Zizza & Associates, or Zizza Co, is a family-owned investment firm with interests in real estate, credit, private equity, and venture capital. Zizza Co is committed to long-term, active ownership to enhance the value of its investments for all stakeholders.

Zizza Co’s current real estate investments are focused in the United States, with holdings in multifamily, industrial, self-storage, data centers, and student housing. The company primarily invests in the equity of income-producing properties, but has the flexibility to invest throughout the capital stack and risk spectrum.

Zizza Co invests in real estate as both a general partner (GP) and a limited partner (LP). As a GP, Zizza Co owns four multifamily buildings in New York City (Brooklyn and Queens) totaling 300,000 square feet across 290 units. Zizza Co also developed 200 condominium units in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, NY, in 1996 and 14 single family homes in Canton, MA in 2013.

The company’s limited partner real estate investments are spread across various markets on the East Coast, Midwest, and Southeast of the United States, with interests in over 25,000 garden-style apartments in Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Zizza Co also has industrial holdings in the Midwest and in the Inland Empire region of California. The company’s most recent limited partner real estate investment was in self-storage, participating in an equity syndicate funding a GP pursuing a value-add investment strategy.

Zizza Co has at various times held direct operating company investments, though currently there are none in its portfolio. Previous businesses held by Zizza Co include Bethlehem Advanced Materials (design and manufacture of high-temperature furnaces used to process specialty materials), Metropolitan Paper & Recycling, Hallmark Electrical (electrical parts distributor), and NICO Construction Company. Zizza Co also invests in operating businesses as an LP.

Primary Capital Partners (“Primary”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zizza Co, provides loans to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs, mostly secured by real estate. Primary’s loan book consists almost entirely of first and second mortgages on income-producing property and operating businesses.