The family-owned landlord has built a Western real estate business around companies that need room to make, mend and move things. Its wager: smaller industrial tenants are worth the extra work.
Patriot Holdings built a national portfolio from an old-fashioned edge: call property owners, understand the awkward problem behind each sale, then operate the asset yourself. Its bet is that boring buildings can become a durable wealth machine when the buyer answers the phone and stays for the hard part.