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With over 60 years experience, Benderson Development Company has engineered impressive growth through innovation, insight and determination.
Benderson Development is one of America’s largest privately held real estate companies. Benderson owns and manages over 700 properties encompassing over 40 million square feet in 38 states. The diverse Benderson portfolio includes retail, office, industrial, hotel, residential, and land holdings.
MANAGEMENT
Benderson Development has assembled a skilled managerial team who together facilitate an effective and efficient collaboration in managing and maintaining the company’s extensive property portfolio. Benderson prides itself on providing each tenant with an appropriate environment conducive to its individual business and clientele. The company has received industry-wide recognition from the retail community for its excellence in property management.
LEASING
Benderson Development has long possessed one of the industry’s most enviable track records when it comes to effective leasing services. The company consistently maintains a high occupancy and renewal rate due to a well-organized and aggressive leasing staff. Benderson’s principal criterion for tenant selection is quality, with strict guidelines that have established and created an attractive and appropriate mix of merchants and merchandise. The ideal mix attracts a broader consumer base, thus encouraging cross-selling options for merchants within each shopping center. With regional leasing offices throughout the country, Benderson personnel are within a short distance of each center within its portfolio.
CONSTRUCTION
Benderson staffs its own construction division complete with engineers, architects, draftsmen, project managers, and supervisors. These specialists work with contractors to make sure each project is done effectively, on time and within budget.
NATHAN BENDERSON • IN LOVING MEMORY • 1917-2012
| At the early age of 16, Nathan Benderson formed his first company, Bison Bottle Co., buying and reselling brewery bottles throughout Buffalo, NY. The challenges that he and his family faced during the Depression left a lifelong impression of how tough things can be, and how important family is. This not only provided a base for his business success, but instilled in him a lasting sensitivity for the less fortunate. In the fall of 1949, Nate purchased a bankrupt brewery in order to take advantage of the excess inventory. The property was eventually redeveloped, marking his first real estate venture. He later formed Benderson Development and through creativity, perseverance and hard work, he drove the growth of the business, creating one of the nation’s largest property development enterprises. The company had a profound impact on the economic and social growth of Western New York, transforming entire areas of Buffalo and its suburbs with new developments, thousands of new jobs, and many millions in new dollars of revenues to both business and government. A tireless and caring optimist, Nate took a prominent role in community leadership, spearheading charitable activity that has affected, and continues to affect, the lives of the disadvantaged. His passion and energy remains legendary, as he organized, persuaded, funded, led and drove forward many charitable causes, organizations and foundations, where he leaves his footprint for those in need in the future.
He later moved to Sarasota, Florida where he continued his charitable and community wide efforts, as well as property development. Out of the public eye, he took great personal interest in the problems and challenges faced by many individuals with whom he came into contact with, providing help and counsel that changed many lives for the better. Continuing his charitable efforts, one of his favorites, given his great love for animals was Nate’s Animal Honor Rescue, a unique and innovative approach to saving the lives of abandoned dogs and cats. (http://www.nateshonoranimalrescue.org/) If he wasn’t working or riding his bike, he loved to be with his family. Nate worked alongside his children and grandchildren. Whether as a husband, father, grandfather, businessman, partner, leader, advisor, or mentor, Nate Benderson had one of the world’s most engaging personalities. He was one of a kind.
Nathan Benderson passed away in 2012 at the age of 94. |
