West Dade Luncheon

Since taking the helm of the Allen Morris Company in 1980 at the age of 28, W. Allen Morris has taken the real estate firm his father established in 1958 to unimagined heights. The company has over 90 successful developments to its credit focusing selectively on best-in-class, award-winning, multi-family residential, office buildings, hotels, and mixed-used projects in unique locations with unparalleled amenities. The company currently has $3.5 billion in their new projects development pipeline.

He is the president or manager of over 100 real estate-related companies or partnerships. His professional designations include CCIM, SIOR, CPM, CRE, FRICS. 

Allen’s career spans more than 50 years in real estate development, brokerage & property management. He has received numerous professional distinctions including:

• 2016 Miami-Dade County Chairman of the Year Apogee Award from South Florida Business & Wealth Magazine
• 2017 Power Leader in Real Estate by the South Florida Business Journal 
• 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. 

Allen has been an active member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) since 1982 and the former Chairman of the Florida YPO Chapter. He also serves as a Board Member of The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the United Way, The McCallie School, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Allen is a graduate of The McCallie School, Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School, and is pursuing post-graduate studies at Oxford University.

He writes a blog: Allen Morris on Real Estate, and is the author of All In: How to Risk Everything for Everything that Matters, released in May 2022 by Simon & Schuster.

On the personal side, Allen is a Commercial-Rated Jet Pilot, 4th Degree Black Belt Tae Kwon Do Master and scuba diver. He is happily married to June Morris and very proud of his four adult children, two step-daughters and five grandchildren.