About Us
Company Overview
Garrison Companies develops multi-family and mixed-use properties across the Mountain and Plains states—now expanding nationwide. Our management team ensures quality rental housing, catering to both affordable and market-rate needs while serving our investors and communities effectively.
Garrison “Gary” Hassenflu
Garrison “Gary” Hassenflu has over 25 years of commercial real estate brokerage and development experience in areas throughout the Midwest and Mountain States and has personally developed over $140,000,000 in assets in these areas. Before entering the real estate business, he was an accountant with Arthur Young Company, Kansas City, from 1983 to 1984, where Mr. Hassenflu was responsible for preparing tax returns for various individuals, partnerships, and corporations.
Our History
From November 1984 to February 1991, he was a Sales and Development Associate with the Leo Eisenberg Company, Kansas City, one of the largest developers and managers of retail developments in the country. Mr. Hassenflu was responsible for the selling, leasing, and managing of office, retail, industrial, and multi-family property, as well as property syndication and development.
From March 1991 to November 1997, Garrison Hassenflu served as Owner/Broker of Garrison Commercial, Prairie Village, KS, where he acted as a broker of all types of commercial real estate and as an independent consultant on the acquisition/rehab, site selection, tax credit application, and financing of low to moderate income housing tax credit projects in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Utah, Colorado, Kentucky, and Arkansas. In November 1997, Mr. Hassenflu formed Garrison Development Company (GDC) to develop LIHTC and mixed-income developments in the above areas. In April 2001, Mr. Hassenflu formed Garrison Management Company (GMC) to manage the LIHTC communities that GDC developed. GDC and GMC operate to the present. Mr. Hassenflu is very knowledgeable and capable of combining numerous public and private sources of funds to make an affordable project feasible.
From 1997 to the present day, Mr. Hassenflu has developed, owned, and managed over 1400 residential units in six states, represented in 18 living communities. The types of development include affordable and market-rate rental residential, commercial, and mixed-use development. The construction types vary from new construction to adaptive re-uses of historic structures to acquisition/rehab. Many of Mr. Hassenflu’s latest developments include very challenging adaptive re-uses of warehouses and offices for residential use in second- and third-tier cities in the Midwest and Mountain States.