Alexander Twining

Biography: Twining Properties acquires urban mixed-use properties at transit nodes in the Northeast. Mr. Twining created the Watermark urban apartment brand with over 1,250 apartments in five towers in top locations in Boston including Seaport Square, Kendall Square and Central Square and in NYC, Watermark LIC. The company is currently developing a four-block waterfront project in Westchester, a million sf mixed use development on Yale's North Campus and three buildings in the heart of Central Square, Cambridge MA. Twining's capital partners include Goldman Sachs, Principal Insurance, Mass PRIM, LaSalle Investment, Morgan Stanley and Northwood Investors. Twining was CEO of MetroNexus, a Morgan Stanley Company where he oversaw a 3MSF portfolio in North America. At Morgan Stanley, he oversaw $3B of MSREF’s most complex large-scale development investments ranging from the 25,000 acre Woodlands in Texas to the 3MSF North Bridge in Chicago. He launched AvalonBay’s high-rise luxury apartment business setting up a new team and a 3,000 unit pipeline in three years. For Colgate Palmolive he directed their $4B, 8MSF Colgate Center attracting Goldman Sachs with 2MSF. Twining is a former ULI Trustee, Governor, UDMUC Red Chair, serves on the Yale School of Architecture Dean’s Council and has lectured at Columbia, MIT, NYU and Yale. He received both a BA and MArch from Yale University.