Our goal is simple:

Design and Build a Permanent Competitive Advantage.

Always.

SMARTER BUILDINGS. SAFER INVESTMENTS.
STRONGER COMMUNITIES.

Recently ranked as the #16th largest* commercial real estate developer in greater Washington, DC by the Washington Business Journal,

Madison Highland is the preeminent full service office-to-residential development, investment management and construction management company

*The List is ranked by square feet under construction as of Dec. 31, 2023

See the full list here.

OUR APPROACH

Madison Highland’s live/work loft style apartment communities are designed to adapt to customers’ wants and needs.

We’re fact-based, future-oriented, and research-driven. We maximize real estate value and create better investment opportunities by expanding functionality and desirability for 21st century residents and businesses. The best way to achieve these results today is through intelligent office-to-residential conversion.

OUR SERVICES

Madison Highland is a full-service development, investment management, and construction management firm. Our team brings over 75 years of collective experience in sourcing, designing, innovating, developing, and building industry redefining new construction and office-to-residential, live/work, multifamily and mixed-use communities. Learn more about how our team and our strategy can help you achieve your goals.

OUR PROPERTIES

Flexible Innovative Best-in-Class Attainable Green

Madison Highland’s live/work loft style apartment communities maximize value through our proprietary design approach that enables our buildings to adapt instantly to evolving consumer demand by expanding functionality. To learn more, please visit our Live/Work Office to Residential Conversions and Past Success.

A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

In 2022 Highland Square Holdings entered into a strategic partnership with Madison Marquette, forming a unified platform to accelerate the growth of the live/work loft strategy. The new entity is called Madison Highland.

Madison Marquette is a full-service real estate investment management, development and advisory firm with a national platform that transforms assets and delivers institutional quality results. With over $6 billion in assets, Madison Marquette has earned a reputation as a leading operator and investor in multiple property types including mixed-use retail, office, multi-family, senior housing, and medical office.

Through our Madison Highland unified platform, we expand and strengthen the capabilities of both organizations.

STRONGER TOGETHER

OUR CORE VALUES

We believe that responsible investment creates value for all stakeholders. Our full building recycling and repurposing strategy saves up to 30 years of imputed energy usage while also improving the lives of our customers, the environment, and the communities that we serve. Our projects are specifically crafted to increase both function and beauty, reduce time to market, reduce waste, expand green space and attract large, growing and underserved market segments.

By restoring value hidden in plain sight and providing “whole life” cost savings for our customers, live/work lofts encourage the future while supporting vibrant, thriving communities today.

To learn more, see the complete ESG advantage in office to residential conversion.

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

  • We can buy your vacant building or development site. We can devise the exact right solution for your particular opportunity and form a joint venture to develop your property together, or we can provide state of the industry development and construction management services to maximize the success of your specific vision.

    We’re flexible and here to help.

  • Through intelligent allocation of your capital, we can execute best-in-class assets at below-market costs, targeting wide and deep pools of demand that our competitors cannot effectively reach.

    We create highly desirable scarce resources with deeper demand and market targeted differentiation that achieve maximum income stability, occupancy, and revenue growth, quickly, elegantly, and with limited risk.

    Let us show you how our proprietary methods provide the safest place for your capital to grow.

  • Our residential and live/work communities create lasting municipal benefit by stabilizing communities and bringing underutilized and undervalued assets back to life. We all desire to give our customers and constituents the best places to live, work and realize their dreams. We need each other to make the best places possible, but the framework for success starts with you.

    Let’s discuss how increasing flexibility in land use and building regulations helps bring long-term sustainability and success to your community.