Mike Chernine
With the strategy of learning the business from the inside out, Michael started his real estate career in 1988 at Nevada Title Company in customer service researching legal descriptions and maps and eventually the Commercial Escrow Department working on high liability escrow transactions. Some notable transactions he worked on were the assemblage for The Mirage Hotel and the disposition of the Hacienda Hotel. In 1990, at the age of 22, Michael began orchestrating land assemblages for local homebuilders and shortly thereafter started raising private equity to acquire strategic land via syndication through his company, LandBaron Investments. Throughout his career, Michael’s companies have been involved with the design & development of mixed-use, multi-family, office, industrial, retail, resort, master-planned communities, and digital billboards. Since 2015, he has focused on mid-bay and cross dock industrial projects in Las Vegas and Boise as a principal in Brass Cap Development. In 2021, Mike and Jason formed IndiCap to develop large, institutional industrial projects. Michael possesses a broad range of experience in all stages of market cycles and quite possibly may never retire. Michael has a keen eye for securing prime or hard to obtain land and possesses experience in complex deal structures. His geographical real estate experience includes NV, CA, AZ, UT, ID, MT & OR. Michael is married and has four children and balances business with travel, wine, baseball games, mixed martial arts, and hiking.
Skill Sets
- Escrow & Title
- Entitlements
- Lobbying
- Market Research
- Land Assemblage and Acquisition
- Land Planning and Design
- Financing
- Sales and Lease Negotiations
- Project Design
- Capital Stacks
- Evaluate Budget & Scheduling
- Financial Analysis
- Property Management
- Repositioning Retail projects
- Oversee Project Management
- Disposition
- Land Exchanges with municipalities
- Had tremendous successes and learned valuable lessons from mistakes
Education
- Clark High School
- UNLV
- Harvard Executive Business School Courses- Real Estate Finance Program
- Choice Center Leadership University
- CCIM Courses
Pastand Present Companies
- LandBaron Investments
- Land Capital Financial
- Media Minds
- Resort Media
- Brass Cap Development
- IndiCap, Inc.
Venture Capital Projects
- Javo Coffee Company
- Co-Signer.com
- Ganix Aquaculture – Indoor Shrimp Farms
Past/Present Affiliations
- Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance
- Red Cross Board
- Candlelighters Board
- NAIOP
- GLVAR
- Faith Lutheran Board
- CCIM
Hobbies & Interests
- Travel
- Cooking
- Pilates
- Boxing & Mixed Martial Arts
- Wilderness & Mountain Hiking
- Fishing
- Biking
- Spending time with Family
- Wine
- Golfing
- Volunteering
- Networking
- Music
- Joke telling
- Real Estate Alchemy
Mike's development experience includes the following partial list of commercial real estate projects in the Southwest U.S.:
- 80,000 square feet of Industrial, Sunset 15 West, Las Vegas, NV
- 17-acre Home Depot Center @ Flamingo & 215, Las Vegas, NV
- 10,000 square foot office building @ Ft Apache & Oquendo, Las Vegas, NV
- 32,000 square foot office building on Snow Canyon Pkwy, St George, UT
- The Curve, Mixed Use 47 acres at 215/Sunset/Durango, Las Vegas, NV
- The 215 On & Off-ramps at Buffalo, Durango, Sunset, Russell, Tropicana and Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV
- Painted Hills, 300 acres, Tucson, AZ
- Dry Creek Ranch Master Planned Community, 1414 acres, Boise, ID
- Aetna Springs Resort & Golf, 3,000 acres, Napa, CA
- 261 acres almond and pistachio farm in Bakersfield, CA
- Family Dollar, E. Sahara, Las Vegas, NV
- 55-acre Target Center @ Green Valley Parkway & Horizon, Henderson, NV
- 11,400 square foot home, Ridges, Las Vegas, NV
- 165,000 sq foot Gateway Crossing Shopping Center, Avondale, AZ
- 120,000 sq foot warehouse, Federal Way, Boise, ID
- 165,000 sq foot Gateway Crossing Shopping Center, Avondale, AZ
- 200,000 sq foot warehouse, NVSIP, Las Vegas, NV
- Raising Canes, 180 N. Nellis, Las Vegas, NV
- 40,000 sq foot warehouse, SanTico, Las Vegas, NV
- Sprouts Market, Silverado Ranch Road, Las Vegas, NV
- 69,000 sq ft warehouse Executive Airport Crossing, West Henderson, NV
- 25,000 sq ft warehouse Brass Diablo, Las Vegas, NV
- 50,000 sq ft BTS – Loomis AB, Las Vegas, NV
- 150,000 sq ft distribution warehouse, West Henderson, NV
- 207-unit multi-family project, North Las Vegas
- 57-unit multi-family project, UNLV Las Vegas
- 145,000 sq ft warehouse, West Henderson, NV
- 150,000 sq ft warehouse, Raiders Training Facility, West Henderson, NV
- 160,000 sq ft distribution center, Sloan, NV
- 400,000 sq ft distribution center, LVBS
- Wildfire Casino, Green Valley Grocery and A & W, Las Vegas, NV
- Wildfire Casino, Union Village, Henderson, NV
- 6 Office Building Condo Conversion, Henderson, NV
- Dutch Bros – Mesquite, NV
- 1,600,000 sq ft distribution/manufacturing center, Mesa Gateway, PHX
- 1,400,000 sq ft distribution/manufacturing center, 303 Corridor, PHX
- 311-acre Mixed Use Project – 3.1mm sq ft industrial, 30 acres retail & 700 MF units – The Ranch, Gilbert 202, PHX