Eric Smith Email & Phone Number

Greater San Diego Area

Smith Real Estate Consultancy endeavors to provide Owners and Developers direct and personalized real estate services; such as, project feasibility studies, site selection services, financial pro forma modeling, financial underwriting, as well as project entitlement, development & project management, in addition to asset management and asset preservation.

As President of Lankford & Associates, Inc, Eric Smith oversees the day-to-day operations of the company, directs asset management and property management as well as development, acquisition, and construction management activities. With 30+ years of experience, Mr. Smith brings a broad depth of experience in feasibility, entitlement, design, construction.

San Diego, California, United States

KCR Capital is a private investment firm with acquisitions and operations experience dating back over 35 years. KCR invests in commercial real estate assets and debt/equity instruments secured by the same optimizing returns on a risk-adjusted basis. Investments range from long term hold, legacy assets to shorter life cycle, and value-add plays. Together.

Western United States

Support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of all aspects of build-to-suit and speculative commercial development projects from inception to completion including design development, budgeting and pro-forma analysis, and entitlement processing.Develop new project pro-forma and financial return analysis.Coordinate project information including.

Western United States

• Owner’s Representative in multi-faceted capacities on a portfolio of assets totaling over 2 million square feet and valued at over $708 million.
• Construction Manager/General Contractor on projects totaling almost 40,000 square feet and valued at $5.3 million.
• Plan, direct, coordinate, and/or budget, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the development, construction, and maintenance of real estate assets.
• Participate in the conceptual development of a project and oversee its organization, scheduling, and implementation.
• Produce cash management schedules for use in predevelopment planning and project feasibility analysis.
• Develop project budgets including hard and soft costs and incorporate data into pro formas for project feasibility analysis.

• Project Engineer, August 2000 – March 2001
• Project Manager on a commercial office building in San Diego, California totaling approximately 70,000 square feet.
• Oversaw daily duties of two office engineers and one office manager. Reported directly to a Senior Project Manager.
• Coordinated with the owner/developer and the Architect/Engineer.
• Strategized, developed, and managed critical path schedule.
• Reviewed and executed contracts.

**Project Engineer/Project Coordinator, May 1996 – December 1998Managed Civil Engineering design projects ranging in design fees from $500 to $150,000. Oversaw and coordinated efforts of understudy EIT, design technician, and a draftsman. Accumulated design and management experience in: subdivisions, site development (grading, drainage, and detention pond.

M.B.A., Finance

Bachelor Of Science, Civil Engineering