Six Acre Capital is a real estate developer, owner and operator launched in 2020 by Jake Borden and Mark Lansman. Leveraging the Principals’ prior institutional experience coupled with a boots-on-the-ground operational mentality, Six Acre’s primary focus is acquiring, repositioning, and developing multifamily and mixed-use assets. Implementing a hyper-focused geographic investment approach, Six Acre pursues opportunities strictly in Philadelphia and the Tri-State Region, allowing for localized investing through hands-on execution.

Since inception, the firm has executed projects with a total value of +/-$100M. Notably, Six Acre’s debut, flagship development, 1525 North American Street (“Ray Philly”), a ground-up, mixed-used project, received Co-Star’s 2024 Impact Award for Multifamily Development of the Year in Philadelphia.

Six Acre’s Principals were most recently Vice Presidents with NYC-based Churchill Real Estate Holdings. At Churchill, the Principals closed over $1.5bn in debt transactions and equity investments. This included spearheading development efforts for NYC development projects and leading acquisitions/execution of several multifamily and mixed-use properties. The Principals were also an integral part of the company’s structured credit originations platform, where they executed over 30 acquisition, bridge, and construction loans, and purchased non-performing, defaulted notes during their time with the firm.

Our Approach

Six Acres’ Principals have worn many different hats, working in a variety of disciplines in the industry including acquisitions, asset management, construction, and capital markets. The Company prides itself on unique structuring and problem-solving, thinking outside-of-the-box to unlock value in creating superior risk-adjusted returns for its partners and investors.

Guiding Principles

Maintain a Geographic Micro-Focus

We strive to know every owner, asset, trade, metric, community stakeholder, and market participant. Dipping toes into new markets is not something we entertain without extensive research and conviction.

Balance Immediate Returns & Downside Protection

We compromise on yield in pursuing defensive markets with strong investor demand to enhance liquidity and mitigate exit risk.

Exhaustive Iterations in Planning Phase

We distinguish ourselves from the competition by employing innovative and fresh, yet contextual design and programming to avoid becoming a commoditized product.

Community Collaboration

We foster strong relationships with local stakeholders throughout the design and development process, and understand the needs of the communities we build and own within.