Real Estate 2025: MICHAEL A. CULPEPPER

As Venture Realty Group’s in-house attorney and managing partner, Culpepper coordinates deals, land-use entitlement and predevelopment services.

Previously, he was an associate with law firm Williams Mullen’s real estate and land use team and a principal with Fee Simple Legal, focusing on real estate transactions.

At Venture Realty, Culpepper works closely with Virginia Beach native and music and fashion superstar Pharrell Williams, collaborating with him and the City of Virginia Beach on the $350 million Atlantic Park surf park and entertainment venue. In May, The Dome concert venue, which has capacity for 3,500 people, held its grand opening, and in June, Atlantic Park Surf — a Wavegarden Cove surf facility — was filled with water, just before opening in July.

Culpepper earned his bachelor’s degree from William & Mary and a law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law as a John Marshall Scholar. Since its founding in 2016, Venture Realty Group has developed 6 million square feet of projects worth more than $600 million throughout Hampton Roads while providing development, leasing, brokerage, property management, asset management, consulting and tenant representation services.

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