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Oct. 17, 2024–Philip Burton / President & CEO, Burton Property Group

Philip Burton is the CEO of Burton Property Group (BPG), a private regional commercial real estate investment, development, and management firm.  A leader in real estate development in the southeast, BPG is focused on value creation through both ground-up projects and value-add opportunities. With established institutional and client relationships, BPG has the capacity to tackle large-scale projects in a broad spectrum of real estate classes.

Since 2012, Burton Property Group has executed nearly $1 billion in real estate projects around the southeast and has established a $1+ billion pipeline of future projects. BPG’s track record over the last decade has cemented the firm’s reputation as a market expert and industry leader.

In 2021, Burton Property Group announced its largest project to date, the South Alabama Logistics Park (SALP). A 1,300 acre master-planned industrial park that can contain as much as 12 million square feet of industrial space, SALP is the largest warehousing and distribution facility between Texas and Georgia.

Burton Property Group is also developing River Walk Plaza in downtown Mobile. River Walk Plaza will be Mobile’s only riverfront mixed-use hospitality, hotel, office, and residential development.

A Mobile native, Philip attended the University of South Alabama. He is a founding board member of the Beverly Burton Scholarship Trust, board member of the University of South Alabama’s Foundation for Research and Commercialization, and board member of YPO Southern Sands Chapter.

He lives in Mobile with his wife, Rachel, and their two sons.