Zane Segal

Biography: Zane Segal Project Director Zane Segal Projects, Inc. Houston, TX Zane Segal is a developer, land owner, marketing consultant, and licensed real estate broker. He is knowledgeable about commercial, residential, hospitality, transit-oriented, and mixed-use properties in historic, urban, suburban, and resort areas. He has thirty-six years of experience in venture management, project development, construction, and brokerage on a range of property types including investment land, development sites, custom homes, townhomes, condominiums, apartments, hotels, retail centers, office buildings, subdivisions, and sports facilities, as well as master-planned projects incorporating several uses. He received a Bachelor of Science in Humanities with a Minor in Visual Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from the University of Southern California. Zane has studied graduate-level architecture and planning at the University of Houston, and was initially licensed in Texas as a real estate agent in 1982 and as a broker in 1998. For his own account, Segal is currently developing two single-family subdivisions with over 300 lots and is joint venturing a mixed-use, urban density, suburban project of more than 300 loft units above 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurants. He has been a principal / managing venturer for significant properties in Houston's center city and in suburban areas to the west, northeast, and southeast of the city core. He has brokered many multifamily, single-family, investment, and commercial sites, and also arranged financing for a major resort. At its 2008 Fall Meeting, the Urban Land Institute conferred upon him the Robert M. O'Donnell Award for outstanding contributions to the success of its Advisory Services program. He has chaired five and served on ten additional national ULI Advisory Services Panels, as well as chairing ULI Houston’s first two Technical Assistance Panels and participating on others. Segal served on the ULI Houston District Council Board for eight years, as Vice Chairman of Membership and of Advisory Services. Having participated on the committees of the first three ULI Houston Urban Marketplaces, he also instigated and led its initial Suburban Marketplace, the first such conference held by any District Council of ULI. He served on the Houston Planning Commission's Mixed-Use / TOD Committee, chaired its task force on urbanizing the suburbs, and engaged in numerous other community visioning and planning efforts. Zane has often spoken, written for publication, and been quoted by the media on real estate, development, urbanity, and the arts. He is an avid traveler, photographer, novelist, and runner. March 2014