NY Developer MAG Partners Expanding to South Florida
The developer has hired a former Swire Properties executive to lead the expansion based in Miami
By Julia Echikson November 12, 2026 1:55 pm
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New York development firm MAG Partners is expanding to South Florida and tapped a former Swire Properties executive to lead the operation, Commercial Observer has learned.
Kevin Davenport last month joined MAG Partners as the firm’s senior vice president and head of development based in Miami. MAG is also finalizing an office lease in Downtown Miami, though a company representative declined to disclose the location and footprint.
MAG Partners founder MaryAnne Gilmartin made her name working at Forest City Ratner Companies, overseeing high-profile, starchitect-designed projects in New York City, including the Renzo Piano-designed New York Times Building and the Barclays Center.
Gilmartin launched MAG Partners in 2020, which has since developed midsize residential buildings in New York and a 235-acre, master-planned development in Baltimore.
“The firm has an extensive track record of working on complicated, design-driven, premier urban projects,” Davenport told CO. “We’re seeing a lot of those types of opportunities in Miami.”
In South Florida, MAG Partners is targeting office, condominium, hospitality and mixed-use developments, either independently or alongside development partners. Davenport declined to provide further details about the firm’s upcoming projects.
Davenport spent four years at Swire Properties, serving as the senior vice president of development, overseeing the Mandarin Oriental luxury condo project on Brickell Key in Miami. The two-tower waterfront development, which remains under construction, has generated $1.7 billion in sales, according to Swire.
Julia Echikson can be reached at jechikson@commercialobserver.com.
