ATLANTA — Columbia Residential, an affordable housing developer and property manager based in Atlanta, has selected Ken Clark for the role of Chief Operating Officer. In this position, Clark will provide executive oversight for the financial operations of the company’s business units, including accounting, finance, human resources and corporate compliance functions. He will work out of Columbia Residential’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta. Clark is a graduate of Morehouse College and earned an MBA in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech.
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NEW YORK CITY — M&T Bank has appointed Lopa Kolluri to the role of Head of Affordable Housing Lending. In this new position, Kolluri will be responsible for the development, oversight and management of the Affordable Housing vertical within M&T’s Commercial Bank. Kolluri will also work closely with divisions of M&T’s Community Bank and M&T Realty Capital Corp.’s Affordable Housing Platform. She will be based in New York City. Kolluri previously served as Senior Vice President within M&T’s Commercial Real Estate Innovation Office. Prior to joining M&T, Kolluri served as the …
CARMEL, IND. — Merchants Capital, an agency lender and tax credit equity syndicator based in Carmel, has promoted Chris Messmann to the role of executive vice president. In this position, Messmann will oversee the asset management, fund and risk management teams in the company’s tax credit equity division, including pre-closing financial projections and post-closing investor reporting. Messmann joined Merchants Capital in 2021. Prior to this, he served in a leadership role for 10 years at a national tax credit equity syndicator and was a tax accountant at Low Income Housing …
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Capstone Development Partners has hired Jordan Gaston to the new leadership role of vice president, head of workforce housing. In this role, Gaston will take part in the company’s efforts to expand its business into the financing, development and operation of workforce housing. He previously served as the Director of Finance within Capstone’s finance division from 2016 to 2021. Most recently, he held the position of vice president in Citigroup’s public finance department.
LOS ANGELES — Kevin Sheehan has rejoined JLL Capital Markets as Managing Director in the firm’s Los Angeles office. In this new role, Sheehan will be responsible for institutional multifamily investment sale advisory and equity placement within the metro-Los Angeles area. Prior to rejoining JLL, Sheehan was responsible for multifamily investments in Southern California and nationally for an undisclosed developer.
CHICAGO — JLL Capital Markets has added Rasto Gallo and Mike Klaskin as senior directors with the firm’s national affordable housing investment sales advisory team. Gallo and Klaskin will be based out of the firm’s Chicago office. They will report to Senior Managing Directors Danny Kauffman and Jaime Fink, who co-lead the office, as well as Senior Managing Director Doug Childers, who serves as the affordable housing investment sales advisory group leader. Additionally, they will work alongside Managing Director Michael Fox and Director Melissa Bloem on the affordable housing investment sales …
PHOENIX — JLL Capital Markets has added Brian Smuckler, Jeff Seaman, Derek Smigiel and Bryson Fricke to the firm’s multifamily investment sales advisory team in Phoenix. The team will focus on multifamily investment sales, including private capital and institutional deals. They will report to Ben Geelan and Brad Miner, who serve as co-leads of the Phoenix office. Prior to joining JLL, the team was a part of CBRE’s Phoenix Multifamily Investment Properties team. Most recently, Smuckler and Seaman held positions as executive vice presidents and co-leads of the team, and …
NEW YORK CITY — The New York City Housing Partnership Development Corp. has elected Ron Moelis as chairman of the board of directors. Moelis is the chairman and co-founder of L+M Development Partners LLC, which is headquartered in Larchmont, New York. He is also a co-founder and vice chairman of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, a nonprofit organization that advances a policy agenda for affordable housing. Moelis also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the Board of …
NEWTON, MASS. — Newton-based 2Life Communities has promoted Zoe Weinrobe to the role of chief of real estate. In this role, she will oversee the company’s development projects. 2Life Communities’ current developments include Opus Newton, the redevelopment of the J.J. Carroll Apartments in Brighton with the Boston Housing Authority, and Brooke House at Olmsted Village in Mattapan, Massachusetts. Weinrobe originally joined 2Life Communities in 2016. Prior to this, she served as vice president at Recap Real Estate Advisors. Weinrobe also worked at Urban Edge CDC, the Cambridge Housing Authority, and the …
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Cushman & Wakefield has hired Whittaker Potts as an executive managing director with the firm’s Sunbelt Multifamily Advisory Group. Potts will work alongside advisors Martin Bynum, Cole Herget, Matt Stephens and Stephen Pestinger to cover multifamily investment sales in Arkansas, Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma. He will be based in the firm’s Kansas City office. Potts received a bachelor of arts in communication studies from the University of Kansas and currently holds a real estate license in both Kansas and Missouri.