Real Estate Developer • Speaker | Founder: LRED • Elevate SWFL • I&D
Real Estate Developer Building Community-Led Projects in Florida.
MEET KRISTI
Kristi Kandel is a Florida-based real estate developer behind $450M+ in projects across the U.S. She is currently developing Elevate SWFL, a sports and wellness destination in Bonita Springs built around connection and community.
Through the Local Real Estate Developers, Kristi shares how development actually works. Her work is focused on empowering locals to take an active role in shaping what gets built in their own communities.
What I’m Building Now
Elevate SWFL is a sports, wellness, food, and community destination coming to Bonita Springs. It is designed to bring people together through movement, recovery, events, and everyday connection.
+20 Years
Real Estate Development, Consulting, and Investing
+$450M+
Development Projects Managed
Nationwide
+50K Hours
Dedicated to Real Estate Development
Podcast
Local Real Estate Developers
Empowering locals to become developers in their town
LOCAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS (LRED)
LRED helps remove the gatekeeping around real estate development by giving locals the language, tools, and real-world examples they need to lead projects in their own communities.
I&D CONSULTING
Through I&D Consulting, Kristi helps developers, owners, and partners move projects forward through entitlements, approvals, dry utilities, project strategy, and pre-development execution.
PODCAST / MEDIA
🎙️Local Real Estate Developer Podcast
Real deals. Real decisions. Real developers.
We sit down with locals actively building projects and break down what it actually took to get there, the deals that worked, the ones that almost didn’t, and everything in between.
This isn’t theory. It’s what’s happening on the ground.
Main Street isn’t waiting on Wall Street anymore.
It’s being built by locals.
KRISTI KANDEL 