FRANK NORMANDIN

President & Founder

Frank Normandin is the founding principal of Summit Realty Partners and Winslow Property Management. Frank has been involved with all facets of real estate in New England for over forty years, which includes: management, leasing, tenant representation, development, financing, construction, and sales. He began his career with Owner /Developer, the Zuker Companies, whose focus was retail space all over New England. They were an active joint venture partners of the Hamilton Company of Boston on many projects. Mr. Normandin’s experience includes working from the ownership perspective to maximize property value through sound management and leasing.

Mr. Normandin founded Winslow Property Management, Inc in 1992 and the brokerage division, Summit Realty Partners, Inc. in 1998. Mr. Normandin’s experience includes property management and leasing services provided for banking institutions and investors on properties ranging in size up to 500,000 square feet. At these properties Mr. Normandin has overseen budgeting, cost analysis, bid solicitation, CAM reconciliation, new construction, tenant build-outs, routine maintenance, facade redesign and construction, emergency service and fire restoration, contract supervision, energy audits, insurance audits, tax abatements, tenant evictions, tenant solicitation and retention, credit checks, lease negotiations and administration. In 2005, Normandin partnered with Dan Katz of Katz properties (now KPR Retail) on a management company for his first retail acquisition to oversee management and leasing. The Katz portfolio grew to 35 shopping centers between Maine and Florida. Normandin opened and staffed offices in Maine, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Jacksonville, and Fort Lauderdale, FL. Normandin sold his interest in the Katz entity in 2017. In 2019, Mr. Normandin worked on behalf of a family trust on four separate tax-free exchanges with a combined purchase price exceeding 75,000,000 acquiring 19 new assets managed by the company in 9 different US States. In 2020, the company was retained by a family office for property management services for a 15 property retail portfolio in the greater Boston area. The company now, through several divisions, manages and leases over 200 properties in 47 States from the Lexington, MA office. Clients include family trusts, active investors, pension fund advisors and a Fortune 100 company.

Mr. Normandin graduated as the President of his Class at Saint Michael’s College, Winooski Park, VT, with a B.A. in Political Science. In addition, he has undertaken post graduate work in real estate studies at Boston University. Mr. Normandin is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is a licensed real estate broker in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut.