***
Veteran retail growth & development executive—most recently of Floor & Decor—will unify Partners’ best-in-class services and development business into one integrated package

Houston, TX – September 1, 2026 – Partners Real Estate, a private partnership-led, fully-integrated commercial real estate firm, today unveiled a new Occupier Growth & Development offering and named highly-regarded retail growth and development executive Bryan Dodge to lead it as President. He will be based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and report to Jon Silberman, Partners’ CEO.With this hire, Partners introduces a new offering for its clients designed to help high-growth occupiers scale new development programs profitably and deliberately, with the strategy and structure to sustain it. The program will bring together strategic planning to chart long-term real estate and growth plans for new development locations; site selection built around each occupier’s specific needs; development and build-out from design through construction; and the ongoing management that keeps a property running well after it opens. Under Mr. Dodge’s leadership, Partners combines these four disciplines into one offering, giving occupiers a single point of contact right as their new development needs are stretching across more service requirements than ever.

“Bryan knows how to turn a growth strategy into real results, and he does it by building teams that deliver without missing a beat,” said Jon Silberman, CEO of Partners. “We build our platform around where our clients are, and what they are telling us is that they would rather not hire four firms to cover one assignment and manage the handoffs in between. This focused occupier development practice lets us meet clients wherever they are in their new site development program and stay with them through the rest of it. Bryan has spent his career on the client side of that equation, carrying the growth targets and owning the real estate decisions that had to deliver them, and that is the perspective we wanted leading this program. Standing it up under him reflects both his record and our long-term commitment to this business.”

Before joining Partners, Mr. Dodge spent 25 years in retail growth and development leadership, most recently as Chief Real Estate and Business Development Officer at Floor & Decor. He spearheaded the company’s real estate and development program that drove its transformative growth and national expansion.

Prior to Floor & Decor, Mr. Dodge led real estate strategy through the Office Depot–OfficeMax merger, where his team drove substantial gains in operating income and executed some of the company’s fastest international store openings, including across the Caribbean.

“Real estate should never be the thing that slows a company down,” said Mr. Dodge. “I have sat in the seat where a store has to open on a date that was committed to long before the site was ready, and whether it opens on time usually comes down to how many firms are involved and how well they talk to each other. Occupiers need one partner who can walk with them from the first strategy conversation all the way through construction and the years after it. Partners already has the brokerage, site selection, development and management capabilities in house, and this program puts a team behind it that stays accountable from start to finish. That has been my mission for years, and this is the platform to do it at scale.”