a two-week diagnostic before scope is fixed.
Managing Partner, Zion Property
Nineteen years underwriting ground-up and adaptive reuse across the Piedmont.
Managing Partner, Zion Capital
Built and sold a specialty lender before joining; still answers his own phone.
Head of Advisory
Ran operations for two portfolio exits before turning that experience into a practice.
Tell us which division fits and what you’re working with. A partner reads every note personally and replies within two business days — usually sooner during the fall push.