Company Profile

Cocca Development, Ltd is a multi-faceted real estate development and operating company, headquartered in Boardman, Ohio with a satellite office in Sarasota, Florida. Formed by Anthony L. Cocca in 1999 to combine his various real estate holdings, the company has grown by acquiring, developing and building properties at a substantial rate. The company owns and manages a unique combination of commercial and residential properties. It is a family business continuing with its second generation, Anthony Cocca, as its current President.

The company’s properties are located throughout the United States, coast to coast from Maine to California and south to Florida. Residential properties are located primarily in Youngstown, Ohio and surrounding communities and consist of both multi- and single-family buildings. Commercial properties consist of a combination of freestanding retail stores, retail strip centers and multi-tenant buildings, and office, warehouse and industrial buildings. Additionally, the company owns hundreds of acres of vacant commercial and residential land for future development.

The company’s large number of free-standing retail stores are leased to national discount retailers Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar, which each operate a substantial number of stores throughout the country as well as Tractor Supply Company, a leading retailer in Farm and Home supplies. Currently Cocca Development is one of the largest developers, owners and lessors of space for these retailers. We are also building and developing new sites for TJ Maxx/Marshall’s, Five Below, Chipotle, Ollie’s Bargain Outlets, and Dunham’s Sporting Goods.

Strip center retail and free-standing commercial tenants include nationally recognized tenants, as well as local, retail and other businesses — including Aaron Rents, Advance Auto Parts, Anytime Fitness, Arby’s, Ashley Furniture & Home Store, AT&T, Big Y Supermarkets, Bomgaar’s Supply, Comcast, Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin Donuts, FedEx/Kinko’s, Fifth Third Bank, Fresenius Medical, Goodwill, H&R Block, Harbor Freight Tools, Huntington Bank, Hy-Vee Dollar Fresh Supermarkets, Jared the Galleria of Jewelers, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Kay Jewelers, Papa John’s Pizza, Planet Fitness, Shoe Show, Starbucks, Subway, T-Mobile, Walgreens Small Format Pharmacy, and Verizon Wireless.

Office, industrial and warehouse tenants include government agencies, rehabilitation and health services, and national tenants such as Ankle & Foot Centers, Crawford County Commissioners, Mentor Network, United States Postal Service, United States Social Security Administration, UPMC Physicians Services & Regional Health Services, and West Central Job Partnership/Mercer County Career Link.

The company’s principal, Anthony L. Cocca, has owned and operated real estate since he was a teenager, and has also owned and operated other successful businesses throughout his career. At a young age, he began working in the construction business with his father. In 1984, in addition to owning and leasing residential real estate, he formed Videoland, and opened his first video rental store. Videoland grew to 50 stores, becoming the 21st-largest video store chain in the United States. In 1996 Mr. Cocca combined Videoland with several other successful video store chains, raising $74 million in an initial public offering, and sold to West Coast Entertainment, forming the second-largest video store chain in the United States. Mr. Cocca remained with West Coast for one year after the IPO and upon leaving, formed Ohio Medical Supply Company, which he sold in 1999 to the largest medical supply company in the United States, Physician Sales and Service/PSS World Medical. During the periods of owning and operating these diversified businesses, Mr. Cocca continued to own, operate and acquire real estate. After selling Ohio Medical Supply, he decided to focus solely on real estate and began to increase his holdings through development and acquisition of additional commercial and residential properties. The development of commercial property has become the main focus of Cocca Development recently. Mr. Cocca also formed and is the principal of Cocca Real Estate, a full-service real estate brokerage for both commercial and residential property sales.