Ben Jacobson
Founder, ben + burka
New Orleans, LA 70115
Real Estate Broker
Phone (504) 301-1002
Real Estate Broker
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
Property Types
Hospitality, Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Sports & Entertainment, Specialty, Multi-Family, Health Care
Markets
New Orleans/Metairie/Kenner
Languages
English
Bio
Ben has been in the real estate development and brokerage business for over 14 years. He is well versed in project management, construction management, zoning issues, historic tax credits, project finance, state and local economic development incentives, commercial investments, strategic planning, and marketing. He started out his real estate career in 2005 working for the development firm Leeds Holdings Southeast where he performed market analysis, land acquisitions, assessment of project feasibility, as well as solving initial land development issues. He later worked at Corporate Realty where he worked closely with clients looking for investment and development opportunities in and around New Orleans. His experience in putting together development and investment deals makes him an invaluable resource to these types of transactions. Throughout his career, Ben has also started several entrepreneurial ventures. In 2006, he co-founded the fishing apparel brand Old Harbor Outfitters (OHO), which manufactured and sold its products through hundreds of dealers and big box retailers across the country and around the world. Over the course of 4 years, Ben played an integral role in growing OHO into a worldwide, multimillion dollar apparel brand. His roles included CFO, COO, and Director of Online Marketing. He also played an integral role in opening the company’s first two destination retail stores in Martha’s Vineyard and Block Island. Old Harbor Outfitters was sold in 2012. After OHO, Ben started a mobile based polling business Pollbob, where he served as CEO. Over the course of 12 months, he grew the registered user base to over 300,000 and then sold the company to Seattle based market research firm QuestionPro. Ben received his bachelors degree in Real Estate from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
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