Alan Razak

Biographie : Alan Razak is a Principal of AthenianRazak LLC, a Philadelphia-based real estate services and development company. With more than 40 years of commercial real estate experience, Alan’s expertise encompasses development and project management, finance, architecture, urban design and advisory services. His diverse real estate background includes managing the development process, both as owner and as owner’s representative, and project types including residential, office and commercial, as well as data centers and other highly technical facilities. After years of principal positions in regional development and consulting firms, Alan started Razak Company in 2003, which merged with Athenian Properties to form AthenianRazak in 2011. The combined firm has been responsible for the development of a large variety of projects in the Philadelphia region, ranging from innovative LEED-certified multifamily residential to the benchmark-setting professional sports training and headquarters complex for the Philadelphia 76ers. In its other two service arenas, the company has provided sophisticated and varied real estate advisory and analysis services for many of the region’s most important businesses, institutions, nonprofits and governments, and its property management operations focus on ushering distressed assets from failure to restoration, something AthenianRazak has done through four market cycles for lenders, investors, owners, special servicers and the courts. Alan’s professional pursuits, starting with his work as an architect in 1975, have always followed his eclectic mix of interests in the industry, from the minutiae of failed deal forensics to the big concepts of how we build better cities. He is deeply knowledgeable about the real estate development process, an expert in design and construction services procurement and contracts, a champion of responsible property investment and a vocal proponent of a triple-bottom-line investment approach to real estate. As part of the ULI Learning faculty for over 20 years he has instructed thousands of real estate practitioners on these topics in locations around the world, and he was recently named Lecturer on Design & Development at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. His work and the work of AthenianRazak have won multiple awards for excellence in design, construction and sustainability. Alan remains a registered architect in Pennsylvania. Selected Affiliations: - Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre: Chairman of the Board - Urban Land Institute: Chair of the Philadelphia District Council, past Chair of the Responsible Property Investment Council, Chair of multiple Advisory Services Panels, ULI Learning Faculty Education: MBA, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Master of Architecture, University of Washington BS Arts and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology