908 Group is a Tampa real estate developer that concentrates on purpose-built student housing and urban infill apartments near large universities. Co-founders Justin J. Wilson and Alex English run the firm as managing directors, and its development, construction management and asset management staff work out of downtown Tampa. Its portfolio includes The Nine communities near campuses in Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tuscaloosa, Memphis, Louisville and Columbia, along with the StateHouse properties. In October 2026 the firm broke ground on Chapter House UF, a 684-bed, 219-unit community at 920 S.W. Depot Ave. in Gainesville, developed with Batson-Cook Development Co. and an unnamed Fortune 100 insurer. Humphreys & Partners Architects designed it, Pacific Life is the construction lender and opening is planned for summer 2028.
908 Group describes itself with three words rather than a service list: development, construction management, asset management. Each is held in-house, and the sequencing is the point. The same firm that underwrites a site also reviews the construction methods and then sets the leasing strategy once the building opens.
Development, as the firm frames it, is a risk exercise run continuously rather than once. It says it evaluates and reduces risk across a project’s life and completes due diligence and research before pursuing an opportunity at all. Construction management is positioned as problem anticipation, reviewing methods and procedures to keep schedule and budget intact and surfacing construction issues before they arrive. Asset management is the piece most small developers outsource, and 908 keeps it, with leadership reviewing leasing and pricing directly.
The portfolio concentrates on two brands. The Nine accounts for about ten communities and StateHouse for four, out of roughly twenty projects listed. The university pattern behind them is easy to read off the project names: Gainesville, Tuscaloosa, Tallahassee, Memphis, Louisville, Columbia and College Park, plus properties named West Campus and University Walk. Student housing near a large campus is a different underwriting problem from conventional multifamily, since leasing follows an academic calendar and turnover is near total every August.
The firm calls its communities institutional-quality, with high-end finishes and a full amenity package, and describes itself as a boutique development services firm working in urban infill, multifamily and mixed-use. Repositioning sits alongside new development in the stated work, which matters for anyone pitching renovation trades rather than ground-up scopes.
Subcontractors and consultants looking for a way in should know the firm runs lean on public-facing process. There is no dedicated contact page on the site; visitors are pointed to a form, and the Tampa office address appears in a location section on the homepage. Bios for Justin Wilson and Alex English sit at individual URLs rather than a combined team page. An investors page exists separately from capabilities, which suggests capital relationships are handled apart from project procurement.
What the site does not publish is a founding year, a headcount, or any trade association membership, so firms doing diligence on counterparty depth will need to ask directly.
Sources: https://908group.com/, https://908group.com/capabilities, https://908group.com/expertise, https://908group.com/investors
