Joseph N. Knight
Founder & Principal

Joe started Tanalta to focus on overlooked submarkets and creative uses of land often overlooked by larger firms.

Since founding Tanalta, Joe purchased, repositioned and sold multiple industrial sites and developed the first new office buildings on the Square in Marietta. The Marietta Office Buildings set records for office rental rates and sold for the highest price per square foot of an office building in Marietta.

Prior to starting Tanalta, he started Strategic City Partners, a small consulting firm focusing on Community Improvement Districts.  His CID experience began when he served as the "boots-on-the-ground" consultant for the Gateway Marietta CID where he worked with businesses, property owners, and local government in the establishment of the CID.  While serving as the Executive Director of the Gateway Marietta CID, he over saw $350 million dollars in both private and public investment including attracting Atlanta United's $70 million Training Grounds. In addition to running the Gateway Marietta CID, he served as a start-up and project consultant to the Upper Westside CID.

Joe also founded Go Doorstep, a waste and recycling company focused on the multi-family space and along with his partner, Patrick Franks, has grown into Atlanta's largest doorstep waste company with operations in both Atlanta and Nashville, TN. Joe and his partners sold Go Doorstep in 2021 to a strategic buyer.

Before starting Strategic City Partners and Go Doorstep, Joe was an associate at  COMM360. While with COMM360, Joe helped to pass the Cobb E-SPLOST and the $68 Million Marietta Redevelopment Bond. He also served as the chief-fundraiser for a Georgia Supreme Court Judge, Harris Hines, and served as the Political Director for Georgia's Attorney General, Sam Olens. 

Upon graduation from Auburn University, Joe worked for Senator Johnny Isakson in Washington, D.C. before taking a job with General John Ashcroft’s law firm and business consulting firm, the Ashcroft Group. While at the Ashcroft Group, Joe was responsible for helping to push legislation through both chambers of Congress, including the controversial Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Accountability Law, and organizing one-of-a-kind media lunches for Senators, high-ranking Congressmen, and influential journalists in D.C.

Joe and his wife, Sarah, live with their two sons, Shepherd and Lewis, and daughter, Eliza, in the Wildwood neighborhood of Atlanta and attend Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Whitefield Academy and was named 30 Under 30 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2016.