Contact David:
C: 404-317-1315
F: 404 601-4651
DAVID@SSGREALTYPARTNERS.COM
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Career Summary & Current Responsibilities
In 1970, following his college graduation, David began his real estate career as a Land Specialist in the Land Department of the Georgia Power Company, selling, leasing and analyzing the Company’s land holdings. Thus began a 50+ year career, which has focused primarily on land marketing, investment & development.
David has successfully negotiated a number of Atlanta’s most significant land and investment properties transactions, including the ground lease for IBM’s 50-story office tower in Midtown Atlanta; the acquisition of Alltel’s 68 acre regional headquarters campus in Alpharetta; the land assemblage of the 25-acre Securities Centre office park in Buckhead (now Ameris Bank Center); and the sale of the three city block Peachtree Portal Property in Downtown Atlanta, which was recognized as the Atlanta Business Chronicle 2003 Land Deal of the Year.
In 2011, David successfully completed the assemblage of the ~1300-acre LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center mixed-use development, located just north of Atlanta. The LakePoint Project (featuring one of America’s largest amateur & youth sports complexes, with indoor & outdoor sports venues valued at over $100 million) now attracts over three million visitors annually and has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including Bartow County’s Economic Development Deal of the Century and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Best of Atlanta Real Estate Award (Best Special Use/Mixed Use Development). David also received the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors’ Alvin B. Cates Award, recognizing the LakePoint land assemblage as Atlanta’s Most Outstanding Real Estate Transaction in 2011.
As a corporate real estate advisor, David has represented clients on numerous national and regional headquarters relocations and build-to-suit requirements throughout the United States, which collectively total well in excess of one million square feet of space.
A frequent speaker and seminar panelist on land marketing and land investment services, David has also represented numerous banking, office, hotel, retail, residential and industrial/logistics users and developers in site acquisition, disposition and land assemblage assignments.
David is married to Ginny Branch, and their family includes three daughters and two granddaughters.
He is a graduate of Davidson College with a BA in English/Creative Writing, where he played both football and rugby.
EDUCATION
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina Bachelor of Arts, English, 1970
ORGANIZATIONS & AWARDS
Past President – Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (ACBR)
ACBR’s Realtor of the Year 1991
ACBR’s President’s Award 2023
ACBR’s Alvin B. Cates Award 2011 (Commercial Real Estate Transaction of the Year)
ACBR’s Top Ten Land Broker’s Award (#3 in 2011)
Recipient – Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Land Deal of the Year in 2003 and 2016
Urban Land Institute