Real estate has been Mark MacDonald’s focus for the 25 year span of his career. Presently, Mr. MacDonald is the CEO of Arcadia Real Estate Advisors, which he founded in 2012. As a member of the firm’s executive team, he oversees all aspects of the firm’s ?daily operations, as well as its investment committee. Arcadia advises investors in analyzing and managing real estate investments and has specific expertise in the area of land development. Arcadia has become a leader in positioning investments to their highest and best use through proper foresight, planning, entitlement, engineering, and construction management services. Since 1990, Mr. MacDonald has advised institutional owners in the investment of over $4 billion of real estate transactions in the southeastern United States.
Prior to forming Arcadia, Mr. MacDonald served as Managing Director of Investments for Stratford Land Fund, where he was responsible for identifying, acquiring and asset managing strategic land investments located in North and South Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia. In this capacity, he invested over $175 million of new equity for Stratford Land Funds.
Prior to joining Stratford Land, he served as Managing Director of Investments for Raleigh-based Highwood’s Properties, one of the nation’s largest fully integrated real estate operating companies, where he was responsible for the development and execution of the firm’s investment strategy. While at Highwood’s, Mr. MacDonald managed over $4 billion of office, industrial, retail, multifamily and land investment transactions, including $1 billion of joint venture investments with institutional partners. Prior to Highwood’s, he was a real estate broker with CB Richard Ellis in the Virginia market representing institutional owners of office, retail, and industrial buildings in lease and investment sales transactions. Mr. MacDonald has a bachelor’s degree with a major in Marketing and a minor in Economics from James Madison University and a Masters of Business Administration from Duke’s University’s Fuqua School of Business with a concentration in Finance. He was born in Ontario, Canada, was raised in Richmond, VA and currently resides in Raleigh. NC.?
