Southwest Value Partners (SWVP) is an American privately held real estate investment company. It is headquartered in

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, with an office in

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, US. SWVP was founded in 1990 by

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and

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; Sarver remained a principal, with the managing partners being Mark Schlossberg and Cary Mack. In 1995, SWVP purchased the Emerald Plaza in

; the company controlled almost 30% of the Class A office space in downtown San Diego. In 2004, SWVP sold the Emerald Plaza and two other San Diego office buildings to Santa Ana real estate firm Triple Net Properties for $274.5 million. In December 2017, SWVP bought the Bank of America Center and two other towers in downtown

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from

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for more than $200 million. In 2018, SWVP demolished the Draper Tower and the Sullivan Tower in

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to develop Nashville Yards, the site of

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's projected Operations Center of Excellence. In August 2019, SVP "made a meaningful financial commitment on a multiyear basis" to the

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, with relevant events planned at Nashville Yards. In June 2020, SWVP confirmed it had reached a deal to acquire the Union Station Hotel in Nashville.

References

External links

List of past acquisitions, with images
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