Our team

The people behind BSI

Josh Schaap, Christopher “C.” Kendrick and Lindsey W. Cooper Jr. have worked together for years and serve as general partners across a range of real estate investments and ventures. Nick Maylander and Jack Crenca of Charleston Commercial, along with Lamar Bonaparte, Darren Finan and Luke Lucas, serve as co-general partners with us on various deals, and Mary Fran Blanchard leads investor relations.

Why BSI

How we work with our partners

We invest alongside our partners

Our principals put their own capital into the projects we sponsor, next to the people who invest with us.

A local operating platform

Through Charleston Commercial, our brokerage, property management and construction administration teams work under one roof in Charleston.

Relationship-first, long-term ownership

We work with people we know, and we buy properties with the aim of holding them over the long term.

Disciplined underwriting

We look at every property block by block and number by number before we bring it to anyone.

Who we are

Broad Street Investments (BSI) is the investment affiliate of Charleston Commercial, a Charleston brokerage, leasing, property management and development firm. Charleston Commercial finds, leases and manages real estate; BSI is how its principals invest in it.

We know our market block by block, and we stay involved in the properties we own long after the closing.

How we work

Our investor relationships begin with real conversations, not marketing. We keep things in writing and we explain the reasoning behind our decisions.

What we value

Clarity and candor

Plain language, honest numbers and a written record, so that everyone understands the same thing.

Confidentiality

Information about the people we work with stays private.

Partners

Josh Schaap

Managing Director, Charleston Commercial · General Partner

Josh runs Charleston Commercial day to day, overseeing brokerage, leasing, property management and investment management. He co-founded Charleston Commercial with C. Kendrick and, with Kendrick and Lindsey Cooper, serves as a general partner across various real estate investments and ventures.

Over more than a decade in Charleston commercial real estate, Josh has worked as a broker, an operator and property manager, and a principal investor. Earlier in his career he served as managing director and broker-in-charge of a national brokerage's commercial office in Charleston. He invests his own capital alongside the people he works with.

Christopher “C.” Kendrick

Co-Founder and Partner, Charleston Commercial · General Partner

Kendrick co-founded Charleston Commercial with Josh, and the two have worked side by side in Charleston commercial real estate since at least 2015. A seasoned commercial real estate consultant focused on urban mixed-use projects, he has experience across most asset classes, including retail, hospitality, multifamily, office, healthcare, parking and industrial, along with entitlement and development, and he has represented buyers and handled leasing on downtown Charleston retail properties.

Together with Josh, he has assembled and entitled several downtown Charleston redevelopment projects, often bringing together parcels from multiple owners. At Charleston Commercial he concentrates on sourcing and negotiating acquisitions and on principal-level transactions, and with Josh and Lindsey he serves as a general partner across various real estate investments and ventures. Kendrick is a graduate of James Madison University.

Lindsey W. Cooper Jr.

Partner and Broker-in-Charge, Charleston Commercial · General Partner

Lindsey is a partner in Charleston Commercial, where he serves as broker-in-charge, and with Josh and Kendrick he serves as a general partner across various real estate investments and ventures. He is the founder of Cooper | Tierney, a Charleston law firm whose practice spans tax controversy and taxation, corporate law, business acquisitions, commercial litigation and real estate.

Before founding the firm, he served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, representing the IRS in federal courts, and received the Department’s Outstanding Attorney Award in 2004. Today he advises businesses and individuals on tax and corporate transactions. Lindsey earned his J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law and his B.S. from Sewanee: The University of the South. He is admitted in South Carolina, Tennessee and the District of Columbia, as well as before the U.S. Tax Court and the Fourth Circuit.

Co-general partners and investor relations

Nick Maylander

Vice President, Brokerage & Development, Charleston Commercial · Co-General Partner

Nick joined Charleston Commercial in 2019 and serves as a co-general partner on various real estate investments alongside the partners. He works on acquisitions, dispositions and leasing across a range of asset classes, for clients from local owners to institutions, and has taken on a growing role in the firm’s operations, marketing and systems.

Before Charleston Commercial, Nick worked in finance at Fidelity Investments and Wells Fargo Advisors, a background he brings to underwriting, capital markets and deal structuring. He has guided projects through complex entitlement processes in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester Counties. Nick studied finance and commercial real estate at the College of Charleston.

Jack Crenca

Vice President, Brokerage, Charleston Commercial · Co-General Partner

Jack has worked alongside Josh since 2015, when he joined him at KW Commercial in Charleston, and serves as a co-general partner on various real estate investments alongside the partners. He has specialized in retail and restaurant, multifamily, hospitality, medical office and office, land assemblage and development, on acquisitions, dispositions and leasing.

His focus is the Charleston market, particularly downtown, and he has worked on transactions from North Carolina to Florida for clients ranging from local buyers to international investors and operators, many through long-term, off-market relationships. Jack graduated cum laude from the College of Charleston in 2015 with a degree in business finance.

Lamar Bonaparte

Founder, Republic Hospitality · Principal, King West Capital · Co-General Partner

A Charleston native, Lamar founded Republic Development and Management Group in 2011 and built it into Republic Hospitality, the King Street group behind Republic Garden & Lounge, Bourbon N’ Bubbles and Lamar’s Sporting Club. He brings more than 20 years of experience in hospitality, entertainment and real estate, and launched his own local real estate investment and development company before Republic.

Through King West Capital, Lamar serves as a co-general partner with the BSI partners on select investments. He earned his degree in accounting from South Carolina State University.

Darren Finan

Owner & Broker-in-Charge, Lowcountry Property Team · Co-General Partner

Darren leads Lowcountry Property Team, the Charleston real estate brokerage he founded in 2019, and owns Riley Ventures, which buys and renovates distressed properties. Before launching his own firm he spent more than seven years as a REALTOR® with Keller Williams in Charleston.

Darren serves as a co-general partner with BSI on select investments and brings a hands-on, deal-by-deal understanding of the Lowcountry market to the partnership.

Thomas L. “Luke” Lucas III

Family Physician, Colonial Healthcare · Lawman Holdings · Co-General Partner

Dr. Lucas is a board-certified family medicine physician who sees patients at Colonial Healthcare’s family practice in Sumter, SC. He studied history and French at Mercer University, earned his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, and completed his family medicine residency at AnMed Health in Anderson, SC. He also served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer.

Through Lawman Holdings, Luke serves as a co-general partner with BSI on select Charleston real estate investments alongside Josh, Kendrick and Lindsey.

Mary Fran Blanchard

Investor Relations, Broad Street Investments

Mary Fran leads investor relations for Broad Street Investments. She is the first point of contact for people who register for our investor portal, helps them set up their portal access, and prepares investor reporting. Reach her at ir@charlestoncommercial.com.

Before joining BSI, Mary Fran was a senior investment analyst at Madison Capital Group, a real estate investment and development firm, and earlier worked as a financial analyst covering public companies and commercial real estate. She began her career as a professional golfer on the LPGA Symetra Tour after playing at the University of South Carolina, where she earned a B.S. in Business Management and Marketing. She also holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the College of Charleston.

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