Guaranty Bank & Trust Forms Strategic Partnership with Caliber
September 07 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Revitalizing Communities with the Community
Reinvestment Act
ueaGuaranty Bancshares, Inc., (NASDAQ: GNTY), the parent company
of Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A., today announced that its bank
subsidiary has formed a partnership with Caliber (CaliberCos Inc.),
a vertically-integrated alternative asset manager and fund sponsor,
in an effort to drive investments that will revitalize communities
across Texas through real estate developments.
Consistent with the goals of the Community Reinvestment Act
(CRA), Guaranty and Caliber will provide increased affordable
housing opportunities by investing in low and moderate income (LMI)
neighborhoods. Guaranty is supplying Caliber with capital that
Caliber will invest alongside its Caliber Tax-Advantaged
Opportunity Zone Fund, LP – combining the Opportunity Zone tax
incentive with community reinvestment.
“This is a transformative time in Caliber’s history,” stated
John Hartman, Chief Investment Officer of Caliber. “As we expand
our investment platform across private and public markets, we
anticipate that our partnership with Guaranty will continue to
evolve and grow in tandem with our initiatives to develop wealth
for our investors and the communities we invest in.”
The capital structure consists of $50 million of total funds to
deploy into qualified real estate developments. Caliber will manage
the funds as a sidecar to its existing U.S.-based fund platform
while focusing its efforts on Texas based markets, such as Austin,
Bryan/College Station and Dallas, along with Guaranty. Further,
Caliber will be tasked with sourcing appropriate developments,
acquiring, and managing those developments, as well as reporting
its progress to Guaranty.
Ty Abston, CEO of Guaranty stated, “We are proud to be
partnering with Caliber to provide an attractive capital source
that will fund Caliber’s initiatives to revitalize low and moderate
income communities within the Austin, Bryan/College Station and
Dallas markets through their dedicated opportunity zone funds and
other real estate centric funds.”
ABOUT GUARANTY BANCSHARES, INC. and GUARANTY BANK &
TRUST
Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company that
conducts commercial banking activities through its wholly-owned
subsidiary, Guaranty Bank & Trust, N.A. As one of the oldest
regional community banks in Texas, Guaranty Bank & Trust
provides its customers with a full array of relationship-driven
commercial and consumer banking products and services, as well as
mortgage, trust, and wealth management services. Guaranty Bank
& Trust has 31 banking locations across 24 Texas communities
located within the East Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth, greater Houston
and Central Texas regions of the state. As of June 30, 2021,
Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. had total assets of $2.93 billion, total
loans of $1.89 billion and total deposits of $2.53 billion. Visit
gnty.com for more information.
ABOUT CALIBER
Caliber – the Wealth Development Company – is a middle-market
alternative asset manager and fund sponsor with approximately $500
million in assets under management. The Company sponsors private
funds, private syndications, as well as externally-managed real
estate investment trusts (REITs). It conducts substantially all
business through CaliberCos, Inc., a vertically integrated series
of businesses that are strengthened by more than 70 professionals
with decades of experience in commercial real estate, capital
markets, alternative investments as well as mergers and
acquisitions. The Company strives to build wealth for its investors
by offering a diverse host of investment solutions that fit its
investors’ optimal balance of risk-adjusted returns and attractive
investment performance. Caliber primarily focuses on middle-market
growth areas, such as Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Idaho
and Alaska. The Company assesses other markets that have similar
supply and demand fundamentals with emerging population and job
growth. Caliber delivers a full suite of alternative investments to
a $4 trillion market that includes high net worth, accredited and
qualified investors, as well as family offices and smaller
institutions. This strategy allows the Company to opportunistically
compete in an evolving middle-market arena for alternative
investments that range between $5 million and $50 million on a
per-project basis. Additional information can be found at
www.CaliberCo.com and www.CaliberFunds.co.
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Guaranty Contact Cappy Payne Senior Executive Vice
President & CFO Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. 1-888-572-9881
investors@gnty.com Caliber Contact Victoria Rotondo
1-480-295-7600 Victoria.Rotondo@CaliberCo.com Caliber Investor
Contact Mary Jensen 1-310-526-1707 Mary.Jensen@CaliberCo.com
Caliber Media Contact Susan Assadi 1-480-510-4881
Susan.Assadi@gapr.biz
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