Founded in 2007 by Brad DeHays, Connect Real Estate specializes in real estate portfolio management. Connect provides development, management and brokerage services for residential and commercial real estate while partnering with Connect Construction to stabilize and maintain real estate assets. The firm’s vertically integrated platform includes transaction services, asset management and property management. Connect Real Estate has made its name in Columbus as an urban-infill developer and the foremost authority in the region on the adaptive reuse and preservation of historic properties. Connect has demonstrated time and again its commitment to restoring buildings of historical value to Central Ohio neighborhoods and has been lauded by community leaders for its removal of urban blight and vision in taking on difficult rehabilitation projects other development companies would deem too challenging to pursue. The development team at Connect Real Estate believes in the importance of honoring history and takes pride in reviving relics of the past and making them operational for the 21st century.