Who We Are
$200M+
Assets under Management
17+
Years in Business
1.5M+
Square Feet Owned
The Barlington Group was founded by Bill Fuller and Martin Pinilla in 2004, as an urban real estate development company committed to revitalizing neighborhoods within Greater Miami and across 24 states.
Over the last two decades, Barlington has acquired, developed and managed commercial projects with a value exceeding $250 million. Projects have focused on asset repositioning, ranging from hotel, retail, multi-family, office and mixed-use buildings.
Barlington specializes in buying properties that allow for value creation by improving structures and programming them with curated tenants – creating a sum greater than the individual parts.
Adaptive re-use projects include: Copper Door BNB in Overtown, Kroma Arts Space in Coconut Grove and Futurama Arts Marketplace, Calle Ocho Goodwill and the soon to open Tower Hotel – all in Little Havana.
The company has active investments in local hospitality experiences and local businesses: Blackbird Ordinary, Union Beer, Toasted Bagelry, Taquerias El Mexicano and Brickell Mattress.
Creating value through neighborhood curation.
Barlington builds value by investing in legacy properties and businesses in historic neighborhoods in Greater Miami and across 24 states.
The firm’s investment in and dedication to the culture, people, and energy of Little Havana has resulted in an unprecedented revitalization of the once-neglected neighborhood. Barlington’s success stories have not only sparked huge increases in value along the famous Calle Ocho corridor but have also garnered national broadcast and print coverage of both Barlington’s winning approach and the culturally-rich neighborhood.
Barlington Group owns and manages over 1.5 million square feet of retail, office, and hotel properties in Greater Miami. Most recently, with the execution of a NNN Investment Strategy, Barlington has acquired 45 freestanding Dollar General stores across 24 states, bringing their assets under management to over 1.5 million across the United States.
It continues to add value to assets by finding unique tenants for properties and growing eclectic small businesses that add character to revitalized corridors. Barlington’s principals are proficient in all aspects of real estate including: acquisitions, financing, development and management.
The Barlington Team further benefits from Principal Bill Fuller’s experience as co-founder of Madroom Hospitality, which has combined twenty-first-century food & beverage expertise with historic preservation to create a trio of winning concepts. The reinvented Ball & Chain – a Little Havana nightclub dating back to the 1930s that hosted Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Chet Baker – is the beating heart of Calle Ocho tourism. Madroom also preserved Taquerias El Mexicano, a Calle Ocho landmark since 1985, and developed the Los Altos lounge space above it.
In fewer than two decades, Barlington has written the book on buying undervalued properties and repositioning them as hospitality, art, and culture hubs spurring revitalization in historically Cuban American Little Havana, African American Overtown, and Bahamian-American Coconut Grove.