PMAT is a real estate development firm focused on value-add shopping center investments across the Southeast, Sunbelt, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. The firm was founded and is headed by Robert A. Whelan, a former Chief Financial Officer of Sizeler Property Investors, Inc., a NYSE-traded shopping center and multifamily REIT that owned several million square feet of retail properties and several thousand multifamily units. Through their extensive relationships with industry professionals, PMAT primarily buys off market transaction in the Southeast, Sunbelt, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. They have completed several of their joint ventures with Pension Funds, Life Insurance Companies, Public and Private REIT’s, and other Institutional Partners in the past. PMAT has acquired the majority of their centers in off market transactions (although most times through brokers). They have never executed a contract and not closed.