About us

Our Beginning

Cowboy Partners, which traces its roots through a predecessor Utah-based company back to the 1950s, was organized in 2001 with a sharp focus on creating compelling places, and that hasn’t changed. Creating compelling places for people still defines our purpose.

This unflinching devotion to compelling places means communities of architectural character in legacy-worthy locations with designed-in resilience. It means housing options fully charged with lifestyle preferences, with compelling value, and are managed with a resident-first priority that we express with a simple mandate of ‘Happy Residents.’ It also means taking the opportunity to apply our considerable skill and experience to the mission of creating affordable housing options for those for whom the market doesn’t provide a solution. What could be more compelling than the opportunity to afford a place to call home.

Compelling places also refers to the economic proposition for our investor partners. This cornerstone brings clarity to our purpose of providing our investor partners resilient and long-term investment opportunities in assets with a demonstrated long-term record of performance capturing the power of cash flow, combined with appreciation, combined with amortization, and capped off with income tax advantages. The Cowboy portfolio is carefully crafted and meticulously nurtured, creating compelling peace of mind combined with compelling returns for our investor partners. The portfolio continues to grow in a sustainable fashion and inquiries from interested investor partners is welcome.

Cowboy Partners

Widely recognized as one of the premier multifamily and mixed-use developers in the West, Cowboy Partners represents the best in the creation of innovative and imaginative residential communities and mixed-use neighborhoods. As real estate has become more and more commoditized, Cowboy Partners is differentiated from the crowd by a passion for details and zeal to innovate in pursuit of compelling real estate solutions that support and complement the Cowboy commitment to quality and property resiliency over a long-term hold, which is typical within the portfolio. The success of Cowboy Partners is in large part a reflection of the accumulation of decades of experience focused into a teamwork-dominated culture that excels through collaboration. Cowboy Partners is responsible for some of the most remarkable developments in the Mountain West. Examples of housing innovation and boldness in the context of resiliency and investment durability follow.

Cowboy Properties

The mission of Cowboy Properties, which manages only Cowboy Partners developed and/or controlled properties, is to deliver on the promise of a compelling place to live or work. It is by delivering on that promise that we best ensure that the expectations of our partners and investors are unfailingly met, or exceeded, and how we are best able to contribute to the quality of the neighborhoods and communities where we do our work. The daily application of the Cowboy Properties hierarchy of priorities creates for our team a common purpose and a common understanding of what matters most, and it all starts with Happy Residents. In “Cowboy-speak” Happy Residents is a defined term, not something thrown around casually, but something we work and train to make happen. By being intentional about the quality of the experience our residents enjoy we create economic resilience and vitality in the investment performance of the marvelous assets in our stewardship, and that is the key concept in exceeding owners’, partners’ and investors’ expectations.