The Marquette Companies are a family of companies with more than a 25-year track record of real estate investment and development.

Few companies of Marquette's size have integrated a competent money management expertise coupled with deep real estate experience in an entrepreneurial corporate culture in order to create strong investments with institutional grade asset management and reporting. Marquette is ideally suited for this type of strategic partnership.

The Marquette Companies has developed its winning formula by forming numerous partnership ventures over the years. Its efforts have produced long lasting benefits to its investors, residents, customers, its employees, and the public it serves. The Marquette Companies’ staff numbers about 350 people, with 8,200 residential units in six states, and over 800 acres under its control. Marquette’s gross annual revenues total approximately $85M.

The principals of MLI have a rich diversity of experience that has created a synergistic gain for the company. During their careers, these partners have acquired, designed, engineered, and developed several thousand acres of land. The principals have worked with most of the major homebuilders in the Chicago market and commercial developers who have become the end users who have helped to add value in every case. MLI has spent the last three years conducting a detailed analysis of the growth patterns, public transportation, sewer and water infrastructure, road systems, and municipal approvals and densities in the Chicago market in order to determine the most viable areas that will be targeted for development. MLI has also spent the last three years developing trust and a track record with many homebuilders like Pulte Homes and Lennar in order to strengthen its strategic alliances. The key to the successful implementation of this strategy is the collaboration between the staff of MLI and the land divisions of the areas largest homebuilders and commercial developers

Total assets under management - $610 Million Largest existing clients • Michigan State Employees’ Retirement System • State of Wisconsin Investment Board • General Motors Acceptance Corporation (Capmark) • Northwestern Mutual Life • MuniMae Midland • ING Realty Partners