David Gazek

Biografía: David Gazek Principal, Gazek Consulting Real Estate and Organizational Development San Francisco, CA David Gazek has over 20 years of experience in commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate for land development, redevelopment, corporate facilities, and the turnaround of distressed assets, involving mid- and high-rise, podium and garden construction. He’s an accomplished team leader, negotiator, creative problem solver and consensus builder, especially in the areas of strategic planning, public private partnerships, and development management, and has a strong client/customer focus. Mr. Gazek is currently a Real Estate and Organizational Development Consultant, serving as a real estate advisor and management consultant. Most recently, he was a Principal with AECOM, where he led the Real Estate Advisory Group in the Western United States. Prior to that he was SVP with Federal Development, where he managed the master planning, design, market and financial feasibility and entitlements for a 340-acre, mixed-use resort on the Monterey Peninsula in CA as part of the conversion of the former Fort Ord Army Base. David was also SVP with AIMCO, where he led the development and redevelopment of apartments in the Western US (conventional and affordable), consisting of 10,000+ units and a construction value of nearly $700 million. Prior to that he was a Corporate Real Estate and Workplace Consultant with Sun Microsystems, engaged in portfolio planning and change management for over 6 million square feet of office space. He was also a housing development consultant with the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he helped facilitate the successful implementation of a public private partnership to develop on-campus faculty housing. From 1996 to 2000, David was Director of Downtown Development for the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose, where he managed the division responsible for negotiating development agreements, government approvals, construction oversight, asset management and the stewardship of several downtown programs for parking, seismic retrofits, storefront renovation, and grants for housing and commercial improvements. His team delivered over $400 million of office, residential, retail, and hotel projects through the successful negotiation and implementation of public private partnerships with developers and corporations. Prior to that, he served as an independent real estate consultant for landowners, developers, investment bankers, non-profit agencies, and public housing agencies. He was also a partner with The Ratkovich Company and a development manager with Transpacific Development Company, managing the redevelopment of Cerritos Town Center in Cerritos, CA, the redevelopment of the historic Chapman Market in LA and the development of the headquarters for the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIDM) in LA. Prior to becoming a Developer, David was an urban planner and urban designer with Archisystems, William Pereira, and Gruen Associates. He has presented at Urban Land Institute (ULI) and International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) meetings and conferences and has been an instructor of urban design and planning at USC and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Updated July 2013