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Tribal Enterprises & Investments Report, 2025

Tribal Enterprises Report, 2024

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SCP Tribal Consultants has published its 2024 Tribal Enterprises Report, which tracks tribal enterprises, investments, and programs in U.S. Indian Country. Our tribal enterprise tracking supports our work with tribal nations for economic development and specific project planning and implementation. Over the past decade, the global changes to supply chain, national energy imperatives, and reshoring of key industries, has created a myriad of new opportunities for economic development among U.S. tribal nations.

Tribal enterprises tracked in our report range from tribal casinos and c-store / truck stop travel centers, adventure recreation, and other hospitality properties, to commercial businesses, construction companies, and Tribal SBA 8(a) investments. Tribal investments beyond casinos and c-stores (and truck stops) include destination golf courses, agricultural operations, cannabis growing and retail facilities, and many other asset classes. Tribal Enterprises also include facilities and programs operated for community benefit including health care venues, tribal housing, senior housing, and industrial real estate.

A digital version of our 2024 Tribal Enterprises Report is available upon request through our Contact form. Some tracking lists from the annual report an be viewed on the Research page of this website.

Our research unit also maintains a database of U.S. government grant and other funding programs for Indian County, applicable to tribes and tribal enterprises. We have started to post updates to these grant programs to this website as we become aware of changes or new opportunities.

Our Tribal Enterprises Report limits its tracked enterprises and investments to those disclosed by tribes and pueblos in their websites, local news reports, and 3rd-party websites and media, as well as our own field visits. We also review Indian Country-focused websites maintained by the Department of Interior and other government agencies.

SCP Tribal Consultants is part of StoneCreek Partners LLC and affiliated with Adventure Entertainment, first established in 1984.

Due diligence consultants - Transaction Consultants and Negotiators

U.S. Acquisitions Program – Owner Representation

30.08.2018 Due Diligence Consultants, Transaction and Dealmaking Projects

Nissho Iwai American Corp. (Sojitz) | Acquisition program representative for U.S., for Nissho Iwai American Corp. (now Sojitz Corp.)

StoneCreek Partners was retained by Nissho Iwai American Corp. (NIAC, now Sojitz) as owner’s representative for their North American acquisitions program. The retainer relationship included solicitation and screening of investment proposals, initial investment suitability and feasibility evaluations for NIAC, and in select instances, preliminary deal structuring and due diligence support for prospective acquisitions.

Two select examples of additional detailed due diligence support were Calhoun Beach Club and Condominiums situated along the shoreline of Lake Calhoun in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, Newport-Banning Ranch located in Newport Beach, California. Sojitz was formed in 2004 by the merger of NIAC and Nichimen Corporation.

Real Estate Consultants - Office and Industrial

Feasibility & Due Diligence – The Edge Flex-Tech Office Park

19.08.2018 Due Diligence Consultants, Project Feasibility Consultants

GE Capital | Real estate project consultants for feasibility analysis to support lender’s analysis of planned flex-tech office development. StoneCreek Partners prepared a market feasibility evaluation of this El Segundo (Los Angeles County) flex-tech office park, as part of underwriting for a loan by lender GE Capital to the project’s developer. Study included review of comparable facilities throughout Southern California.

Due Diligence for Multi-Family Condominiums

24.08.2017 Due Diligence Consultants, Residential Housing & Apartments

Due diligence for multi-family condominiums, as part of an overall prospective joint venture investment in Calhoun Beach Club in Minneapolis (Minnesota). Our real estate due diligence consulting was on behalf of Nissho-Iwai American Corp., since renamed a part of Sojitz Corp.

Real estate due diligence services were provided in support of client’s underwriting efforts, in connection with a proposed investment in Calhoun Beach Club’s major renovation and expansion. The expansion was to include residential condominiums in a newly-constructed wing of the complex.

Calhoun Beach Club is a well-known local athletics club, social club, luxury apartment complex, and social banquets location, overlooking Minneapolis’ scenic downtown lakes. The residential complex is situated on the shores of Bde Maka Ska (the former Lake Calhoun), convenient to downtown Minneapolis and a network of parks and tree-lined lakes with miles of running, walking and biking paths. An aspect of our due diligence for this multi-family condominiums investment, was consideration of the facility’s location among these area amenities and outdoor recreation, as compared to similar (competitive) facilities in the region.

In January 2018, Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”) formally replaced the Calhoun name with Dakota (Native American) name, Bde Maka Ska. The Dakota name for the lake means “White Earth Lake.” There have been challenges to the DNR’s name change but so far, the name remains. The former name was chosen to honor John C. Calhoun (1782 to 1850), who was a proponent of slavery and expulsion of Native Americans from their tribal lands. The name change promulgated by the DNR is one of a myriad of such actions taken throughout the U.S., to bring about some balancing of U.S. history as viewed by Native Americans and other “people of color.”

Sojitz Corporation a “sogo shosha” (general trading company) based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is engaged in a wide range of businesses globally, including buying, selling, importing, and exporting goods, manufacturing and selling products, providing services, and planning and coordinating projects, in Japan and overseas. Sojitz was formed in 2004 through the business integration between Nichimen and Nissho Iwai. Prior to this merger, our client (an affiliate of Nissho Iwai) for this due diligence for multi-family condominiums, had been formed by the merger of Nissho Company and Iwai Sangyo Company in 1968.

Due Diligence for Shopping Center

01.08.2016 Due Diligence Consultants, Experience with C-Store Fueling Stations, Malls and Shopping Center Consultants, Property inspection services

Due diligence for shopping center acquisition, the Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (REIT) acquisition of Lakeside Plaza in Salem, Virginia.

StoneCreek Partners provided due diligence consulting in connection with buyer’s shopping center acquisition, including property inspections, Phase 1 environmental reviews, tenant lease confirms, and rent rollover analysis, for this grocery-anchored community shopping center. Support of the buyer included preparation of tenant lease abstracts, estoppels, SNDA (subordination, non-disturbance and attornment) provisions, and a review of common area charges (CAM) and vendors, among due diligence items.

Tenancies at Lakeside Plaza shopping center included a typical roster of anchor and inline retail tenants. The due diligence for this shopping center acquisition included co-tenancy considerations with regard to an on-site Kroger Fuel Center (a branded c-store gas station) albeit with limited convenience store offerings.

Salem is an independent city in Virginia adjacent on the east with the city of Roanoke (Virginia). The city is located in southwestern Virginia in a scenic setting along the Blue Ridge Mountains The shopping center is located at 161 Electric Road, Salem, Virginia 24153.

Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (Cincinnati) is an internally-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), one of the largest owners and operators of grocery-anchored shopping centers in the U.S. The company has purchased and managed more than 300 grocery-anchored shopping centers throughout the U.S.