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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Rivermont Capital is a real estate investment management firm focused on redevelopment projects in the southeastern United States. Implementing a data-driven, master redevelopment approach, Rivermont focuses on downtowns that are underperforming their market potential. The firm invests in public private partnerships and large scale redevelopment projects that create vibrant, walkable, and diverse town centers.

NSV creates vibrant, diverse, and sustainable city centers. As a master developer, we don't just redevelop underutilized properties, we transform neighborhoods and downtowns back into thriving, walkable, mixed-use urban environments.

Unc School Of Government

The Development Finance Initiative (DFI) at the UNC School of Government partners with local governments to attract private investment for transformative projects by providing specialized finance and development expertise. Since its founding in 2011, DFI has partnered with more than 85 communities to design and attract investment for development projects that accomplish local goals.Local governments seek DFI’s assistance with difficult development projects, often in distressed areas where the government has had difficulty attracting private sector interest. Private developers would rather invest in growing, successful geographic areas, a rational decision given that they often don’t have sufficient up-front capital to figure out tough projects. However, DFI’s analyses identify projects with market potential that private developers have missed or ignored and that show the project to be attractive to private investors. Then DFI recruits highly qualified private developers to make the project happen. In this way, DFI opens more opportunities for developers than they would have otherwise been able to find and execute on their own.DFI staff also contribute to UNC’s educational mission by teaching the next generation of community and economic development professionals in the Applied Community Revitalization course offered twice annually through the Master of Public Administration and the Master of City and Regional Planning at UNC Chapel Hill. For select project types, under the supervision of faculty and staff, professional students conduct financial feasibility analysis, market research, and financial modeling to help communities understand how they can attract private investment into community revitalization projects across North Carolina.

Greenfire is a real estate investment, master development, and asset management firm focused on the redevelopment of downtown Durham's city center. The firm played a leading role in the transformation of what used to be one of the most distressed urban environments in the Southeast. Greenfire has successfully exited all of its redevelopment investments with the exception of two core assets: the 21c Durham Museum and Hotel (an art focused boutique hotel) and One City Center (a 27-story mixed use tower now under construction). Other key investments included: NC Mutual Bldg., Whetstone Apartments, Liberty Warehouse Apartments, Rogers Alley, Trust Bldg., Durham Kress, and BaldwinLofts.

Ba/Bs, Chemical Engineering/Environmental Science

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive.

Chemical Engineering & Environmental Science