About - Slate Ventures

About Us

Creating Spaces Where
Communities Thrive

For years, Slate has partnered with businesses, investors, and communities to create commercial developments rooted in strategy, opportunity, and long-term value.

Who We Are

Slate Ventures is a privately held, fully integrated real estate development, investment, and brokerage firm based in Dallas, Texas.

What Drives Us

Designing & developing distinctive neighborhood commercial spaces that unite communities, inspire growth, and deliver lasting value.

what we offer

A FULLY INTEGRATED PLATFORM

From land acquisition to long-term management, we handle every phase of the development lifecycle.

Land & Development

Executing every stage of the development process, from acquisition and entitlements to construction, leasing, disposition, and stabilization.

Slate delivers real estate solutions backed by deep market expertise and decades of experience.

Construction & Project Oversight

We actively manage the execution process from pre-development through delivery, coordinating consultants, contractors, municipalities, and stakeholders to maintain project momentum, control costs, and ensure quality across every stage of development.

Sales & Leasing

Our brokerage team secures high-quality retail and medical tenants that drive long-term occupancy and asset stability. The relationships we’ve built over the years speak for themselves, our tenants follow us from project to project.

Property Management

We manage the assets we build, maintaining performance and protecting value for our investors and tenants.

Asset Management & Optimization

We take a hands-on approach to asset management, focused on protecting value, maintaining strong tenant relationships, and driving long-term performance across the portfolio. Through active oversight, strategic leasing, and operational execution, we continuously optimize each asset to support occupancy, cash flow, and long-term growth.

our approach

GROUND UP DEVELOPMENT

From raw land to ribbon cutting — we manage every step.

Market Identification
& Site Selection

We pursue high-growth suburban corridors across North Texas, identifying underserved communities before demand materializes. Each site is rigorously evaluated against traffic counts, demographic trends, ingress and egress, and long-term market fundamentals.

Entitlement
& Civil Coordination

We manage the full entitlement process — platting, zoning, utility coordination, and municipal approvals — leveraging deep relationships with civil engineers and city officials to move projects efficiently from concept to shovel-ready.

Tenant Recruitment
& Lease Execution

Our established relationships with national and regional credit tenants allow us to secure commitments early — often before construction begins. The result is a leased, stabilized asset before the doors ever open.

Construction
Management

We take a hands-on approach throughout the construction process, actively managing our general contractors, enforcing schedule adherence, and maintaining budget discipline from horizontal site work through vertical delivery — whether that’s a multi-tenant retail center or a multi-building medical office campus.

Asset Management
& Long-Term Value Creation

Our involvement doesn’t end at delivery. We manage the assets we build — overseeing tenant relationships, operating expenses, and property performance — ensuring every development continues to generate strong, sustainable returns for our investors.

Asset Management
& Optimization

Our team

meet the experts behind slate

A team built on experience, relationships, and a commitment to doing things the right way.

KRIS RAMJI

CEO/President

Kris is the President, Founder, and CEO of Slate Ventures. With more than 25 years of real estate development experience, Kris has led projects representing more than $500 million in development value across over 1 million square feet of commercial and mixed-use assets, while contributing to more than $400 million in real estate sales. He has built a strong track record of identifying, structuring, and executing value-driven opportunities throughout the full development lifecycle, including site selection, entitlements, infrastructure, construction oversight, leasing, and asset management. By combining market insight with disciplined execution, Kris has consistently transformed complex opportunities into high-quality projects that create sustainable long-term value.

Amman Sidi

CFO

Amman Sidi serves as Chief Financial Officer of Slate Ventures, where he oversees financial strategy, capital sourcing, underwriting, investor relations, and project risk management across the firms’ investment and development portfolio. With more than 25 years of leadership experience, Amman brings expertise in mergers and acquisitions, financial strategy, and operational execution. Prior to joining Slate, he served as a Partner at a consulting firm, advising large public and middle-market organizations on complex transactions representing approximately $20 billion, including acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic growth initiatives. His experience across large-scale transactions and capital allocation decisions brings disciplined financial oversight to investment strategy, with a focus on underwriting rigor, downside protection, and long-term value creation.

KRIS RAMJI

Chief Culture Officer

KRIS RAMJI

Chief Culture Officer

Matt Bodzy

Managing Director, Development

Dan Morales

Managing Director, Acquisitions

featured projects

WE CREATE EXTRAORDINARY PROJECTS.

From neighborhood retail centers to purpose-built medical office buildings, every project we develop is designed to serve its community for the long term.