Knoxx

Knoxx

Larry L. Van Tuyl built and ran the country's largest privately held auto dealership group before engineering its sale to Berkshire Hathaway in 2015. The Van Tuyl Group had 78 dealerships across ten states and moved roughly $9B in annual revenue at exit. Knoxx is the family office that consolidates management of the resulting Berkshire proceeds, operating from Wisconsin with additional presence in Kansas and Iowa. Knoxx deploys capital across a deliberately broad mandate. Real estate is a visible pillar — the office holds industrial properties, multifamily developments, and single-tenant net-lease assets in the Midwest and Mountain West. The firm also retains legacy automotive operating knowledge through controlled dealerships and real-estate-adjacent auto-service sites. A growing private-credit book extends financing to regional operating companies and real-estate sponsors in Knoxx's core geographies, doubling as a sourcing pipeline for future platform investments. The office is lean and geographically distributed. Headquarters span Madison and Little Chute, Wisconsin, with additional nodes in Monona, Wichita, and Des Moines. September 2024: Van Tuyl disclosed a new industrial development partnership in the Wichita metro area, expanding Knoxx's real-asset deployment in Kansas (per public record, 2024). The structure avoids an overly centralized investment committee, suggesting decision-making remains close to the principal. Knoxx's structural differentiation lies in its geographic footprint. Where most single-family offices cluster in coastal financial centers, Knoxx anchors itself across 2.5 million square miles of middle America — a posture that gives the firm informational advantages in market-rate industrial, workforce multifamily, and middle-market operating-company sourcing that coastal allocators find difficult to replicate.