In 1998, James A. LeBeau founded and commenced service as the President of Standard Capital, a Multi-housing & Commercial Real Estate financing firm. Mr. LeBeau primarily engages in the origination, analysis, negotiation, and placement of commercial mortgage loans, including property acquisitions, permanent long-term debt, bridge loans, construction financing, and “value-added” loan structures on existing and proposed retail centers, apartment complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, land, and full-service flagged or boutique hotels and condos.
Clients (“the Borrower”) secure both fixed and variable interest rates. Clients range from familiar well-known families, to private individuals, to partnerships, to limited liability companies, to Corporations specifically set up for real estate ownership and development. Mr. LeBeau also assists clients on dispositions of assets, the timely review of their loan documents post-closing, the entitlement process, and securing construction draws during build-out phases.
Over the past ten years, Mr. LeBeau and his company arranged, on behalf of borrowers, over $200 million in commercial real estate loans, in 78 transactions located throughout the Southwest and in the Tucson & Phoenix cities (Pima & Maricopa counties), in the state of Arizona, in the United States of America. Mr. LeBeau currently focuses on the following finance transactions: partnership creation, equity capital infusions, general partner buy-outs, construction lending on quality mixed-use developments, time-sensitive sponsorship re-structuring, adaptive re-use financing, and non-recourse permanent debt for stable income-producing assets.
Capital sources (“the Lender”) for these loans have included life insurance companies, Wall Street/capital markets, credit companies, foreign & domestic banks, and pension funds. The average loan size is $1,000,000 to $12,000,000. Standard Capital has high-quality, reliable, well-known debt & equity sources for much larger loan sizes, which are available today.
Prior to forming Standard Capital, from 1995-1998, Mr. LeBeau was a loan officer for three years, for Keystone Capital Group (GMAC Commercial Mortgage), located in Tucson, Arizona under James R. Sellers. Prior to that, in 1994, he worked as an investment and commercial real estate marketing associate for Mullin Partners, and directly assisted the Owner/Developer during the entitlement process to secure and develop new properties at the very beginning of the maximum influx of companies re-locating from out-of-State, (and out-of-Country), to the-then-much-smaller, but up-and coming, Scottsdale Airpark, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In 1993, Mr. LeBeau received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Clemson University located in South Carolina, USA, specializing in real estate development, and studied overseas, in Munich, Germany for an additional international business emphasis, during the one year accelerated MBA program. In 1992, Mr. LeBeau received a BA in philosophy with a double minor in political science and general business from Gonzaga University located in Spokane, Washington. In 1988, Mr. LeBeau graduated from Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ. He is a native Arizonan who experienced metro Phoenix (Maricopa County) and Tucson (Pima County) go through much change. His desire is to help maintain a beautiful Arizona by preserving her best identity while simultaneously increasing her quality of life by blending the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ traditions of architecture into well-planned developments for each great city, indeed as a models for the world….He and his wife, Dr. Lauren LeBeau, and their dog Max, reside within the City limits of Tucson, Arizona, close to the exciting up-and coming “new” Downtown.
Mr. LeBeau is the Responsible Individual for Standard Capital’s Arizona Mortgage Broker license registered with the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions (MB-0902032). He is a member of the Pima County Real Estate Research Council, a member of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and he serves on a quality, diverse board for efficient communications in development strategies. Mr. LeBeau gives generously to his community charities.
*History footnote: The LeBeau family (and clients) have assisted successful, Arizona based real estate developments, via real estate law and banking, since 1950. Some examples–downtown Phoenix Convention Center, the Chris-Town Shopping Center; Biltmore Fashion Park; Del Webb Townehouse; Arizona Biltmore Hotel; Camelback Inn Resort and Spa; El Con Shopping Center; One Renaissance; Phelps Dodge Tower (North Central). Clients have included the most successful, well-known families in Arizona, and the U.S.A.