David Manfredi

Biography: As a founding principal of Elkus Manfredi Architects, David Manfredi has been privileged to work with a variety of industry leaders from across the country on all types of building and planning projects. He is nationally recognized for his master planning, urban design, and placemaking work. Under David’s guidance, Elkus Manfredi led the planning process and building design of The Americana at Brand, a 16-acre mixed-use project incorporating retail, restaurants, cinema, residences, public space, and parking in Glendale, California; The Grove in Los Angeles, a 600,000-square-foot premier shopping environment adjacent to the famed Farmer’s Market and CBS Studios; historic renovation, adaptive reuse, and new construction to create One Franklin Street, an integrated high-rise building with above- and below-grade retail, hotel, residential, office, and parking; South Campus Gateway at The Ohio State University — an 887,000-square-foot, five-building mixed-use urban environment that provides a common ground between the University and the surrounding neighborhood; University Square at the University of Pennsylvania a 305,000-square-foot mixed-use development including hotel and retail; the 300,000-square-foot retail, dining, and entertainment zone known as Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California; Westwood Station redevelopment, a new five million-square-foot mixed-use neighborhood featuring lifestyle retail with residences above, several distinct residential neighborhoods, office buildings, hotels, and recreational uses; and Belmar, a mixed-use downtown incorporating retail, office, and residential components, and parking in Lakewood, Colorado. Throughout his career, David has worked with a diverse range of clients — visionaries and leaders in their field — including Boston Properties, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Caruso Affiliated, The Druker Company, Forest City Commercial Group, Gale International, Harvard University, Massac