Jeff Kingsbury

Biography: Jeff Kingsbury has over thirty years of experience in the planning and development of communities throughout the United States, encompassing over 35,000 acres. He has been a principal in the development and disposition of over $1 billion in real estate, and consulted on master planning, economic development, and regulatory issues for private sector clients as well as cities, counties, and non-profits in sixteen states. In 2019, Jeff co-founded Ancora, a Washington DC-based leading developer, owner, and operator of university and health system anchored real estate in U.S. knowledge markets. The firm is the lead developer of Electric Works, an adaptive reuse of a former historic GE campus into a $430 million mixed-use innovation district in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and one of the Midwest's largest public-private partnerships. From 2005 to 2022, he founded and served as managing principal of Greenstreet Ltd., an Indianapolis-based strategic planning and real estate practice. The firm worked with leading anchor institutions, including hospitals, academic medical centers, colleges, universities, utilities, museums, and cultural institutions to develop shared value solutions to accomplish the anchor’s enterprise objectives and community development goals. Jeff has been a senior advisor to Cherokee, the leading private equity firm investing in brownfield redevelopment, with more than $2 billion under management. His large-scale project experience includes the 4,700-acre redevelopment of Denver’s Stapleton International Airport; Imperial, a 720-acre master planned community and redevelopment of the former Imperial Sugar refinery in Sugar Land, Texas; Belmar, a 103-acre regional mall redevelopment in Lakewood, Colorado; Lowry, an 1,866-acre redevelopment of the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver; and Homan Square, a 55-acre redevelopment of the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. world headquarters in Chicago. With ULI, Jeff is the founding Chair of the Redevelopment and Reuse Council, served as Chair of the Sustainable Development Council, and co-authored the book, Developing Sustainable Planned Communities.