Milwaukee Business Journal  |  March 9, 2023

Sitting at his computer in Milwaukee, F Street Investments founder Scott Lurie watched as a $50,000 pledge was made toward his firm’s latest raise by a resident of Huffman, Texas.

That came only a few minutes after F Street Investments’ offering went live on the national Securitize website, which vets and offers opportunities to an online pool of hundreds of thousands of accredited investors. F Street Investments is turning to Securitize as a broker and dealer as it looks to raise up to $50 million for its business providing loans for real estate companies to acquire and rehab homes.

The digital tool, which almost instantly connected Lurie to a person in Texas whom he’d never met, is another example of how the digital world is transforming the process of raising money for real estate investments in Milwaukee, and beyond.

Milwaukee Business Journal  |  February 14, 2022

With the forthcoming launch of a blockchain-powered capital raise, Milwaukee development firm F Street Group is betting on innovations it believes will shape the future of the economy.

“Whether people realize it or not, (blockchain is) here and transactions are occurring daily in the blockchain-crypto world,” F Street Group president Scott Lurie said. “We see it to be a very important piece of the future and we’re investing time and resources into it today.”

With its new F Street Blockchain initiative, F Street Group — the developer behind the site of Milwaukee Tool’s new downtown office, among other projects — aims to capture a new source of capital for its commercial real estate development and lending businesses from a pool of global investors that will each contribute smaller amounts than its traditional investors typically put up.

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