Gordon Merklein

Biographie : Gordon Merklein Associate Vice Chancellor Real Estate Operations University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gordon Merklein is the Associate Vice Chancellor of Real Estate Operations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gordon joined UNC CH in February of 2009 and has more than 25 years of experience in all facets of commercial real estate. Gordon oversees real estate management, investment and development activities for direct real estate holdings by various entities of the University, including The Carolina Inn, Granville Towers and the redevelopment of Carolina Square, a 450,000 square foot mixed-use development project adjacent to campus. In addition, Gordon oversees all public private partnership initiatives and manages the University’s 650,000 square feet of off campus office leases through the UNC Property Office. Previously, Gordon was the Senior Director of Investments for Highwoods Properties, where he managed investment transactions and capital market activities for a portfolio of office, retail and industrial properties with a market value exceeding $2 billion. He has also worked at Cushman & Wakefield and EDAW (now AECOM). Gordon is active within the town of Chapel Hill, serving on the boards of Downtown Chapel Hill Partnership and Community Home Trust. He has previously served as the Co-Chair of the Interfaith Council Community House Capital Campaign, and as a board member of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. He was the 2014 recipient of the Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen and Service Award. Gordon holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and a Master of City Planning from the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.