Established in 1994, CIM is a vertically integrated, community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender and developer with a 30-year track record. CIM has built a vertically integrated platform across all facets of the real assets universe, including real estate, private credit, infrastructure, and tax advantaged offerings.
Since its founding, CIM has sought to create value in projects and positively impact the lives of people in communities across the Americas by delivering more than $60 billion of essential real estate and infrastructure projects. With broad in-house expertise including in-house research, acquisition, credit analysis, development, finance, leasing and onsite property management capabilities, we seek to create value through robust real asset equity and credit platforms.
Recent highlights
Launched in 2007, CIM’s infrastructure platform targets sustainable mid-market opportunities—meeting growing demand for new development and asset upgrades across digital, renewable energy, social, and waste/water infrastructure. We seek to offer our clients diverse opportunities and solutions within the infrastructure universe.
Vision and beliefs
North America Mid-Market: Focused on creating value within infrastructure assets and platforms with high growth potential through development, expansion, upgrades, active management and operational expertise.
- Focus on Sustainability: CIM seeks to partner with and develop sustainability-focused infrastructure platforms
- Investment Approach: Equity and debt positions in core-plus and value-added infrastructure assets
- Synergies and Expertise: Strong synergies with broader real estate and credit investing platforms, leverage in-house expertise to create value within each investment
- Proprietary Deal Sourcing: Deep-rooted community relationships are leveraged to source ~90% of investments through proprietary channels
Investment process and research
CIM follows a clearly defined and disciplined acquisition process to identify and select attractive assets and to quantify and help mitigate relative risk factors. This process carries an asset through its entire lifecycle including sourcing, research, underwriting, financing, acquisition, development, management and disposition.
CIM believes that it has a competitive advantage in sourcing attractive, proprietary opportunities. By leveraging CIM’s Qualified Community approach, the Firm and its dedicated professionals acquire a deep local market knowledge of each of the communities or markets where the Firm has a presence. This approach allows us to identify and form relationships with all key local stakeholders, including owners, developers, leasing brokers, sales brokers, community groups, local government officials, among others and uncover attractive investment opportunities as well as acquire a deep understanding of intrinsic values, locations, market supply and demand dynamics and local regulations.
Qualified Communities are designated areas identified for targeted support due to economic, environmental, or social conditions.
CIM utilizes its broad network of relationships, ranging from sophisticated institutions to smaller family trusts, to help identify and acquire assets at a discount to their intrinsic (i.e., expected long-term) values.
Compliance statement
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Data as of 12/31/2024. Assets Owned and Operated (AOO) represents the aggregate assets owned and operated by CIM on behalf of partners (including where CIM contributes alongside for its own account) and co-investors, whether or not CIM has discretion, in each case without duplication.
