About Us
Anderson Capital was founded by two St. Louis entrepreneurs who built one of the region’s most respected e-commerce businesses before turning their operational expertise toward real estate development.
The company’s origin story is as fitting as it is unlikely. Andrew Hoefener and Chad Weinman were vacationing with their families at Beaver Creek when they found themselves in the Great Room at the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch — a lodge-inspired bar anchored by a three-story stone fireplace, the kind of place that has a way of slowing a conversation down and making it honest. It was a powder day, the après-ski scene was going full tilt around them, and somewhere in that atmosphere of energy and warmth, the idea crystallized. By the time they left that conversation, they had conceived the company and agreed to make an offer on a parcel of land.
That offer set the wheels in motion. The high-energy, move-fast spirit of that afternoon — equal parts vision and momentum — carried into Anderson Capital’s early days as the team took on its first major project: Commerce Park West, a ground-up $20 million industrial development that would define what the company was built to do.
The Great Room at The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch
Partners
Chad Weinman’s path to real estate development began where most don’t expect: a one-bedroom apartment and a laptop. In 2004, Chad launched his first online store from scratch, targeting a niche market with precision and a performance marketer’s instincts. The bet paid off. That initial store became the foundation of a St. Louis-based e-commerce company that grew to tens of millions in annual revenue and hundreds of thousands of customers across multiple product verticals.
As the company’s founder and driving strategic force, Chad developed an operator’s understanding of what industrial real estate actually needs to deliver — and where the St. Louis market was falling short. When scaling his distribution business demanded space that could handle serious fulfillment volume while still serving as a home for a Top Workplace culture, he and his partner Andrew Hoefener decided to stop looking and start building.
That decision became Anderson Capital and, ultimately, Commerce Park West.
Chad was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal with its 40 Under 40 award in 2014. A University of Arizona graduate, he remains active as an investor and entrepreneur across e-commerce, technology, and real estate.
Andrew Hoefener brings more than 25 years of operational, technology, and strategic leadership to Anderson Capital’s real estate development work. A former Big Four ERP consultant with KPMG, Andrew entered the digital space in 1999, founding a widely read technical journal covering enterprise applications before joining a St. Louis e-commerce company as one of its earliest employees in 2007. He served as President for a decade before being named Chief Executive Officer — leading the company through five years of continued growth and earning recognition as a Top Workplace by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch three consecutive times.
It was Andrew’s search for the right industrial facility — one that could function as both a serious operational hub and a home for an exceptional company culture — that ultimately led him and Chad Weinman to found Anderson Capital. That firsthand experience as an operator in need of space shaped Commerce Park West from the ground up: a $20 million development built to deliver exactly what the market wasn’t offering.
Today Andrew focuses on identifying and pursuing new opportunities for Anderson Capital, applying a tech-forward, data-driven lens to site selection, market analysis, and asset strategy. A recognized expert in digital marketing and emerging technology, he also advises startups and growth-stage companies — work that keeps him closely attuned to how businesses actually use and value their physical space. That perspective informs everything Anderson Capital builds.