Strategic Advisory · Milwaukee & Beyond
Agee Partners is a consulting agency that helps communities and individuals achieve their goals across real estate, economic development, and strategic impact — from buying and selling property to turning corridors into engines of opportunity.
The Mission · The Belief
The work is rooted in a single conviction: no neighborhood should be defined by what it lacks. Where there's a vacant building, bring a business. Where there's vacant land, build something catalytic. Where there's disinvestment, stack the capital and the partners to reverse it.
Deshea Agee leads this work through Agee Partners — a consulting agency that helps communities and individuals achieve their goals across real estate, economic development, and strategic impact, with the public-sector fluency and private-sector discipline to actually close deals.
Revitalization in progress · King Drive corridor
The Record
$250M+
Investment catalyzed along the King Drive corridor
15+
Years in economic development & real estate
Zero
Vacancy — a vision for no empty storefronts or land
M.S.
Construction Management, UW-Stout
Selected Work
A blend of public-sector leadership and private-sector advisory — projects that fill vacant land, reclaim blighted parcels, and put capital to work where it compounds.
BID Leadership · 2016–2021
$250M+ invested in the district
Advocating for local businesses, recruiting new tenants, and overseeing the corridor's transformation into a model of what a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive can be.
Historic King Drive BID · Milwaukee, WI
No vacant land · No vacant buildings
An ongoing vision to fill every empty storefront and lot along King Drive — bringing tenants, jobs, and catalytic development that compounds block by block.
The Multiplier · Model the Impact
Every dollar placed into a community corridor does more than one job. Drag the slider to project how an investment translates into jobs, businesses, and activated space — the compounding return of strategic capital.
Investment Amount
$2.5M
75
Jobs created & supported
Direct + indirect
20
Businesses recruited & retained
New tenants + existing
45,000
Sq ft of vacant space activated
Storefronts + land
$6M
Total corridor investment catalyzed
Public + private leverage
Illustrative projections based on corridor development outcomes · Not a financial guarantee
UW-Stout Polytechnic · #StoutProud
September 2026
Featured Story · Just Published
Deshea Agee '18 is shaping stronger communities through economic development, real estate, entrepreneurship and strategic consulting.
"It means to me that my work will live beyond me."
— Deshea Agee
The Practice
Four disciplines, one mission: help communities and individuals achieve their goals — across real estate, economic development, and strategic impact.
Guiding individuals and organizations through the purchase and sale of real estate — from site selection and acquisition to disposition, with the market fluency and deal discipline to protect your position at every step. Deshea Agee is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Wisconsin and leads this practice directly.
Helping communities build strategies for business recruitment, retention, and engagement with government — the connective tissue between property owners, entrepreneurs, and city hall that turns a district into an engine.
From master-planned communities to catalytic neighborhood projects, advising on development that compounds value for communities and capital partners — bridging the private development and public-sector worlds.
Taking vision through to completion — coordinating teams, timelines, budgets, and stakeholders so catalytic projects actually get built and deliver on their promise to the community.
Speaking & Thought Leadership
Resilience and rootedness — turning the lived experience of Milwaukee's most challenged ZIP code into a blueprint for community-led revitalization.
How a refusal to accept vacant land and buildings reshapes an entire commercial corridor and the lives of the people who call it home.
Stacking city, state, and federal tools with private capital to close the gap on deals that build wealth in historically disinvested neighborhoods.
Let's build together
Whether you're a city planning a district, a developer pursuing a catalytic project, or a community ready to reclaim its blocks — let's talk.
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