About – Ironwood Realty Partners

Who We Are

About Ironwood

Dallas Industrial Real Estate Aerial View of Skyline

Bob Rice, President and Founder, established Ironwood in 2015 after decades of industrial real estate experience.

He founded the company with a singular vision; offer full-service industrial real estate solutions while providing our clients with the highest level of expertise, service, and integrity.

At Ironwood Realty Partners, we offer the unique opportunity to work with a team that provides institutional expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our deep industry knowledge allows us to streamline the decision-making process and reduce lead time from start to finish. We utilize creativity and flexibility to provide unique solutions for our clients and always strive to out-think and out-hustle the competition. As a result, Ironwood has grown to become an industry leader in industrial real estate, servicing some of the largest institutions and equity firms in the country.

Our Core Values

Ironwood Realty Partners was founded with the following core values:

Integrity

We operate with the highest integrity and always do the right thing.

Respect

We value partners that share the same core values.

Service

We utilize creativity and flexibility to provide solutions for our clients.

Knowledge

We always strive to out-think and out-hustle
the competition.

Transparency

We maintain total transparency in every transaction that we make.

Our Team

Our team works to identify and understand your real estate needs in order to present the most effective short and long-term strategy for your assets all while providing our clients with the highest level of expertise, service, and integrity.

Bob Rice

PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

President and Founder Bob Rice has over thirty-four years of experience in the commercial real estate development industry. With a Bachelor’s Degree in marketing from Indiana University, Bob moved to Texas shortly after graduating and hasn’t looked back since. Over the years, he has developed a vibrant reputation as a developer dedicated to doing the right thing. Real Estate is a people business, and he believes it is important to develop long lasting relationships with an old school, face-to-face mentality.

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Since breaking off and starting Ironwood, Bob has worked on numerous projects, developing and leasing over 1M SF of spec industrial space. Over the past 18 years, he has developed over 6M SF of new industrial property with another 4M SF currently in his pipeline. His involvement includes the entire development process including land acquisition, due diligence, entitlements, lease negotiations, construction, and client services.

Bob’s centerpiece right now is Synergy Crossing Logistics Park in the north Fort Worth/Alliance submarket offering 2,884,121 SF of industrial space.

Todd Jones

Principal

Todd is a trusted advisor for many institutions and corporations specializing in the development/leasing and sale of land, office/warehouse, high-tech, office showroom and low-rise office space in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region. Prior to joining Ironwood Realty Advisors Todd was a principal at Younger Partners Prior in their Industrial division which focused on 3rdparty leasing and management for institutional Industrial property owners. Todd owned and operated Lone Star Realty Advisors. Todd previously was responsible for Republic Property Company’s operations in the South-Central U.S. Todd oversaw all aspects of acquisitions, development and market expansion in his region.

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While with Transwestern, Todd negotiated sales and leases exceeding approximately $225 million representing approximately 4,500,000 square feet. Todd was involved in three development projects in 2007 in excess of 1,520,000 square feet. Todd spent nine years with Fults/ONCOR International where he served as a specialist in industrial and office sales and leasing and was later promoted to vice president. He completed approximately 150 transactions with Fults, totaling over $100 million in value. Todd spent three years as construction manager with Trammell Crow Company’s Baltimore division and managed the development of a 50-acre park known as Techwood, which included the construction of 420,000 square feet of shell space and 225,000 square feet of interior improvements.

Brian J. Straley

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Brian’s background is in the ground-up development management for clients across all industry sectors. Specialties include due diligence, site studies, preliminary site planning, pre-construction, design management, and construction management. Prior to Mr. Straley’s work with Ironwood he led the Build-to-Suit specialty for CBRE across North America. Prior to CBRE, he led the Midwest Region for a US.$700M/year national General Contractor and also was the Preconstruction Leader for Duke Realty in Dallas and Atlanta.

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Project History
Manufacturing/Industrial: GE Aviation Engine Plants (Mississippi), Firestone Building Products (Tuscumbia, AL), Caterpillar Skid Steer Plant (Sanford NC), Chase Bank Card & Statement Facility (Coppell, TX), Amazon Fulfillment Facility (Dallas, TX), Del Monte Foods (Fort Worth, TX, Proctor & Gamble, FedEx Facilities (Gadsden, Montgomery, AL), Ulta Beauty E-Commerce Facility (NC), Superior Essex Medium Voltage Wire Tower (NC).

Cold Storage: ProCitrus Network (Baytown, TX), Kraft Freezer Roof Raise (Garland, TX), Dimare Fresh (Fort Worth, TX), Ajinomoto Foods (Lampasas, TX), Bedrock Cold Storage (Austin, TX), Sysco Foods (Lewisville, TX), Del Monte Foods (Fort Worth, TX).

Experience
Mr. Straley has spent most of his career on the contractor/developer side of the business, which creates a unique perspective on value proposition at the infancy stage of projects. He led the Preconstruction Divisions for national office and industrial developers, which allows him to quickly evaluate the proposed costs on a wide variety of projects. His focus on the pre-construction phase of the business will provide numerous value propositions at the most important part of your project, the beginning.

He was also responsible for contract negotiations on all projects in the Central Region and thus provides him an advantage to clients on the best delivery system and contract type based upon the project particulars.

Lastly, because of his wide variety of experience with different product types, he has the ability to do a quick deep dive into the proforma and business solutions behind a project.

Parker Rice

LEASING AND DEVELOPMENT

Parker Rice graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2018. As an Economics major, Parker focused his efforts towards commercial real estate by receiving a Real Estate Certificate and Business Administration minor. While at UT, he was a member of The Undergraduate Real Estate Society where he participated in market tours, career panels, case competitions, and networking events. He currently holds his Texas Real Estate Salesperson License and is a member of NTCAR Young Professionals and TREC Young Guns.

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Parker has joined the Ironwood Realty Partners team to aid in the development, leasing, and underwriting process of industrial real estate in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He has experience in industrial real estate with an internship at Ironwood in 2017 and with CBRE’s Industrial Investment Sales team in 2018.

Outside of the office, Parker enjoys spending time outdoors skiing, fishing, and hunting. Prior to joining Ironwood, he worked in Telluride, CO for the resort, pursuing one of his passions for skiing as he engaged with people from all over the world.

Maura Madden

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Maura Madden began her career in Dallas with Alltex Construction in 1982. She moved from Lexington, Ky after attending University of Kentucky. She began as a leasing agent and trained in all departments plus pre-construction. After Alltex sold their Portfolio of apartment properties she began working for Lincoln Properties where she was in Property Management for 4 years. Maura also spent 5 years in Retail Management in Dallas with Lester Melnick stores.

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