By 1979, Armando Codina had already pioneered the field of data processing for doctors’ offices when he founded Codina Group, which he grew into Florida’s largest privately held commercial real estate company. He later merged it with another to eventually be sold off to Fortress Investment Group. In 2009, he teamed up with his daughter, Ana-Marie Codina Barlick — who by then had earned her MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and worked at several other commercial real estate firms — to found Codina Partners. The Codinas developed a portfolio of offices, industrial complexes, and retail and residential projects. About five years ago, they opened Downtown Doral, a mixed-use development — essentially a small city — on 250 acres. It includes 5,000 residential units (houses, townhouses, condos and apartments), 1.5M SF of office space across five buildings, and 70 shops and restaurants with a focus on independent stores over chains. In a unique arrangement with the local school board, Codina Partners also built two multilingual charter schools, which Codina Barlick plays a role in running, that are top-ranked and tuition-free. It also built the LEED-certified City Hall. Its efforts to support tenants during the pandemic were creative and unique, such as hiring musicians to go door to door in its residential properties, providing storage units for its restaurant tenants to remove furniture for social distancing and building an outdoor theater and hosting a live performance of The Nutcracker. Codina's extraordinary contributions to the Doral community and its efforts to build community and keep fun alive even during the pandemic make it a Bisnow innovator. Read the full story here. | 
