James Coleman

Biografía: James Coleman is Managing Director for Hill Companies, LLC, a national real estate investment firm with current holdings in San Francisco, Southern California, Colorado, and Washington. With more than twenty-years’ experience in real estate transactions and deal-making, Mr. Coleman has organized the placement of approximately one-billion dollars in real estate investment and new development throughout the United States. Mr. Coleman has a strong track record as a strategist, dealmaker, and team builder, and has overseen complex transactions and deliveries in suburban and urban environments. With expertise in joint ventures, financial structuring, negotiations, and program management, Mr. Coleman is focused on quality, innovative real estate and placemaking rather than “commodity” real estate. As a principal, he has overseen the delivery and management of office and industrial properties, medical office and ambulatory surgery space, multifamily apartments and condominiums, and retail centers, including mixed-use, creative space and adaptive re-use deliveries. As a hotel developer, Mr. Coleman has been a member of Starwood’s Aloft and Element Owner Advisory Board and Hyatt’s Owner Advisor Board for Hyatt Place and Hyatt House. Mr. Coleman is a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Suburban Development and Redevelopment Product Council. Recent or notable projects include: Synergy Medical Offices and Surgery Center, a 100,000sf urban medical office and retail mixed use development; Denver’s The Muse Luxury Apartments, 120-units of Class A Apartments, across from the University of Denver campus; a 6.5 Acre land assemblage in the Las Vegas Resort Corridor; and, the adaptive re-use of a vacant office building, reimagined as a branded hotel. Mr. Coleman holds a bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University and an MBA in Real Estate from the University of Denver. James is a family-man and an outdoorsman and spends whatever time he can find fly-fishing the great western rivers.