Biography
EXECUTIVE BIOGRAPHY
Strategic Growth Group, Inc. is a boutique real estate consulting firm that has provided services for over $1 billion
of commercial real estate properties in the shopping center, hotel and resort real estate sectors across the nation.
John Nagle has been in the real estate business for over 30 years as an owner, developer, manager and
broker. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Growth Capital Advisors and Strategic
Growth Retail, John Nagle has generated over $1 billion in real estate sales, over 3 million square feet
of retail tenant leasing activity and has secured over $7 billion in commitments of debt and equity funding
for commercial real estate.
Prior to Founding Strategic Growth Capital Advisors and Strategic Growth Retail, John Nagle was Co-
Founder, Chief Operating Officer and Principal of Capital Growth Properties, Inc. and Capital Growth
Madison Marquette, LLC a private shopping center real estate development and management company,
where he was responsible for rapidly growing the third-party management services portfolio from zero to
over $1.3 billion in assets in less than 2 years and owned retail real estate portfolio to a value in excess
of $76 million.
John Nagle was Co-Founder and Principal of Imagine Resorts & Hotels; Co-Founder, Chief Operating
Officer and Principal of The Great Lakes Companies (predecessor to Great Wolf Resorts). The Great
Lakes Companies, Inc. (GLC) was founded in 1995 as a diversified real estate company with a focus on
hotel and indoor waterpark resort development and management, land development and assisted-living
and affordable senior housing. Less than 10 years later, the company had grown into a real estate
conglomerate with over 4,000 employees and a combined asset value exceeding one billion dollars. In
December, 2004 GLC successfully spun off the resort portfolio in an $800 million enterprise value IPO,
as Great Wolf Resorts (NASDAQ:WOLF). Great Wolf was, and remains, the largest owner, operator and
developer of indoor waterpark resorts in North America, and currently has 18 resorts.
John Nagle served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Board, Director of Hotel Operations, Vice
President of Leasing and Principal of General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP), during which time he
completed sale of 19 malls for $800 million, which at the time was the largest single asset real estate
transaction in history. GGP grew to be the country’s second-largest developer and manager of regional
enclosed shopping malls, largest manager of institutionally owned assets and world’s fifth largest owner
of real estate of any kind by square footage with over 127 retail properties comprised of over 121 million
square feet of GLA. John Nagle pioneered the concept of the "Portfolio Review", which has now become
an industry standard. The Portfolio Review offers established national brands, regional operators and
entrepreneurs looking to enter markets an opportunity to evaluate different property types and locations
across the portfolio to find the best fit for their needs in one convenient session.
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