JD Salazar

Managing Principal at Champion Realty Advisors

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JD Salazar is the Managing Principal of Champion, responsible for the sourcing and acquiring opportunities for the Company throughout major consumption zones and transportation centers in the United States. JD founded Champion in 1997, which went on to become one of the most successful 100% Hispanic owned commercial real estate brokerage companies in the US. JD's career in real estate spans 42 years and includes involvement in over 20 million square feet of industrial lease and sale transactions, and the development of four major Class A business parks in the Chicago Area. JD has extensive experience in sourcing and acquiring transportation-related properties and outdoor storage properties. Prior to re­ branding Champion into an Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) acquisition, development and management company, JD was one of the two founding members of Industrial Outdoor Ventures (“IOV”). At IOV, JD was a member of the investment Committee and one of five members of the Board of Directors. While at IOV, JD sourced over 50% of the company's acquisitions.

In 2019 JD guided Champion into a strategic investment relationship with Timber Hill Group (“THG”). Since then, Champion and THG have invested over $500,000,000 in IOS properties in Miami FL, Jacksonville FL, Memphis TN, Dallas, Ft. Worth and Laredo, TX. Investments include managed truck parking yards, fleet yards, container yards, freight terminals and transload facilities. Champion also owns warehouses, freight terminals and fleet yards in the Greater Chicago area, where the family office is located.

JD is a member of the Warehouse Education and Research Council ("WERC") and The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ("CSCMP”). JD has been involved in urban and international Christian Missionary outreach. Outreach that includes operational and financial support for the Deborah House Project in Timisoara Romania, Stephens Children in Cairo Egypt and Musalaha in the West Bank of Israel.

JD earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Energy and Power Systems from the University of New Mexico and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.