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Co-founded and led start-up of a highly unique private 501c3 non-profit corporation. Built a team of multi-disciplinary professionals, and built a powerful brand that to many, is synonymous with citizens’ collection aspiration for the city.Co-led a highly inclusive communitywide process that directly engaged thousands of citizens in the development of a ten-year vision for San Antonio, the seventh most populous city in the USCreated a communitywide accountability system tied to over fifty objective measures of community progress in eleven core areas of education, health and fitness, economic competitiveness, natural resources and environmental sustainability, transportation, downtown, neighborhoods, arts and culture, family well-being, community safety, and civic engagementLed the design, development and implementation of a one-of-a-kind, real time, and integrated online data dashboard system, that transparently and independently communicates on all metrics of community success. This system also meaningfully connects thousands of individual citizen volunteers to over eighty non-profit partner organizations, agencies, and businesses whose work directly advances specific community indicatorsHelped establish San Antonio nationally as a model city focused on shared goals for the future, collaborative approaches to major transformation, objective and transparent measures of progress, and accountability

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Led the creation, articulation, and execution of the vision and master plan for the 22 acre Historic Pearl Brewery, located on the bank of the San Antonio River, which is among the most ambitious mixed-use urban redevelopment efforts in the United States with assets then in excess of $100 MM. Led team in the negotiation and implementation of several groundbreaking public private partnerships, including the $70MM, 1 mile extension of the San Antonio River from the central business district to our development, and the $4MM development agreement to extend underground drainage (the first of its kind in San Antonio)Successfully negotiated major amendments to the City Development Code to allow the Pearl redevelopment to proceed as the first mixed used urban redevelopment of its kind in San Antonio, catalyzing explosive, multibillion dollar reinvestment at the northern edge of the central business district.

Managed all commercial and residential real estate acquisition, land planning, engineering, land development and overall new community developmentCompany grew to become the largest privately held homebuilder in the San Antonio region as well as a nationally recognized leader in environmental stewardship for both land planning and construction practices

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