Other stories by Kate%20Herman

  • Lifelong Learning: Q&A with Mark Randall

    Mark Randall is a lifer. “I've never been out of a job, and I've worked in this industry my entire career,” says the newly appointed director of Wood Partners' Southeast division. “I can't think of a better job. It's been a lot of fun.” After a decade each in construction and development, he's now...

  • Extended Stay: Q&A with Don Dreusike

    One never knows when a short-term arrangement will yield a long-term payoff. In Don Dreusike's case, his consulting gig with Urban Housing Group's Mission Bay project in early 2007 led to the creation of a new position there—vice president of construction—and Dreusike was just the man for the job...

  • Quick Step: Q & A with Phil Pitney

    As a vice president at Fairfield Residential in Bethesda, Md., Phil Pitney was used to the East Coast pace. This spring, that pace quickened a bit more for Pitney, who was named president of Lane Strategic Investment, a division of Atlanta-based Lane Co. that is expected to swell its acquisitions...

  • Learning Curve

    For nearly a decade, Mark Bryant has been an integral part of the development of JPI's Central residential and student living division.

  • Tax Time

    Jennifer Bonar Gray's job is unlike any other in the multifamily industry: As the new vice president of tax at the National Multi Housing Council, this Capitol Hill veteran is dedicated exclusively to federal and state multifamily tax issues as part of the joint legislative program of NMHC and the...

  • Billion-Dollar Plans

  • Smart Development

    There may be only two true certainties in life—death and taxes, of course—but according to Greg Vilkin, housing isn't far behind.

  • Worthy Enterprise

    Doris Koo has always been people-focused, from her school days as a sociology student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to her service at the Seattle Housing Authority to her work as executive vice president, strategic programs at Enterprise Community Partners. Now that focus has catapulted...

  • Training Day

    Christine Burnett was a business software trainer at Pinnacle, an American Management Services company, when she was asked to be part of a 20-person team tasked with creating a comprehensive, corporate-wide training program. The group spent two months talking, planning, debating, and developing the...

  • Career Designs

    By his own testimony, Rob Orme started at the bottom of the multifamily industry–cleaning toilets as an apartment community maintenance man. Ah, but how far he?s come: Today, Orme is the regional director for the new Phoenix office of Humphreys and Partners Architects. Previously a principal...