Carson's Corner: Entrepreneurship & Investing
Carson's Corner is the podcast for commercial real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and operators who think in decades, not quarters.
Host Carson Jones — investor, author of The Red Flag Playbook, and licensed commercial real estate advisor and business broker — interviews founders, family offices, and industry operators to unpack the deals, strategies, and hard lessons behind real wealth creation.
Carson's Corner is built for investors, entrepreneurs, and operators who are serious about long-term wealth creation — not get-rich-quick schemes.
The world’s wealthiest investors approach investing very differently than most people. Instead of chasing short-term returns, they focus on preserving wealth, reputation, and legacy across generations. Their decisions are often driven as much by relationships and trusted networks as by financial models, and many of their best opportunities come through private deals, family offices, and invitation-only circles, not public markets. Each episode brings a commercial real estate lens to capital deployment, business partnerships, and alternative investments.
Topics covered: commercial real estate investing · industrial real estate · syndications · passive investing · oil & gas · alternative assets · business acquisitions · capital partnerships · entrepreneurship · wealth building · family office strategies · market risk · reshoring trends
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The Future of Development: Multi-Tenant Ecosystems with Micro Data Centers
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The Future of Development: Multi-Tenant Ecosystems with Micro Data Centers
Most people think of data centers as standalone mega-campuses…
But the real shift happening right now?
Mixed-use, multi-tenant ecosystems where industrial, medical, office, micro data centers, and residential all support each other — and strengthen the underwriting
In this episode, we sit down with Kamron Barr, MRED, LEED AP, the developer behind a new 150,000+ sq ft, six-building project in Clearfield, Utah that’s built on one core principle:
Instead of a single use driving the site, Kamron is layering multiple synergistic demand drivers into one vertically integrated development:
- 🛠️ Light industrial users (contractors, trades, service companies)
- 🩺 Medical office + health services
- 🏢 Professional office suites
- 🏬 Retail / consumer-facing components
- 🧠 Embedded Micro Data Centers powering AI, robotics, automation
- 🏘️ Future multifamily phase to support workforce and walkable density
Each use is intentionally placed. Each use stabilizes the others.
And together, they create a resilient, future-proof income stack that single-use developments simply can’t match.
How Kamron is structuring it:
- ⚡ On-site clean energy generation → Net Zero operations
- 💸 CPACE financing → reducing cost of capital and boosting project returns
- 🧩 59 diverse tenant spaces sized for flexibility and absorption
- 🖥️ Embedded Micro Data Centers → turning the property into digital infrastructure
- 🛠️ Full internal control of entitlement, construction, leasing, and operations
→ meaning no bottlenecks, no outsourcing drag, and no execution fog
Project Snapshot
- 8 Acres | 150,000 sq ft | 6 Buildings
- 59 Tenant Spaces Across Industrial, Medical, Office & Tech Infrastructure
- Off-market acquisition with financing secured
- $6.5M equity raise
- Located in an Opportunity Zone → ZERO capital gains after 10 years
This isn’t theory. This isn’t “someday.”
This is what diversified, tech-enabled industrial development looks like right now.
Kamron has overseen 100+ projects totaling $1,000,000,000+, spanning medical, industrial, multifamily, municipal, and manufacturing builds. He’s a LEED AP, a 40 Under Forty award recipient, and a developer with real dirt-under-the-fingernails experience.
He’s not following the trend —he’s shaping the next generation of mixed-use development.
Kamron can be reached at his website https://www.buildwithbarr.com
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