Icons of DC Area Real Estate

Bio Ethan Penner is a founder of Mosaic Real Estate and its Managing Partner. He is a recognized pioneer in the fields of real estate and finance with a 30-year career marked by filling voids and responding to unseen or poorly understood opportunities. Most consequently, he is credited with being the primary driver in the creation of the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities market for which he re...

Bio Jeff Berkes, President and Chief Operating Officer, joined Federal Realty (FRT) in 2000 as Chief Investment Officer, and in 2011, became President, Western Region, where he was charged with growing the company’s presence on that coast. During the period between 2011 and 2019, the property operating income of Federal’s West Coast portfolio more than doubled, representing over 10% compound annua...

Bio Bob Harris is a land use and real estate attorney with Lerch, Early and Brewer who helps landowners strategically improve the use and value of their real estate. He represents commercial, residential, and institutional landowners before planning commissions, courts, government agencies, and elected officials to obtain development approvals and protect land use rights in Montgomery County, Mary...

Bio Matthew Pestronk is co-founder of Post Brothers , a real estate investment, development and management company with singular and unique expertise in urban real estate development. Matthew serves as President of the company, engaged in the sponsorship of 40 Class-A multifamily, mixed-use and retail development projects comprised of over 8,000 units that are operating, under development or dispo...

John Coe & David Orr Bio David Orr, founder and Chairman of Orr Partners, possesses 40 years of experience and has been involved in over 20 million square feet of construction projects. Mr. Orr began his career with one of the world’s largest construction companies, Morse Diesel, where he oversaw projects in New York City such as the Park Lane Hotel in Central Park South and 88 Pine Street. Af...

Bio A third-generation builder/developer, Bob founded Buchanan Partners ’ predecessor company more than 40 years ago and launched Buchanan Partners in 1998. Under Bob’s guidance, Buchanan Partners has become one of the leading full-service real estate firms in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. From its early focus on flex/industrial buildings, Buchanan is now involved in the development, own...

Gary Rappaport and John Coe Bio Gary D. Rappaport, is Chief Executive Officer of Rappaport, a retail real estate company he founded in 1984. Rappaport provides leasing, tenant representation, management and development services for more than 14.7 million square feet. Rappaport’s portfolio includes more than 76 shopping centers and ground floor retail in some 115 mixed-use properties, both resident...

Bio Harold Green CEO and Ecopreneur Mr. Green is a lifelong entrepreneur focused on developing and investing in cutting edge business solutions that embrace technology as a means to improve the performance and longevity of products or services. With youthful zeal and a lifelong creative talent to seek out new and existing challenges, Harold’s business interests have evolved from the traditional as...

Bio Robert “Bob” Cohen recently retired from Perseus-TDC (now known as Transwestern Development Company). Bob founded Perseus in 2004 after leaving Insignia ESG, a large commercial brokerage firm that was acquired at that time by CBRE. Perseus, now Transwestern, is a significant development company that has produced over 20 projects in the region totaling about 3.8MM s.f. in office, apartment, hot...

Bio As President and CEO of The Bozzuto Group , Toby Bozzuto provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for more than 3,000 employees across the country and guides future growth of Bozzuto’s homebuilding, multifamily development, construction and management divisions. Celebrating 35 years in business in 2023, Bozzuto manages 88,000 apartments and three million square feet of retail space across...

Bio Chris Clemente founded the Comstock organization in 1985 and has guided its growth and diversification since its inception. Mr. Clemente managed the growth of Comstock as a private enterprise until the 2004 initial public offering of Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHCI), now known as Comstock Holding Companies ® , Inc. (“Comstock” or “Company”). Since the IPO, Mr. Clemente has...

Art Fuccillo & John Coe Art and Cill Fuccillo Art at 8 yrs. old Bio Arthur (Art) Fuccillo is the Executive Vice President of Development for Lerner Enterprises , perhaps the most valuable private real estate company in the Washington, DC region. Art has been with Lerner Enterprises since 1981 and began his career there as General Counsel. He expanded his role to lead development efforts for al...

Bio Tom Fulcher- Vice Chairman, Mid-Atlantic Region Lead, Director, Washington, D.C Since joining Savills in 1986, Tom has focused on providing real estate services on behalf of major tenants to get the best possible results in the Washington area and throughout the United States. Clients include law firms (Allen & Overy, Arent Fox, Blank Rome, Covington & Burling, Kilpatrick Townsend &amp...

Bio After developing high-end mixed-use projects in Washington, DC in the 1980s and ‘90s, Byrne co-founded BAA-McArthurGlen, the company that imported the designer outlet concept to the UK and Europe. After opening the company’s Paris office in 1992, he led its expansion across Europe, resulting in more than $1 billion in annual sales. His story is told in his book, Le Deal . He then developed pri...

Bio Kenneth Bacon is Co-founder and Managing Partner of RailField Partners. Prior to forming RailField, Ken spent 19 years at Fannie Mae , most recently as Executive Vice President and Head of the Multifamily Business. During his tenure, Ken oversaw a portfolio of $195 billion in assets, consisting of multifamily mortgages, conventional equity, low-income housing tax credits and mezzanine debt. Pr...

Bio Christopher Ballard, co-founder and principal of McWilliams|Ballard , began his career in residential development sales and marketing over 30 years ago working for Washington, D.C. developers such as Hazel/Peterson and Charles E. Smith. Christopher and his business partner Ross McWilliams founded the firm in 1996. McWilliams|Ballard’s primary focus is collaborating with developers in the conce...

Brad Docker & John Coe Bio Bradford H. Dockser is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Green Generation. Founded in 2011, GreenGen transforms the built environment through its visionary end-to-end approach to innovation and solutions that integrate energy, real estate, technology, and capital markets to Operate in the Green . GreenGen helps its clients profitably transition to a zero-...

Bio David Roodberg is President of The Menkiti Group , where he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the business including development, capital, commercial real estate, and strategic planning. He was formerly the CEO and President of Horning Brothers for over 20 years. He serves on the boards of Greater Washington Community Foundation, Urban Land Institute Executive Committee in DC, Wesle...

Bio Todd S. Rich is the Co-Founder and Partner of Declaration Partners and the Head of Real Estate, serving as chairman of Declaration’s Real Estate Investment Committee. Todd, who is based in the Bethesda, MD office, co-founded Declaration with two decades of multi-market real estate investing and operating experience including acquisitions, dispositions, development, leasing, and management of p...

Bio As Director of Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund , Catherine Buell is responsible for long-term and innovative programs that address civic priorities in the communities where Amazon employees live and work. Catherine helped launch and oversees Amazon’s  Housing Equity Fund , a more than $2 billion commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in Washington State’s Puget Sou...

John Coe & Herman Bulls Bio Herman Bulls is Vice Chairman, Americas, as well as an International Director and the founder of JLL’s highly acclaimed Public Institutions Business Unit, which specializes in delivering comprehensive real estate solutions to federal, state and local governments, economic development & nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions.  He works with the...

John Coe Introduction This is a special episode to review the highlights of the 2022 episodes of Icons of DC Area Real Estate. Rameez Munawar of Jamestown Investments , who has helped me with several postscripts in the past year, will be my companion on this review. We have filtered the review through six themes, which are highlighted below. The episodes will be linked accordingly for reference. T...

Anthony Lanier and John Coe Bio Anthony Lanier founded EastBanc in 1987 and is involved in all development decisions and the strategic direction of the firm. Over the course of his career Anthony has co-developed over four million Sq ft. of mixed use commercial Real Estate in multiple countries. Anthony and his team offer superior local market expertise with substantial positive experience in succ...

Bio Alex Johns is a Senior Vice President, Co-Investment for Grosvenor Americas and has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry as a capital source, consultant, and appraiser. In both her professional and volunteer roles she has a history of setting records and breaking new ground. Prior to joining Grosvenor in 2019, Alexandra opened the Mid-Atlantic office for a Resmark, leading e...

Studio portraits for RCLCO. Photo by Louis Tinsley/DC Corporate Headshots. Assistant – Briana Ince Bio Adam Ducker is Chief Executive Officer of RCLCO and oversees the firm’s Real Estate Economics and Management Consulting Practices. Adam joined RCLCO in the mid-1990s as an associate directly after graduate school and learned the trade with the firm. He is a recognized expert in strategic planning...