Faculty
Biographies
Bruce Baltin
Bruce Baltin is a Senior Vice President and Executive in Charge of the PKF Consulting practice in Los Angeles. Mr. Baltin oversees the firm's consulting practice for the Southwestern United States and holds special expertise in economic, financial, and operational analyses for the hotel and foodservice industries. He conducts market demand studies and facilities planning for all segments of the hospitality industry. In addition, he is experienced in debt restructuring consulting. With more than 30 years' experience in the industry, Mr. Baltin is frequently called upon to offer expert testimony in hospitality and real estate-related litigation matters in a variety of areas, including valuation and allocations of value. He oversees long-term consulting engagements with several municipalities and private sector clients to provide advice on design, financial, and management structure for major hospitality projects. He is a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. He began his career as an operations analyst with the Sheraton Corporation and has been a Lecturer in Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He has served as the National Director of Management Advisory Services for Pannell Kerr Forster. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, and is on the Executive Committee of the Board of Advisors of the Collins School of Hospitality Management at California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona. Mr. Baltin is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a lecturer at colleges and universities, including the University of Southern California, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Cal Poly-Pomona, and the UCLA Extension Division. He is regularly quoted in local and national media on hospitality and tourism topics.
Michael J. Bayard
Michael J. Bayard is presently with the American Arbitration Association as a Construction ADR Neutral arbitrator. Previous experience includes: Attorney, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, 1994-99; Attorney, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, 1987-94; Attorney, Wickwire, Gavin & Gibbs, 1984-87; Attorney, Shapiro & Maguire, 1979-84. As a full–time construction neutral, 50% of time spent on mediation, primarily large and multi–party construction cases. 50% of time spent on arbitration, primarily large complex construction cases. Prior experience of over 20 years as full-time construction attorney, 50% of time spent on construction disputes and 50% of time spent on drafting and negotiating construction-related agreements. Primary emphasis on construction disputes and contracts valued at over $1 million. Former National Chair of Construction Law Groups at Pillsbury Madison and Sutro, and Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, two of the largest law firms in the United States. Mr. Bayard graduated from University of California at Berkeley (AB, Phi Beta Kappa-1976); Hastings College (JD-1979). He was admitted to the Bar: California, 1979; Federal, 1979. His publications include: Associate Executive Editor, Hastings Law Journal, 1979. Author of over 25 publications on construction law.
Raphael Bostic
Dr. Bostic joins USC's faculty after spending six years on the staff at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He enjoyed a very successful tenure at the Fed, having quickly attained the rank of Senior Economist and having received a Special Achievement Award in 2000 for his work supporting a Congressional mandate. Mr. Bostic has done extensive research on consumer banking issues, with a particular focus on mortgage and small business lending, bank branching patterns, and credit scoring and automated underwriting. While at the Fed, he was particularly responsible for studying and advising on fair lending and discrimination issues. He is currently conducting research on the ways in which the Community Reinvestment Act has influenced the behavior of lenders and credit markets. His broad research interests include financial markets and institutions, with a particular focus on banks in community development, the role and effects of regulation in banking, housing and homeownership, urban economic growth, wage and earnings profiles, and policy analysis generally. Mr. Bostic received his B.A. in psychology and economics from Harvard University in 1987 and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 1995.
David S. Brown
David Brown is Co-President of Grand Pacific Resorts based in Carlsbad, California. Grand Pacific's latest project is the Grand Pacific Palisades Resort and Hotel, a 285-unit hotel and timeshare adjacent to the new Legoland California children's theme park in Carlsbad. Grand Pacific also developed Carlsbad Seapointe Resort, a 95-unit oceanfront resort in Carlsbad, the Coronado Beach Resort adjacent to the Hotel Del Coronado, and the Red Wolf Lakeside Lodge on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe. Grand Pacific Resorts and its affiliates have developed vacation ownership projects totaling over 600 units, comprising over 28,000 vacation ownership unit weeks, all located in California. Prior to forming Grand Pacific Resorts with partner Tim Stripe, Mr. Brown spent six years with Shell/Winners Circle Resorts developing four other San Diego-area timeshare projects. From 1981 to 1988 Mr. Brown served as general counsel to Vistana Resort in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Columbia College and the University of Virginia Law School.
Robert D. Champion
Robert Champion founded Los Angeles-based Champion Development Group (CDG) in 1987. Prior to that time, he spent seven years rising through the ranks of a successful, regional real estate development company, his last three years as its CEO. From 1987 to 1991, CDG, in joint venture with a local savings and loan, developed over thirty neighborhood and community shopping centers throughout Southern California. After selling the joint venture's portfolio in 1991, Mr. Champion developed Atlantic Square, the redevelopment of the City of Monterey Park's commercial core. Completed in 1993, this 225,000 square foot project won the 1993 NAHRO award as one of the best public-private partnerships in the nation. During this time, CDG also did extensive project re-positioning and asset management for major lenders, including The Chase National Bank. After completing Atlantic Square, Mr. Champion supervised CDG's asset management business during the day, while at night, he returned to academia and obtained his Master's Degree in Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California's School of Urban Planning. After graduating, Mr. Champion sold his asset management business and returned to real estate development full time, putting into practice his new passion as stated in CDG's Mission Statement:
Our Mission is to create urban real estate projects from the ground up, or through renovation that will encompass award-winning designs, be located in premier locations, be financially rewarding to ourselves, our capital providers, our tenants and all of our other project associates and be recognized as irreplaceable assets to the communities they serve. We want to create a sense of excitement and fun among all of our associates that participate in the various endeavors necessary to create our projects, encourage and reward their commitment to and accomplishment of our goals and earn their respect for being a company that strives for excellence in everything that it does.
For the last 7 years, Mr. Champion has kept CDG at the cutting-edge of urban development with such projects as One Westside, Los Angeles' first metro "Vertical Power Center" and recipient of ICSC's 1998 Award Of Merit as one of the best designed shopping centers in the world. One Westside has three-levels of retail attached to a three level, 400 stall parking structure at Olympic Boulevard and the 405 Freeway. Another example is Brentwood Place, a "Vertical Neighborhood Center" located on Wilshire Boulevard in the exclusive Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Brentwood Place is a five-level project with two levels of retail and three levels of structured parking above retail, all designed to appear as a "pedestrian storefront experience." Currently, CDG is developing two projects, which will redefine the standards of excellence for urban mixed-use projects. The first is Gaslamp Square, located on an entire block in downtown San Diego. The first phase will include 36,000 square feet of "Main Street" retailing, a 323–space, subterranean public parking structure and 120 luxury apartment homes above. The second phase is entitled for 20,000 square feet of retail, 148 luxury, hi-rise condominiums and a 222-stall, subterranean parking structure. The second project is The Pasadena Collection, located in Pasadena's exclusive South Lake Shopping District, which will include 54,000 square feet of Class "A" office space, 20,100 square feet of shops and restaurants, 72 luxury apartment homes and a subterranean public parking garage with 331 parking stalls. In addition to his duties at CDG, Mr. Champion is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, teaching the Retail/Mixed-Use Product Class in the same Masters program he graduated from in 1994. In addition, he is a regular lecturer at ICSC, the Urban Land Institute, Real Estate Trends Conference and the Shopping Center Game. Mr. Champion and his wife, Marjorie, reside with their four children in Brentwood, California.
Delores Conway
Delores A. Conway is an Associate Professor of Statistics. Her research areas include multivariate methods, legal statistics, financial models and real estate economics. She has published a series of articles on statistical methods for legal cases involving employment discrimination. She serves on two national committees of the American Statistical Association. She was an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association for three years and also served as an associate editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics for ten years. In 1997, she was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association. She won the 1998 University Associates award for excellence in teaching, USC's highest honor for career achievements in teaching. The provost appointed her Faculty Fellow for USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching for academic years 1999-2001. She has consulted with companies on the application of statistics to medical care, security options, information products, environmental pollution, and statistical evidence in legal cases. Faculty page: http://www.marshall.usc.edu/web/IOM.cfm?doc_id=1768
Yongheng Deng
Professor Deng brings to the faculty a distinctive capability in applied econometrics and financial modeling and expertise in the field of real estate finance and economics. His current research focuses on competing risks of mortgage prepayment and default and its implications to public policy in the housing industry, impacts of mortgage borrower's sub-optimal behavior to the Wall Street's pricing of mortgage and mortgage-backed securities, the impact of real estate ownership by non-real estate firms on companies' returns, racial difference in homeownership in the US, as well as the development of property markets and mortgage market in China. He received a Homer Hoyt Post Doctoral Fellowship (2001-2002) from Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute. He was a winner of the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award (1996) from Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute and American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He previously served as an Economist and Expert in the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), and was a Post-Doc research fellow at the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds BA and MS degrees in transportation management from Shanghai Maritime University in China, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He has also served as referees for many academic journals such as Regional Science and Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, International Real Estate Review, Journal of Real Estate Research, and Journal of Policy Analysis & Management. Faculty page: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~ydeng/
Terri Dickerhoff
Bio coming soon
Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon has been doing teaching and research at USC since 1971. He has also held several administrative positions. He is currently Director of the Master of Real Estate Development Program. Research and Consulting: Gordon has recently written on the problems of the New Urbanism. He is also the co-editor (with David Beito) of Voluntary Cities (forthcoming). Gordon is currently at work on a book on the "sprawl" debate (with Harry W. Richardson). Gordon is the co-editor of Planning and Markets, an all electronic refereed journal. Gordon and his colleagues have developed the Southern California Planning Model which they are now using to calculate the economic costs of major earthquakes and other natural disasters. Peter Gordon has published in most of the major urban planning, urban transportation and urban economics journals. He has consulted for local, state and federal agencies, the World Bank, the United Nations and many private groups. Faculty page: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pgordon/
Stanley L. Iezman
During Stanley Iezman's distinguished real estate career, he has directed the acquisition and asset management of approximately $5 billion of real estate located throughout the United States. As American's CEO, he is responsible for all phases of the business, including acquisitions, asset management, dispositions and client reporting. Mr. Iezman is a member of the Executive Committee of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Planning, Policy, and Development where he teaches real estate asset management in the Master of Real Estate Development Program. In previous positions he was a partner of a Los Angeles law firm specializing in real estate and security issues. A noted speaker in the real estate arena, he has addressed a number of industry groups and bar associations, and has authored numerous articles for real estate, pension, and legal industry publications. Mr. Iezman received his BA from the University of California-Santa Barbara and his JD from the University of Southern California. He is a member of The Urban Land Institute and serves on their Public/Private Partnership Council; The Real Estate Roundtable's President's Council, International Council of Shopping Centers; National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers; Pension Real Estate Association; International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans; Association of Investment Management Sales Executives; Los Angeles County Bar Association; American Bar Association; and was the Chair of the New York University Real Estate Institute's Annual "Conference on Pension Fund Investment in Real Estate" for ten years.
Bryan C. Jackson
Mr. Jackson is the Co-Chair of the Construction Law Practice Group at Allen Matkins and is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. Mr. Jackson is a national expert in drafting and negotiating construction and design professional contracts for every type of project including hospitals, sports facilities, mass transit systems (rail, light rail and subways), retail power centers, hotels, high-rise office buildings, environmental remediation projects, automated green house complexes, climate–controlled public storage facilities, tenant improvements, luxury apartments and condominium complexes. Since 1990, Mr. Jackson has been the Adjunct Professor for the graduate courses entitled "Construction Management and Technology," and "Construction Law" at the University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning & Development in the Master of Real Estate Development program. Mr. Jackson lectures frequently for the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the National Business Institute, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and clients. His publications include Civil Code § 3110.5: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? 15 LACBA Real Property Section Review 1 (Spring, 2002); What Real Estate Practitioners Need to Know About Y2K Impacts on the Construction Industry, California Real Property Journal (Fall, 1999); Public Construction Contracts: Are California's New Minority Goals on a Collision Course with Croson? 13 Public Law News 2 (Spring, 1989); California Minority Goals After Croson, 102 Los Angeles Daily Journal, No. 71. p. 7 (April 10, 1989); Can Stop–Notice Claimants Get At Interest Reserves? 102 Los Angeles Daily Journal No. 242, p. 7 (December 5, 1989); Construction Contracts: Are California's New Minority Goals Unconstitutional? 1 Los Angeles County Bar Assoc. Real Property Section Newsletter, No. 1 (January 1990). During 1994-97, Mr. Jackson served as the Co-editor of the LACBA Real Property Journal. Mr. Jackson is a past Chair of the Subsection on Construction Law in the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association ("LACBA"), is the Treasurer of the LACBA Real Property Section and is a member of the California State Bar Associations. He served as Co-chair of the 26th Annual Benjamine S. Crocker Symposium in 1997. Mr. Jackson serves as the Chair of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Los Angeles Chapter. Mr. Jackson is admitted to the Federal Bar, Central District of California, and all California state courts. In 2002, Mr. Jackson received the People Making Waves award from Adventist Healthcare and in 1996 he received The Wiley W. Manuel Award For Pro Bono Legal Services presented by the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California. Mr. Jackson received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1983 and his J.D. from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1986. Before law school, Mr. Jackson served as a legislative intern for then Senator Paul Laxalt and was the full-time manager of fundraising and development for the National Center on Deafness at California State University, Northridge. Mr. Jackson lived in Brazil for two years and speaks Brazilian Portuguese.
Steve Kellenberg
Steve Kellenberg has over 23 years of experience on large scale Master Planned Community and New Town planning. His education and experience have provided a strong integration of land use planning, urban design, economics, market analysis and public participation. He has worked with numerous national developers at the management level assisting in master planning, detailed design and builder process through implementation. Steve's focus has been on elevating the level of urban design and 'community character' in large, high-velocity, primary-market based communities. Steve also has experience in mixed use design, including Town Centers in the nationally recognized new communities of Valencia, Summerlin and Rancho Santa Margarita. His understanding of land economics, shared parking and development phasing result in Town Center development strategies appropriate for lower density suburban markets. Steve teaches at the USC Master of Real Estate Program and is in the Leadership group of the Urban Land Institute. He also co-authored the ULI book Great Planned Communities and heads EDAW's Green Communities task force.
Michael I. Keston
Michael Keston is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Larwin Company. Since its formation in 1948, Larwin has built and marketed approximately 50,000 residential units in more than 140 separate communities and over 2 million square feet of commercial properties. Mr. Keston joined Larwin in 1970 and was appointed President in 1975. Mr. Keston is the Chairman and Senior Fellow of the California Infrastructure Institute at the University of Southern California, an Adjunct Professor in the Masters Degree Program in Real Estate Development at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, is a member of the Executive Committee of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics for the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Keston was appointed to the Los Angeles City Board of Water and Power Commissioners by the Mayor and served in 2000 and 2001. LADWP has $3 billion annual revenues, 8,000 employees and provides services to more than 4 million Los Angeles City residents and businesses. Mr. Keston was appointed to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles/Ventura Region by the Governor in 1991. He served two terms as Chairman of the Board in 1995 and 1996 and was Vice Chairman from 1998 to 1999. The California Regional Water Quality Control Board is a State of California Regulatory Agency with responsibility for protecting the beneficial uses of water, including drinking water standards, discharges in the Pacific Ocean, rivers and underground aquifers and serves more than 12 million Californians in the Los Angeles/Ventura region. Mr. Keston is a past Director of the Los Angeles Conservancy and past Director of the California State Chamber of Commerce. A native of New York City, Mr. Keston received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from City University of New York in 1961, a Master of Science Degree in Engineering from San Diego State College in 1964 and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966.
Allan D. Kotin
Allan Kotin has over 40 years of experience in real estate economics with an emphasis on financial planning and redevelopment. He is proficient in market research, financial structuring and transaction negotiation for developers, investors, lenders and public agencies. Since 1980, Mr. Kotin has been actively involved in public/private joint ventures, often acting as a key strategist and active negotiator for public agencies and major developers in major redevelopment and asset management transactions. Within this area, Mr. Kotin has developed particular expertise in participatory ground leasing, a topic on which he has lectured before several national associations of government officials. Experience: Entering the real estate field in 1963, Mr. Kotin has held key positions with several major real estate consulting and strategic planning firms before founding Kotin, Regan & Mouchly, Inc., in 1980 and its successor companies, Sedway Kotin Mouchly Group, KMG Consulting, PCR Kotin, and, most recently Allan D. Kotin & Associates. His management responsibilities have incorporated market research, feasibility analysis, negotiation, and strategic planning. Mr. Kotin earned a Master of Arts in Economics (concentration in regional economics), University of California at Los Angeles, 1964. He completed graduate studies in Economics, Harvard University, 1960-1961 and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with highest honors at UCLA in 1959. He has taught at USC since 1986 and prior to that at UCLA. He has been a guest lecturer and summer program instructor at Harvard University School of Design, and has both designed and taught at numerous industry, association, and public sector training programs including International Association for Economic Development, the California Community Redevelopment Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Alon I. Kraft
Alon I. Kraft, Vice President of Lowe Enterprises Investment Management, LLC is responsible for managing the investment portfolios of a number of Lowe's pension fund clients. He was previously responsible for management of the financial underwriting team and due diligence coordination for commercial investment opportunities for Lowe's southwestern regional real estate group which closed on over $300 million worth of assets. Prior to joining Lowe, Mr. Kraft provided financial analysis and planning consulting services with KMG Consulting, a Los Angeles based real estate and urban economics consulting firm. He is an active member of the American Planning Association and a Certified Planner. Mr. Kraft received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Planning from the University of Southern California.
Vincent G. Maher
Vincent Maher is Principal of Maher Realty Services, Studio City, California. He is also associated with the firm of Mason & Mason in Montrose, California, specialists in real estate valuation and consultation for litigation, eminent domain and right-of-way valuations, estate planning, and redevelopment, for both private clients and public agencies. Prior to establishing Maher Realty Advisors, he served as a commercial property appraiser in the mortgage loan division of York Life Insurance Company, as Chief Appraiser and Commercial Loan Underwriter for Western Mortgage Corporation, and Vice President, Director of Corporate Real Estate for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, where he was responsible for asset management of the company's real estate holdings worldwide. Mr. Maher earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in economics, and a Master of Business Administration finance from Pepperdine. He was initiated into Lamba Alpha International, an honorary land economics society, in 1985 and served as President of the Los Angeles Chapter, and International Treasurer. He holds the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute, and is the 2001 President of the Southern California Chapter, and holds the CRE designation presented by the Counselors of Real Estate of the National Association of Realtors. Mr. Maher has been a frequent lecturer and speaker on real estate valuation and related subjects, including several years of instruction for the School of Mortgage Banking. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker and a General Certified Real Estate Appraiser, the highest appraisal designation conferred by the State, and is qualified as an expert witness in Superior Court.
Marie McQueen
Marie McQueen is vice president with Real Estate Research Corporation's (RERC) west coast operation. McQueen is responsible for matters associated with real estate litigation, finance and investments, and research. Her areas of expertise include economic damage estimates, partnership disputes, impact analyses, project finance and investment analysis. In addition to her work with RERC, McQueen serves as adjunct professor for the Master of Real Estate Development Program at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development, where she has been instructing on real estate finance and capital markets, valuation, and risk management. McQueen also served as graduate teaching assistant and lecturer at the USC Marshall School of business from 1996 to 2000. McQueen holds a master of real estate development degree from USC, where she was the only student in her class to be awarded honors for superior performance in both finance and market analysis. She earned her bachelor of science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance, also from USC.
Carl F. Meyer, AIA
Mr. Meyer is a Partner of Altoon + Porter Architects. His responsibilities include project management, business development and strategic planning, while being responsible for the coordination and administration of major architectural projects from conceptual planning and design through construction. His scope of experience includes the planning of mixed-use developments, large-scale retail complexes, major renovations, community and institutional facilities, hotels and office and university projects. Mr. Meyer is immediate Past President of the American Institute of Architects California Council and is a current Director of the national component of AIA. He is active in the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Center (ICSC). He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Loyola University.
Ehud G. Mouchly
Ehud G. Mouchly is vice president of UniDev, LLC and general manager of UniDev’s West Coast Office. UniDev is a leader in the design, development, financing, and management of affiliated workforce housing communities throughout the United States. Previously Ehud worked with SunCal Companies – California’s largest private developer of master-planned communities (MPCs) – as a member of the acquisition, entitlements and start-up team. Earlier, he was general manager of Anaverde (formerly City Ranch), KB-Home’s 2,000-acre MPC consisting of 5,000 units and 300,000 commercial square feet in Palmdale, CA; principal and co-developer of a 160-acre mixed-use development (MXD) including 500,000 commercial square feet, 400-room hotel and a 1,000-stall truck stop in San Joaquin County, CA; managing director in the Real Estate Group of Price Waterhouse; founder and president of a national real estate consulting company; developer/builder of residential and retirement communities.
Mouchly has served as chairman and vice chairman of several flights of the Community Development Council (CDC) of the ULI, vice chairman of the ULI Program Committee, and council counselor to the Urban Development and Mixed Use Councils (UDMUC) of the ULI. He is a member of the NAHB Land Development Committee, the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and Lambda Alpha International. He is an adjunct professor in the graduate real estate development program (MRED) at USC, and has served as an expert witness in U.S. district and state superior courts. He is an occasional author, instructor and frequent speaker on real estate matters in the U.S. and overseas. Mouchly holds master’s degree and certification as Ph.D. candidate (“all but dissertation”) in economics and Middle East studies from Columbia University.
Ira C. Norris
Ira C. Norris' accomplishments include: Life Director, National Vice President and Federal Government Affairs Chairman, National Association of Home Builders. Past President, Baldy View Chapter (San Bernardino County) of the Building Industry Association of Southern California. Past President, Building Industry of Southern California. Twice Builder of the Year, Baldy View Chapter, BIA/SC. Builder of the Year, Building Industry Association of Southern California. National Award Winner "Smaller Smarter House for the Money," Professional Builder & Remodeler. "Housing Person of the Year," National Housing Conference. Gold Nugget Award "Best Affordable Detached Housing Development." Builder Magazine's "America's Best Builder." Best in American Living Awards for "Best Affordable First Time Buyer Home" and "Best Affordable Move-Up Buyer Home." Inducted into California Building Industry Association "Housing Hall of Fame."
Mark Oliver
Bio coming soon
Christian L. Redfearn
Christian Redfearn is an assistant professor in USC's School of Policy, Planning, and Development and a Research Fellow at USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate. His general area of research interest is urban economics, with concentrations that include urban and regional economics, urban redevelopment, small market and neighborhood dynamics, aggregate price measurement, home ownership, and urban areas in lesser-developed countries. In addition, Prof. Redfearn is an active participant in the Casden Real Estate Economic Forecast. Prof. Redfearn has published in recently in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics. In 1996, he was awarded the Fisher Center for Real Estate Dissertation Fellowship and is a member of the American Economics Association and American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. In 2000, he (with co-author John M. Quigley) was awarded the Best Paper award at the Asian Finance Society meetings in Beijing, China. Prof. Redfearn teaches real estate finance and investments in both the Marshall School for Business and the program in Real Estate Development in the School of Planning, Policy, and Development.
David K. Robbins
David K. Robbins founded and is the President of Corbridge Development LLC, a firm based in Los Angeles and specializing in multifamily condominium and apartment development in Southern California, after almost 14 years experience with some of the nation's most respected development firms.
Prior to founding and leading Corbridge Robbins oversaw the land acquisition, development and construction of approximately 4,300 multifamily for-sale and apartment units with a total development value of about $900,000,000 during his career as a senior development officer with several public and private real estate firms.
Robbins began his development career with Archstone-Smith Communities, one of the nation's largest publicly-traded real estate investment trusts, in 1992 upon leaving the practice of law, where he was a Senior Partner with a downtown Los Angeles firm. After Archstone-Smith Robbins led the development and construction function for BRE Properties, another large publicly-traded REIT, in Southern California where he managed an office of ten professionals responsible for a development pipeline in excess of $320 million. Robbins also led the Southern California office and was in charge of acquisitions and development for a large private developer based in Chicago, Illinois.
During his career Robbins has been lead developer on a variety of residential multifamily projects, including high rise residential condominium towers, mid-rise apartment projects combined with retail uses, and garden-style apartment communities.
Robbins earned a B.A. from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. Robbins has been a public speaker as part of numerous professional panels, including ULI and Building Industry Show panels on infill and high rise housing.
James J. Smith
James J. Smith is the vice president of Katell Properties. He is responsible for the feasibility, project management, and coordination of new development projects. He is also responsible for the portfolio, asset, and property management for the 1.1 million square foot Katell Properties portfolio and oversees the company's financial and management operations. Current projects include Agoura Hills Centre a 67,000 square foot office building in Agoura Hills, CA and a Chesterfield Square a 230,000 square foot community shopping center anchored by Home Depot, Food 4 Less, and Sav-on in South Los Angeles, CA. Prior to joining Katell, Mr. Smith was an associate at Aldrich, Eastman & Waltch in Boston and Berkshire Realty Trust, also in Boston. Mr. Smith received a BS in Accounting from Syracuse University, an MBA from New Hampshire College, and a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. He is also a full member of the Urban Land Institute, a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, a member of Real Estate Investment Advisory Council, a member of Valley Industry and Commerce Association, and USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate Development.
Richard C. Smith
Richard Smith is a Los Angeles-based real estate partner in Arnold & Porter, a large law firm based in Washington, D.C. His practice includes transactions involving complex commercial and residential real estate developments, lender/owner-developer joint ventures; ground leases; reciprocal easement agreements; land acquisition, leasing and sale, bond financings and land use matters. Mr. Smith has also been active in real property professional groups, including service on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Real Property Section, the Subdivision Advisory Committee of the California Department of Real Estate, and the Legal Committee of the Airport Operators Council International. Mr. Smith is the principal author of California Condominium and Planned Development Practice (C.E.B. 1984) and has been a frequent lecturer on real estate law topics. He is a 1965 graduate of Claremont McKenna College and a 1968 graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was an Editor of The Hastings Law Journal.
Victoria L. Valentine
Victoria Valentine is a Senior Real Estate Appraiser/Consultant with Mason & Mason, an appraisal firm in Montrose, California specializing in real estate consultation for eminent domain and right-of-way valuation. Prior to joining Mason & Mason, Victoria was founder and president of Victoria Valentine Appraisal, a full service appraisal firm serving clients throughout Northern and Southern California with a specialization in litigation support and valuation of high end residential properties. Ms. Valentine earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. She was recipient of a full academic scholarship as an undergraduate, and competed nationally for the USC Trojan Debate Squad. As a graduate student, she was the Alan Kreditor Scholar and Research Fellow. Additional awards include the Appraisal Institute Educational Scholarship, Alpha Omicron Pi Academic Scholarship, and the Rena Sivitanidou Award for Outstanding Performance on the MRED Comprehensive Exam. Honors include induction into the Phi Kappa Phi university wide honor society for her graduate work, the School of Policy Planning and Development Certificate of Merit, Outstanding Debater award from the USC Trojan Debate Squad, general membership in Mensa, and designation of Residential Member of the Appraisal Institute. Professional positions served for the Southern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute include Director, Regional Representative, Chair of Review and Counseling, Associate Guidance Chair, Admissions Committee Chair and California Government Relations Representative. Victoria is a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, the highest appraisal license conferred by the State of California, and is a qualified expert witness in Superior Court.
Johannes Van Tilburg
Johannes Van Tilburg is the President of Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, AIA. Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, AIA is listed among the twenty-five largest architectural practices in Los Angeles. Johannes Van Tilburg, FAIA President, has led the organization into the forefront of residential and commercial planning and design since founding his firm in 1971. While the practice is varied and multifaceted, encompassing a wide range of scope and project type, a strong commitment to quality has been pursued unstintingly, resulting in an impressive portfolio of achievement. The impetus for Mr. Van Tilburg's professional interest in housing was provided in his native Holland through his training at the College of Arts and Architecture in The Hague. There, the belief that every Dutch citizen has a right to good housing design in his adopted California, he has also led the way in working to keep good housing within reach of as many people as possible. He graduated from The Hague, The Netherlands, College of Art and Architecture with a BA in Architecture in 1962. His Professional Affiliations include: Registered Architect B State of California, 1970: C6457; Registered Architect - State of Arizona, 1973: O8943; Invested as Fellow in the American Institute of Architects 1992; Guest Speaker at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Member of Dean's Council at UCLA; Board Member of the Urban Design Advisory Coalition; Member of the Urban Land Institute; Member of the National Association of Home Builders.
Christopher A. Wilson
Christopher A. Wilson, President of Wilson Commercial Real Estate, has over sixteen years of retail commercial real estate experience in the Southern California market. His expertise is concentrated on the sales and leasing of institutional quality shopping centers representing the landlord. Mr. Wilson graduated from the University of Southern California in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Public Administration and completed his Masters in Business Administration from Pepperdine University in 1985. Prior to entering commercial real estate, Mr. Wilson joined a privately owned manufacturer's representative firm selling seasonal and sporting goods product lines to retailers across the eleven western states. In 1986 Mr. Wilson joined Grubb & Ellis in the Retail Properties Division specializing in the San Gabriel Valley. In 1988 Mr. Wilson became Vice President for Champion Development and was responsible for the acquisition, development and leasing of over $25,000,000 of retail projects in northern Los Angeles County. Since 1990 Wilson Commercial Real Estate has provided sales and leasing activities for over 2 million square feet of retail space. The firm currently represents over 7 million square feet in 45 shopping centers throughout Southern California. Wilson Commercial Real Estate serves as exclusive agent for major institutional retail property owners including Weingarten Realty, General Growth, Combined Properties, AMB Property, L.P., Weyerhaeuser Mortgage, The RREEF Funds, Equity Property and Development Corp. and Burnham Pacific and has represented major Southern California retail developers including Rothbart Development, Champion Development, Crown Realty and Development, Selleck Properties, Hopkins Development, Hughes Investments, and Cousins Properties.
