Historic Redevelopment

Elias Hionides is the Vice President of PETRA, a family-owned real estate development and brokerage company who focuses on urban development, historic redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects. 

Currently, PETRA has over 1 million square feet of commercial real estate under management. After graduating from the University of Miami with degrees in finance, marketing, and urban studies, Elias began working at the family business. An urban planner at heart, Elias is always looking for ways for PETRA to fill voids in the Jacksonville development field, with a focus to bring dense, walkable, and community-driven projects to the market.

Elias has brokered over $60 million in sales and leases since 2011 and is an active member of ICSC, ULI, serves on the board of Downtown Vision, and is part of the Commercial Corridors Committee of Springfield Preservation and Revitalization (SPAR). In addition to his professional life, Elias is a patron and participant of the arts.

He attended FSCJ with a scholarship for voice prior to his business degree at UMiami, participates regularly in community theater, and has been appointed by Mayor Lenny Curry to the Art in Public Places Committee for the City of Jacksonville.  Recently, Elias was named a 2018 CoStar Power Broker and was a Jacksonville Business Journal 40 Under 40 in 2019.

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