Brandon Middleton believes NFTs will soon be an integral part of the real estate industry and he wants his new venture to be the center of all the action.
Middleton, the president and founder of the Tampa-based USA Portfolio Real Estate firm, is opening the New Wealth CoLab, the first-ever real estate and blockchain-focused collaborative workspace in Seminole Heights.
The USA Portfolio Real Estate team renovated the space at 4007 N. Taliaferro Ave., which also serves as the real estate group’s headquarters, to attract entrepreneurs interested in attending workshops on NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and who need a co-working space.
Middleton said the group has been running weekly classes for over a year now and it has attracted local investors, startups and developers, but it needed to create a destination for entrepreneurs to conduct their business, meet with clients and serve bigger groups for the weekly classes.
“The classes we have are on everything from NFTs, marketing, financing and finding properties,” he said. “The space is different than any others because you are walking into an environment where you already have real estate company angel investor in the building, as well as a digital marketing agency (as part of the firm’s operations).”
The 7,000-square-foot New Wealth CoLab will open Feb. 26.
The office building once served a mix of uses, from doctors’ offices to housing an architect firm. Middleton and his company moved into the space over a year ago and leased one of the suites on the second floor.
When the opportunity to buy the property came knocking by way of a foreclosure, Middleton knew he wanted to pursue it.
