Box Equities

The entrepreneurial Dabah family has entered the red-hot industrial real estate market with the formation of New York based private real estate investment firm Box Equities. The new company is led by Haim Dabah, chairman and cofounder, and his son Mac Dabah, cofounder and managing director. Michael Dabah, serves as general counsel, and Ori Schwartz is cofounder and director of acquisitions.

Haim Dabah and his family have a long history of starting, investing and running businesses in fashion, retail and technology, including investments in Stylitics, Kidbox and Talk Space, and formerly Regatta, which developed labels for retailers including Simply Vera by Vera Wang for Kohl’s, and Karl Lagerfeld for Macy’s.

Box Equities is taking an unusual approach to warehouse property as the industry shifts in reaction to the health crisis. The company is capitalizing on the growing need for warehouse and industrial space and the post-pandemic reality of e-commerce’s ascent and brick-and-mortar’s decline.

Box is focused on secondary markets, such as Dublin, Ga., rather than major markets like Secaucus or Edison, N.J., or New York City. The company is not pursuing last-mile distribution facilities, the kind that Amazon needs for speedy delivery close to customers, but doesn’t exclude the possibility.