Griffin Partners

Griffin Partners is a Houston commercial real estate investment, development and property management firm that Fred Griffin founded in 1980 as a development and construction management shop. It started buying and managing office buildings in 1995 and has run formal investment management since 1998. The firm says it’s been involved with 79 assets totaling 18 million square feet and more than $2.5 billion in value, with today’s focus on value-add infill office and light industrial. Its newest development is for a credit union. Griffin is developing Wellby Financial’s five-story, 102,246-square-foot tilt-wall headquarters near Baybrook Mall in Friendswood, which broke ground Oct. 29 with Harvey Cleary as general contractor and Powers Brown Architecture as designer.