Built on four decades in retail real estate
Collarmele Partners brings more than 100 years of combined industry experience to every engagement. Our knowledge comes from real projects and decades on the job, and for our partners it is the difference between solving problems and avoiding them altogether.
We develop properties that shape how people shop.
In the 1980s, consumers rethought how and where they shopped, and the regional mall boom took hold. By the mid-1990s the lifestyle center had emerged, putting work, shopping, dining and entertainment in a single destination. Today's consumer wants mixed-use places rich in retail, dining and services, and convenience for the everyday.
Our principals worked through each of those shifts at the companies that defined them. In 2008 they formed Collarmele Partners to put that experience to work on their own account: a private firm that answers to the real estate, not to a quarterly reporting cycle.
That independence is why the firm moved early into ground-up, essential-goods-anchored retail in the Southeast. After more than a decade of minimal new construction, trade areas there are adding households faster than retail is being built.
Alta Plaza Mall, Panama City · 1.1 million SF, opened 2015
From mall leasing to master development
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1987–1999
Learning the business at the leading mall companies
Joe Tagliola starts in mall leasing at LJ Hooker Developments, then moves to Taubman, The O'Connor Group in New York and the Wellspark Group, working on more than 40 developments and redevelopments including The Westchester, Menlo Park Mall, The Atrium and Cape Cod Mall. Eric Deckinger spends more than 25 years at Leonard L. Farber Inc., nine of them as president, and later leads commercial development on Florida's east coast as Vice President of Opus South.
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1999–2006
Westfield: 68 centers, $3 billion of redevelopment
As Senior Executive Vice President, Joe leads development pre-planning and leasing for Westfield's 68-center U.S. portfolio while more than $3 billion is invested in properties including San Francisco Centre, Century City, Topanga, Valley Fair and West County.
Topanga Plaza, Canoga Park, California
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2006–2008
Turnberry Associates
As President of Retail & Office, Joe oversees the one-million-square-foot Town Square mixed-use project in Las Vegas, the expansion of Aventura Mall and retail pre-planning for the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
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2008
Collarmele Partners is founded in Fort Lauderdale
A fully integrated retail and mixed-use development company, able to run a project from site acquisition through operations, in the United States or abroad.
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2011–2012
Preferred developer for Jared · Yorktown Center
Named a Preferred Developer for Jared The Galleria of Jewelry; the Aventura prototype store opens in September 2012. With Pacific Retail Capital Partners and KKR, the firm acquires the 1.28 million square foot Yorktown Center in Lombard, Illinois, authors its long-term master plan and runs Phase I as operating partner.
Yorktown Center, Lombard, Illinois
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2012–2015
Repositioning and international development
Colonie Center in Albany and West Oaks Mall in Houston are repositioned with institutional partners. In Panama City, the firm master plans and develops the 1.1 million square foot Alta Plaza Mall, which opens in spring 2015, and the retail podium of Soho City Center. In downtown Los Angeles it redesigns Metropolis around retail in 100 days.
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2012–2019
QIC's U.S. retail platform
Joe establishes the U.S. retail investment platform of Queensland Investment Corporation, a global investment manager with $74 billion under management, and leads its $3.6 billion acquisition of 13 super-regional malls.
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2018–2020
Medical office, build-to-suit and public-private work
Aventura Medical Tower, 300,000 SF beside Aventura Hospital, is delivered in 2018. Jared North Attleboro opens in December 2019, nine years after Signet first pursued the market. In 2020 the City of Hollywood executes the development agreement for Park Road Mixed Use.
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2023–Today
Palmetto Crossing
The firm assembles a ±55-acre site at Interstate 75 and Moccasin Wallow Road in Manatee County, secures BJ's Wholesale Club board approval in November 2025 and completes the assemblage in July 2026.
Filled markers are Collarmele Partners projects; open markers are principals' roles at other firms.
What the firm can carry
Every format
Super-regional, lifestyle, enclosed mall, power center, neighborhood, mixed-use, build-to-suit and medical office.
Every stage
Site acquisition, entitlements, capitalization, leasing, design, construction oversight and operations, all handled in house.
Every structure
Initial sponsor, joint venture operating partner or fee master developer, alongside family office, institutional and municipal partners.
Put that experience to work.
Every conversation is with the principals who will run the project.