Real Estate Practice

Jim Cotey, Forrest Ragsdale, Charlotte McCoy and Matt Mashburn

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The firm's real estate attorneys assist owners, developers, investors, municipalities and general business clients throughout the nation in land acquisition, zoning, development and leasing matters. Stites & Harbison has also acquired significant experience in the areas of real estate redevelopment, conduit lending, conservation easements and community development and revitalization.

The attorneys in the firm's Real Estate Service Group include fellows of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America and Tier 1 lawyers in Chambers USA, "America's Leading Lawyers for Business."

We strive to understand our clients' businesses in order to better assist them in achieving their objectives. We place great emphasis on devising creative solutions to problems. The group staffs each project efficiently, using a team approach to give clients comprehensive counseling. Through the integration of the firm's banking, business services, corporate, private equity, tax, construction, intellectual property, environmental and litigation practices, clients enjoy the results of the team's experience.

Lenders, including SunTrust Bank, Regions Bank, Fidelity Bank, Main Street Bank and JPMorgan, count on Stites & Harbison to "close the deal" on commercial and residential loans. For example, the firm closed a $40 million loan for Uptown Square at Lindbergh Station in Atlanta, a live-work-play area built around a MARTA train station. Stites & Harbison also recently handled a $32 million loan for the construction of a new condominium project in Panama City, Fla. Both of these projects were financed by government issued bonds enhanced by a letter of credit from Regions Bank.

In addition to working in conventional real estate areas, Stites & Harbison has worked extensively in all aspects of property acquisition, relocation and condemnation law in its role as counsel for the expansion of Louisville's primary airport and as condemnation counsel for the redevelopment of Louisville's riverfront. Through its representation of the rehabilitator of Kentucky's largest domestic insurance company, the firm has handled the review, packaging and disposition of real estate assets of a major institutional lender. The real estate practice group has also gained extensive experience in assembling large tracts of industrial property for major industries locating in Kentucky.

For a closer look at the work of the Real Estate Service Group, please click on the links below:

  • Eastpoint Business Center, Jefferson County, Ky.
  • Historic Scottish Rite, Decatur, Ga.
  • Indiana-American Water Company, Jeffersonville, Ind.
  • Kentucky Broad Street Portfolio Project, Louisville
  • Laurel House, Nashville
  • Louisville Slugger Museum
  • Park DuValle Revitalization Program, Louisville
  • SunTrust Center, Nashville
  • Wallace Farm Easement, Prospect, Ky.
  • Waterfront Park, Louisville