NAIOP South Florida To Honor Malcom Butters With Lifetime Achievement Award At 2023 Awards Of Excellence

NAIOP South Florida, the commercial real estate development association, will hold its 2023 Awards of Excellence on Thursday, March 30th.

The annual celebration acknowledges excellence throughout the South Florida commercial real estate (CRE) industry.

Malcom Butters, president, and co-founder of Butters Construction & Development, will receive the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award. A 32-year commercial real estate development veteran, Butters is regarded as one of the most active and innovative developers in the state and a pioneer in elevating the architectural standards for commercial buildings.

His real estate firm is actively engaged in the construction, development, investment, property management and leasing of industrial, office, and retail properties, and is currently ranked number one on the South Florida Business Journal’s annual list of the region’s commercial real estate developers.

Over the course of his career, Butters has built more than 22 million sq. ft., including First Park Miami, a 2.5 million-sq.-ft. industrial development underway in Miami, and Miami Midway Park, a 50-acre warehouse and apartment unit project. Other development highlights include the 600,000-sq.-ft. office and retail Boca Village Corporate Center, Hillsboro Technology Park and Marriott Residence Inn Coconut Creek, among many others.

Butters has won Developer of the Year six times from NAIOP South Florida and was included in Florida Trend’s Florida 500 Most Influential Business Leaders of 2022. He has also been inducted into Florida International University’s Hall of Fame, recognized as an alumnus who has attained entrepreneurial distinction. Butters also sits on the Miami Herbert Business School’s Real Estate Advisory Council, the Urban Land Institute Advisory Council and has founded the Florida International University Hollo School of Real Estate “Malcolm & Catherine Butters Real Estate Scholarship” award.

“As a participant in the award nomination review, I was incredibly impressed with all that was accomplished this year in commercial real estate,” noted Stephanie Rodriguez, Awards of Excellence chair and national director of industrial services at Colliers. “ I look forward to celebrating the culmination of another amazing year in business, the winners and our Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Malcom Butters, during NAIOP’s most talked about night of the year.”

The NAIOP Awards of Excellence will be held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.