Place Projects

About Place Projects

Place Projects is a real estate operator headquartered in Miami, FL. Place Projects operates in Miami - Ft. Lauderdale - West Palm Beach - South Florida and Tampa - St. Petersburg, Florida. Its investment focus is on Hospitality, Multifamily - Ground-up and Placemaking.

Place Projects is a Miami-based real estate investment and development firm led by founder and managing principal Joe Furst. The company was founded in 2017, giving it about 9 years in operation, and it operates as a small firm with an estimated team size of 2–10 employees. Its portfolio is concentrated in Florida, with work tied to Miami, West Palm Beach, Doral, Brickell, and St. Petersburg. The firm focuses on neighborhood-scale real estate with an emphasis on mixed-use, residential, commercial, and retail projects. Its work typically combines ground-up development, adaptive reuse, entitlement strategy, tenant curation, and planning. Place Projects is known for operating-partner roles and for projects that blend real estate execution with public-realm and community-oriented development. Its current track record includes major urban district work such as Nora in West Palm Beach, along with other projects across South Florida and the Tampa Bay region.

Principals at Place Projects