Signature Sponsors

The Graduate Program in Real Estate Development graciously thanks the following companies and foundations who have provided financial sponsorship to the Program:

PLATINUM

Questar Properties, Inc., John Colvin, Principal 

For over 75 years, Questar and its founding family have built a reputation as one of the mid-Atlantic's leading developers of planned communities. They are master planners of lifestyles, bringing to life new designs, materials and technologies while preserving the calm, steadfast serenity that defines home. 

GOLD

Carl M. Freeman Foundation

The Carl M. Freeman Foundation commits its time, talent and treasure to facilitate, support and promote innovative community-based leadership and giving. They seek to honor their founders' legacies and passions by endorsing excellence and leveraging resources. Generally, donations are limited to communities where the customers, employees, and vendors of Carl M. Freeman Companies work, live, and play.

Established in 1947, the Carl M. Freeman Companies are the successful developers and managers of award-winning resort communities, golf courses and neighborhood shopping centers. They also own and operate the Historic Tidewater Inn, several restaurants and businesses engaged in providing real estate brokerage, management, mortgage banking and settlement services in the Mid-Atlantic.

Mid-City Financial, LLC, Eugene F. Ford, Chairman of the Board

Headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, Mid-City Financial Corporation is a family of companies that develops, owns, and operates multifamily homes throughout the United States. The Corporation and its affiliated management company are among the largest private developers, owners, and managers of multifamily properties in the Washington, D.C. region, and have served the community for over 40 years. 

SILVER

American Community Properties Trust, Michael Wilson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Edwin L. Kelly, President & Chief Operating Officer

American Community Properties Trust, a publicly traded company headquartered in St. Charles, Maryland, is a diversified real estate organization specializing in four related areas of operation: community development, development and ownership of rental apartment properties, property management, and development of commercial rental properties. The company and its predecessors have developed land for more than 12,000 housing units and built more than 5,000 homes and 2 million square feet of commercial space. Additionally, ACPT owns general partnership interest in approximately 5,600 rental apartments and manages more than 8,000, including those in its investment portfolio. Today, the company concentrates most of its operations in the metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C. and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

Southern Management Corporation, David Hillman, President

Southern Management Corporation is the largest privately owned residential property management company in the Mid-Atlantic region. With more than 70 apartment home communities and some 25,000 apartment homes, they own communities and office centers throughout the Baltimore-Washington region. Pride of ownership is reflected in the many long-term relationships they enjoy with residents, commercial tenants, and team members.

 

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Robert L. Ryan, Senior Vice President

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company was founded in 1909 by George William Carlyle Whiting and LeBaron Turner. Today, Whiting-Turner provides clients with a wide range of construction delivery system options. Their project management personnel are thoroughly cross-trained in all construction-related services, and can be called upon at any stage of a project to deliver valuable decision-making input.

BRONZE

JBG Rosenfeld Retail, Robert J.T. Rosenfeld, Principal

JBG Rosenfeld Retail is a privately-owned retail real estate company based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, specializing in retail and mixed-use development, leasing, investment, and asset/property management throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Currently, our portfolio encompasses more than six million square feet of space at over 35 shopping centers, freestanding retail sites, and mixed-use developments from Bel Air, Maryland, to Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Neighborhood Development Collaborative, John Carlisi, CEO

Neighborhood Development Collaborative was founded in 1978 by a group of housing, community development, and financing professionals as a national §501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with a mission to:

• Physically improve deteriorating neighborhoods by providing affordable rental housing
• Encourage residents to move up the economic ladder via through home ownership
• Develop housing for, and provide services to, seniors
• Create economic development opportunities
• Assist in providing community based support services
• Address the utilization, implementation, and follow-up of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and Community Reinvestment Act.

 

Orchard Development Corporation, L. Earl Armiger, President

Since 1979 Orchard Development has developed land for nearly 6000 residential units in planned communities, multi-family projects, adaptive re-use buildings and mixed-use developments. The breadth of Orchard Development's work extends from student housing to senior communities, from luxury to affordable rental apartments, and mixed income communities to community revitalization. Orchard Development also brings both extensive experience in creative financing and, with their sister company Armiger Management, provides management services to each of our properties.