Live from San Juan, host Daven Michaels sits down with real-estate investor Kira Golden to unpack smart, impact-driven investing across Puerto Rico and beyond. From an Aguadilla industrial campus being transformed into an R&D park with a solar microgrid, to Rio Piedras mixed-use revivals and an Old San Juan hospitality project leveraging tax credits—Kira breaks down the fundamentals, the incentives (Act 60, Opportunity Zones, hospitality credits), and why deals must “pencil on their own” before you layer benefits.
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Kira Golden
Kira Golden is a real-estate investor and operator focused on fundamentals-first, impact-oriented projects in Puerto Rico and the mainland US. Over the past decade on-island, she’s acquired and repositioned assets spanning industrial (Aguadilla R&D park + solar microgrid), mixed-use housing and retail in Rio Piedras, and hospitality in Old San Juan (leveraging a 40% tax credit). Kira actively bridges stateside capital with local partnerships, works with lenders and underwriters (including HUD-style conversations and PR-based bridge lenders), and structures deals to stand on their own economics before layering incentives like Act 60 and Opportunity Zones. She also connects PR-sourced investors to stateside exposure (e.g., a 258-unit Ohio community) and collaborates with WD Wealth Strategies on turnkey solar tax credit companies for qualifying investors.
