Company Description
Broad Street Realty, Inc. (OTCQX: BRST) is a fully integrated and self-managed real estate company focused on income-producing commercial and mixed-use properties. According to company disclosures, Broad Street Realty owns, operates, develops, and redevelops primarily essential grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties located in densely populated technology employment hubs and higher education centers within the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Colorado markets. The company also operates a commercial real estate services platform that provides cost-effective solutions for office, industrial and retail clients.
Core property focus and portfolio characteristics
Broad Street Realty concentrates its portfolio on grocery, essential retail, daily needs, and value-oriented tenants that require customers to physically visit locations to receive goods and services. Management has highlighted that this tenant mix has supported revenue, leasing momentum, leasing spreads and portfolio occupancy across market cycles. The company’s assets include neighborhood shopping centers and mixed-use properties, including student housing combined with retail space, such as the Midtown Row property in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Over time, Broad Street Realty has expanded its portfolio through acquisitions and mergers of shopping centers and mixed-use assets in markets such as Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Properties referenced in company communications include The Shops at Greenwood Village in Colorado, Cromwell Shopping Center in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Lamar Station Plaza in Lakewood, Colorado, and Midtown Row in Williamsburg, Virginia. These assets are positioned around essential retail and, in certain cases, student housing tied to nearby higher education institutions.
Business model and real estate services
The company’s business model combines property ownership with a services platform. Broad Street Realty owns and manages shopping centers and mixed-use assets, while also providing third-party development, property management, leasing, and tenant representation services. Its real estate services team offers primarily tenant representation services to office and retail tenants, with activity described in the Washington, D.C. metro area and the Denver, Colorado markets. The services arm has represented a range of office and retail tenants, as described in company update letters, and generates commissions and management income alongside rental income from the owned portfolio.
Broad Street has also engaged in fee-based development and management assignments for institutional and non-institutional customers, including development management and property management for assets that it later acquired into its portfolio, such as Midtown Row. This combination of ownership, development, and service activities is reflected in the company’s reporting of rental income, commissions, management and other income, and non-GAAP performance measures such as net operating income (NOI) and same-center NOI.
Geographic footprint and markets
Company disclosures describe a geographic focus on the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Colorado markets, with properties in states including Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as the Washington, D.C. area. Within these regions, Broad Street Realty targets densely populated technology employment hubs and higher education centers, aligning its mixed-use and retail assets with areas of sustained consumer demand and student populations.
Examples cited in company communications include shopping centers in Greenwood Village, Colorado; Glen Burnie, Maryland; Harrisonburg, Virginia; and mixed-use and student housing assets in Williamsburg, Virginia. The company has also referenced offices in Denver, Colorado and the Washington, D.C. area in connection with its operating platform and services business.
Capital structure, joint ventures and institutional partners
Broad Street Realty has used a mix of equity, preferred equity, mezzanine financing and mortgage loans to support acquisitions and portfolio growth. A notable institutional relationship involves an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC. The company disclosed securing an $80 million preferred equity investment and a $15 million mezzanine loan related to the Midtown Row asset from Fortress affiliates, as well as a first lien mortgage from affiliates of Blackstone Inc. in connection with the Midtown Row acquisition. These capital arrangements were used to finance acquisitions such as Lamar Station Plaza and Midtown Row, retire existing loans and preferred investments, and provide working capital.
Broad Street also entered into a joint venture structure through Broad Street Eagles JV LLC (the “Eagles Sub-OP”), involving its operating partnership and a Fortress-affiliated member. Subsequent SEC filings describe changes in control of the Eagles Sub-OP, deconsolidation of that entity from Broad Street’s financial statements, and the impact on the company’s financial condition and liquidity.
Operational performance and leasing
In stakeholder update letters, management has emphasized portfolio leasing activity, occupancy and leasing spreads as key indicators of performance. The company has reported signing numerous new and renewal leases across its retail portfolio, with leasing spreads on both new and renewal leases contributing to internal growth. Management has highlighted that most of the portfolio is concentrated in essential retail and daily-needs tenants, and that this focus has supported portfolio performance through challenging economic and lending environments.
Broad Street has also reported on the performance of its student housing component at Midtown Row, noting high leased percentages for academic years referenced in its communications. The company uses non-GAAP measures such as NOI and same-center NOI to evaluate property-level performance, and has provided reconciliations of these measures to net income in its public filings.
ESG and clean energy initiatives
Recent news releases describe Broad Street Realty’s participation in rooftop solar projects at its shopping centers in Maryland. At Cromwell Shopping Center in Glen Burnie, Maryland, the company partnered with Centennial and Madison Energy Infrastructure on a multi-megawatt rooftop solar installation. A subsequent project at Hollinswood Shopping Center in Baltimore County involved a rooftop solar system designed to reduce electricity costs for approximately 1,000 homes and increase power production in the state.
In these announcements, Broad Street’s leadership has linked the solar projects to the company’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and implementing ESG-focused initiatives across its properties. The projects are presented as examples of how commercial real estate owners can pursue decarbonization while supporting local communities and potentially enhancing property-level economics.
Corporate culture and values
In letters to stakeholders, Broad Street Realty’s leadership has described a company culture built around core “TRIBAL” values: Teamwork, Respect, Integrity, Balance, Accountability and Leadership. These values are supported by a set of behavioral fundamentals that the company states it teaches, rewards and reinforces on a regular basis. Management attributes aspects of portfolio performance and operational execution to this culture and the efforts of its staff and leadership team.
Liquidity challenges and going concern disclosures
In a Form 12b-25 (Notification of Late Filing) related to its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2025, Broad Street Realty disclosed substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The filing explains that, following a rescission of a waiver and removal of its operating partnership as managing member of the Eagles Sub-OP by the Fortress-affiliated member, the company deconsolidated the Eagles Sub-OP as of April 1, 2025. All income-producing real estate assets that the company historically consolidated are owned by subsidiaries of the Eagles Sub-OP, and the Fortress-affiliated member has full control of cash accounts of the Eagles Sub-OP and its subsidiaries.
The company disclosed that it does not have the resources or capital necessary to complete the preparation and review of the financial statements and related disclosures for the referenced Quarterly Report without unreasonable effort or expense. It also reported that it has limited unrestricted cash and outstanding liabilities, and that it projects it will not have sufficient cash flow to cover its obligations in the near term. The filing notes that the Fortress-affiliated member has been marketing properties owned by the Eagles Sub-OP for sale to third-party buyers to redeem its preferred equity investment and repay a mezzanine loan, and that there can be no assurance that proceeds will be sufficient to satisfy these obligations and other liabilities.
Based on these factors, the company stated that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, and that its ability to continue depends on obtaining third-party equity and/or debt financing or on successful property sales managed by the Fortress-affiliated member. The company cautioned that there can be no assurance that these plans will be successful.
Governance developments
SEC filings in November 2025 report the resignations of two members of Broad Street Realty’s board of directors. One filing notes the resignation of a director who also served on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Another filing reports the resignation of a director associated with Fortress. In both cases, the company disclosed that the resignations were not the result of any disagreements with the company on matters relating to operations, policies or practices.
Investment considerations
Broad Street Realty trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol BRST. Investors evaluating BRST have access to a history of company communications describing its focus on essential grocery-anchored shopping centers, mixed-use assets in technology and higher education hubs, real estate services operations, and ESG-oriented property initiatives such as rooftop solar projects. At the same time, recent SEC filings outline significant liquidity constraints, the deconsolidation of the Eagles Sub-OP, and explicit going concern disclosures. These factors, as described in the company’s own filings and news releases, form an important part of the context for understanding the BRST stock and the company’s current situation.