Real Estate and Small Business Services
Advice and Consultation
Detroit Business Solutions, delivers expert real estate counseling and small business advisory services tailored to Michigan entrepreneurs. Drawing on more than three decades of experience and over $100 million brokered in industrial and commercial real estate transactions, we offer strategic guidance on investment property acquisitions, divestitures, and complex deal negotiations. As a one-stop resource, the firm also supports business owners through every step—from financing solutions when traditional lenders fall short, to personalized assistance navigating the emotional and logistical challenges of selling or acquiring a business. Whether optimizing business value or helping clients stay focused on operations during complex transactions, Detroit Business Solutions delivers practical, results-driven counsel grounded in deep industry knowledge.
Sell Your Business
Selling a business is more than a financial transaction — it’s the transition of your hard work, your vision, and your legacy. At Detroit Business Solutions, we specialize in helping business owners successfully navigate this important process from start to finish. We recognize that every business is unique and that selling requires more than just finding a buyer. It takes preparation, strategy, and the right connections to achieve the best results.
Our team works closely with you to understand your goals, your timeline, and the true value of your company. We provide in-depth guidance on preparing your business for sale, from organizing financial records to identifying strengths that enhance market appeal. Using proven methods and local market insight, we help determine a fair and competitive valuation that positions your business effectively with qualified buyers.
Legal and Identity Protection
LegalShield strives to build a better world where access to justice and security is equal for every human – no longer simply sold to the highest bidder. We have taken our mission to provide access to the Liberty, Equality, Opportunity and Justice that every human deserves and expects and we’re rapidly expanding it through technology. We are a leader in our
industry, but we are just getting started.
LegalShield is innovating and disrupting the traditional legal system; a system that is expensive, complicated and time consuming. Through technology and our provider law firm network, legal access is now simple, easy and affordable.
About Kelvin Walker
Kelvin Walker is the Managing Director of Detroit Business Solutions, a Michigan-based business and commercial real estate advisory firm.
A Michigan-licensed real estate broker with more than 40 years of experience in industrial real estate, commercial brokerage, and business brokerage, Kelvin has spent his career helping business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, and companies work through important property and business decisions.
Today, Kelvin works selectively with clients who want an experienced perspective before making a major commitment. His clients may be considering a first commercial lease, a business
acquisition, a building purchase, a lease renewal, a relocation, an expansion, a business sale, or an eventual exit.
Clarity Before Commitment
A business or property decision can look simple at first. Renew the lease. Buy the building. Move to a larger facility. Acquire the business. Sell the company.
In reality, those decisions can involve timing, financing, operations, growth plans, lease obligations, ownership structure, future sale considerations, facility requirements, and the need
to coordinate several professional advisors.
Kelvin helps clients slow down and think through the decision before they move forward. His role is not to compete for listings, show properties, market businesses or buildings, or negotiate
transactions. Instead, he helps clients clarify what they are trying to accomplish, identify key questions and risks, and determine what needs to happen next.
A Tailored Decision Roadmap
Kelvin’s work is not based on a generic checklist. He takes the time to understand the client’s business, objectives, timing, concerns, and available options before developing a tailored Business & Property Decision Roadmap.
The Roadmap helps clients organize the decision, identify priorities and unanswered questions, recognize potential blind spots, and understand the next steps. Kelvin draws on decades of industrial, commercial, and business brokerage experience to help clients identify issues that may not be obvious at the outset of the process—before they become costly commitments or missed opportunities.
General information can be useful, but it cannot account for the specific facts of a client’s business, property, timing, financial situation, and long-term goals. Kelvin helps clients apply experienced judgment to their particular situation and move forward with a clearer plan.
When the next step requires additional expertise, Kelvin helps clients think through which professionals may need to be involved and how to approach their selection carefully. Depending on the situation, that may include an active broker, attorney, CPA, lender, appraiser, environmental consultant, business intermediary, or another qualified specialist.
His role is to help clients understand the questions those professionals should address and to approach the next phase with a team whose experience, communication style, and approach fit
the client’s particular situation.
The initial advisory engagement is designed to provide clarity, structure, and a practical roadmap. In many cases, the next step is to engage the appropriate specialist. When a client needs additional advisory support, Detroit Business Solutions may consider a separate, clearly defined engagement based on the client’s needs and the nature of the work.
Experience
Before founding Detroit Business Solutions, Kelvin was an Associate Business Broker with Capital Business Brokerage. During his real estate career, he brokered more than $100 million in industrial transactions and worked with companies on industrial facilities, commercial real estate, business expansion, acquisitions, and transition projects.
Kelvin previously served as a Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle, a Director with KW Commercial in Northville and Royal Oak, Michigan, and an industrial broker with Cushman & Wakefield. His experience includes work with companies such as Ameritech, now AT&T; Ashley Capital; Central Transport; and Ryder Integrated Logistics. He also worked on the redevelopment of Chrysler Corporation’s former world headquarters in Highland Park, Michigan—then one of the largest brownfield redevelopment projects in the United States—now known as Oakland Park.
Kelvin is known for being practical, direct, and able to bring order to complicated situations. He understands that important business and property decisions are often personal as well as financial, and he approaches client conversations with discretion.
Is This a Fit?
Detroit Business Solutions is best suited for entrepreneurs and business owners facing a significant business or commercial property decision and who want to think carefully before committing significant time, capital, or resources.
The process begins with a confidential fit call. If the situation is a fit, Kelvin will explain the focused advisory process, the scope of the Business & Property Decision Session, and the next steps.
Request a confidential fit call with Detroit Business Solutions.
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