
He started SimonCRE in a bruised market with no outside equity. Sixteen years later, Joshua Simon is still making the unfashionable case that physical retail is civic infrastructure with a cash register.
New shopping centers are expensive, slow and unfashionable. SimonCRE's answer is a short ownership clock, municipal dealmaking and the stubborn belief that a good Target can still rearrange a town.
A practicing heart doctor built Encore Enterprises into a diversified real estate and private equity firm that develops apartments, runs emergency rooms and manages dental clinics - all from one office off the Dallas Parkway.