Our Team
Frank BuonanotteMr. Buonanotte has extensive entrepreneurial and corporate management experience. He has founded several successful companies that continue to operate throughout the southeast and has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for each of them.
Under Mr. Buonanotte's leadership from its formation in 1983 until his retirement in 2003, The Shopping Center Group (TSCG) grew to become the dominant retail real estate service provider in the southeast. With offices located in 19 cities throughout the region, TSCG serves its clients in the areas of tenant representation, shopping center leasing, asset & property management, land & investment property sales, development, syndication and consulting.
Mr. Buonanotte formed Party City of Atlanta (PCA) in 1992 and, under his direction it has become the largest and most successful franchisee of Party City Corporation. PCA operates 25 superstores selling paper goods and party supplies at deep discount prices.
Prior to his entrepreneurial experience in real estate & retail, he was as an executive with several different companies including Six Flags Corp. and Bell & Howell. Mr. Buonanotte's corporate experience includes management and senior management positions in corporate development, marketing, advertising & promotion, and sales.
He has completed the YPO President's Program at the Harvard Business School as well as the YPO President's Program at The Aspen Institute.
Mr. Buonanotte has served on numerous Boards of Directors for various other companies and organizations including service as Chairman of Robert Pattillo Properties and Chairman of ChainLinks Retail Advisors.
He was awarded the 2002 Georgia Business Ethics Award by the American Society of Financial Advisors and Georgia State University.
Mr. Buonanotte was named "1997 Man of the Year" by ChainLinks, an international organization comprised of over 500 retail real estate advisors.
Under his leadership, The Shopping Center Group received three separate awards for Best Real Estate Deal from the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Ernst & Young.