We buy and stabilize single-story retail, industrial, and flex properties nationwide

Columbia Creek started with Ivan and Alex working together before the firm existed. Ivan began investing in real estate in 2013, and first worked with Alex around 2017 as an investor in one of Alex's residential flips.

Alex brought two decades of construction experience, including building a Seattle remodeling company with more than forty full-time employees and projected annual revenue approaching $20 million. Ivan had worked on product and operations at Disney, Microsoft, and Samsung, and built a fintech platform that scaled to more than four million monthly users.

In 2020, Ivan acquired the first parcel for a planned business to mass-manufacture luxury modular homes. Ivan and Alex partnered up in 2021, acquired additional land, and expanded into rural residential land development, including subdivision and land-flip projects that are still being completed today.

That hands-on development work eventually led Columbia Creek toward its current focus: buying and stabilizing retail, industrial, and flex properties nationwide. The same work shows up in the business today: underwriting carefully, staying close to brokers and sellers, and solving the property-level problems that affect leasing, budgets, and tenant experience.

Garvit Dhingra joined the team with an electrical engineering degree from Texas A&M and a background in technology. Garvit is responsible for the process from deal screening and underwriting through closing. He reviews OMs, T12s, rent rolls, leases, title, survey, zoning, lender requests, third-party reports, and closing checklists, and coordinates with brokers, attorneys, lenders, inspectors, insurance brokers, and property managers.