WALTER Z. GRAVES

Principal

Selected as a Detroit Business Magazine Top Lawyers 2012 - 2013, Michigan Super Lawyer in Real Estate for 2008 - 2023 and Best Lawyers in America for 2023. Handled the sale, lease and acquisition of over 10 million square feet of commercial facilities (retail, office, industrial and medical) in 2020-2022.

PRACTICE EMPHASIS

Commercial Real Estate and Business Planning, including all aspects of commercial (and residential) real estate development, including the sale, acquisition, construction, financing, zoning, land use, management, leasing, syndicating, and condominiumizing of retail centers, office buildings, industrial parks, warehouse facilities, medical facilities, manufactured housing, residential and apartment complexes, and the formation and taxation of ownership organizations. Additional concentration in the ownership and operation of international metals warehousing facilities under the auspices of the London Metal Exchange.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

  • Acquira Realty Holdings (Joseph Schimizzi)

  • Broadway Plaza Shopping Center

  • Contracting Resources, LLC

  • Damis Holdings (Leeton Real Estate)

  • Detroit Metro Airport Center

  • Development Resource Group, LLC

  • Display Group

  • Earl Romans & Associates

  • Edward Schulak Equities, LLC

  • Hamame Enterprises

  • Harold Goodman Real Estate Company

  • The Jonna Companies

  • Liberty Property Management Company

  • Market Square Enterprises, LLC

  • Meadowbrook Plaza, LLC

  • Metro International Trade Services LLC (subsidiary of Reuben Brothers)

  • Oasis Golf Center/Bayou Fun Center/Planet X

  • Pomeroy Investment Corporation

  • Principal Global Investors

  • Shamie Development Company

  • Summit Property Management Corporation

  • Team Properties

  • Whelan Metals dba ISTIM Metals

  • W.F. Whelan Co.

  • Whitehall Nursing Centers, LLC

  • Woodward Investment Properties LLC

EDUCATION

  • Emory University (BA 1977, with honors)

  • University of Michigan Law School
    (JD 1980)

PRIOR AFFILIATIONS

  • Clark, Klein & Beaumont, Detroit, Michigan

  • Miro, Miro & Weiner, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

AWARDS

  • Best Lawyers in America 2023

  • Michigan Super Lawyer in Real Estate - 2008 - 2023

  • Detroit Business Magazine Top Lawyers 2012, 2013

  • Super Lawers Business Edition - 2011, 2012

  • Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition - 2009, 2010

  • Avvo Rating: Superb

MEMBERSHIPS

  • MI State Bar - Real Property Law Section

  • M State Bar - Business Law Section

  • Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce

  • Alpha Epsilon Pi - Lifetime Member