Donald Silverman, Esq.
dsilverman@margauxrealty.com
Managing Partner

As Managing Principal for closely-held, Margaux Texas Ventures, Inc., Donald Silverman has directed all investment and new development activities for Margaux Realty and Margaux Development Company since 1990.  In this capacity, he has orchestrated the development and acquisition of retail shopping centers, mixed-use development, multi-family projects and single-family subdivisions.

In addition to identifying each opportunity, he has negotiated the terms of purchase and development for each new project.  The aggregate value of Silverman's real property transactions is in excess of $500,000,000.                       

For the past twelve years, Mr. Silverman has focused on retail development in the state of Texas and other southwestern states. Silverman has been responsible for comprehensive development activities in conjunction with community, strip shopping centers and regional power centers as well as larger, master planned, mixed use developments.   As the Southwest Development Partner, while affiliated with the Midland Group, Quadrant Properties, and the Woodmont Companies, and as a consultant for Regency Centers, he was the Principal in charge of the development of a number of retail projects.  For many years he has been the most prolific developer of Kroger anchored centers in the DFW market, Silverman has developed and redeveloped eleven Kroger Signature store anchored shopping centers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area over the past eleven years. 

Margaux Development Company, under Silverman's leadership, is currently in the process of pre-development or construction on a number of new projects to be anchored by retail segment leaders as well as multiple-use planned developments.

Prior to establishing Margaux Texas Ventures, Inc., Mr. Silverman was the principal operating officer for a real estate merchant banking firm, KALS Realty Holdings, chartered to acquire income producing commercial real estate.  Mr. Silverman was also affiliated with Metropolitan Structures, and VMS Realty Partners in Chicago, Illinois and Consolidated Capital Companies, Emeryville, California.

A Boston University School of Law Graduate Tax Program graduate, Silverman also has a J.D. degree from the New England School of Law, an M.B.A. from Boston College and a B.A. from Boston University.  He has Bar Admissions in the states of Massachusetts, Florida and California.  Silverman is also a licensed real estate broker in the states of Texas and Massachusetts.

In addition to being published in the RESSI Review and The Real Estate Syndicator, Mr. Silverman received the Dallas Business Journal, "Best New Retail Development of the Year" award in 1996.