About Us

Bryan Manning
Thomas Stanley II
Bryan Manning joined High Rise Investments (HRI) as Principal, where he partners with Tom Stanley to manage acquisitions, deal structuring, asset management, capital raising, and banking and investor relationships. Manning most recently was Regional Vice President at Michael Franks LLC, a leading local real estate syndicator focused on the multi-family sector. He has significant experience in real estate investments, particularly in the multi-family asset class.

Bryan has over 20 years of banking experience at leading national and global financial institutions in the Chicago market. Manning spent 7+ years at ABN AMRO / LaSalle Bank, where he was a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group. As a Senior Relationship Banker he was responsible for managing the client relations and activities with leading investment management and alternative asset managers. Previously he served as a Senior Credit Portfolio Manager, also in the Financial Institutions Group. Manning developed extensive experience in Capital Markets, Credit Products, Structured Credit and Derivatives.

Prior to ABN AMRO, Bryan was a Director at First Chicago / Bank One. During his 13 years in their Corporate and Institutional Bank, Manning held positions in various areas, including Asset Securitization, Capital Markets Credit, Risk Management, and Project Management.


Tom Stanley has been in the commercial real estate business for over 24 years. His roots are in multi-family housing. Fairly early in his career he launched a building company, and transitioned from multi-family to build a chain of health clubs (1990’s). Tom sold this chain in the late 1990’s to focus exclusively on real estate development and income production through multi family.

In early 2000 he launched a building group around single family homes, a basic buy, rehab/expand, and sell strategy. In 2004, Tom foresaw the end of the housing boom, and thus exited this strategy (very timely). He then transitioned his building group to focus on building churches, a business that is vibrant today. In fact he is active in the Indianapolis, Illinois and Wisconsin markets currently through this activity. (Note: Tom has two businesses today, Progressive Vision Management, Inc and High Rise Investments, Inc.)

Tom still owns several properties throughout the Midwest, however, the history of builds as well as buildings owned over the years is too extensive for this document.

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Christine Thompson
BAIRD & WARNER Realtor Associate

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