David Scheuer

Biographie : David Scheuer President The Retrovest Companies Burlington, VT David Scheuer is President of the Retrovest Companies. Mr. Scheuer has over thirty years’ experience developing several award-winning residential and mixed-use projects. The Company has built a reputation for design quality, environmental sensitivity, a willingness to take on complex joint public/private development and a commitment to sustainable development. Mr. Scheuer has worked on urban projects in Vermont, Washington D.C., Sacramento, Portland and Seattle. Currently, the Firm is developing South Village, a 336 unit conservation-oriented new urbanist mixed-income housing community in South Burlington, Vermont; The Westlake Center, a public/private downtown mixed-use project in Burlington; and Harvard Commons, an infill apartment project in downtown Seattle. Mr. Scheuer attended the University of Colorado, where he was a three-time All-American skier. From 1972 to 1978 he was a member of the U.S. Alpine Ski Team. Mr. Scheuer did graduate work at the University of Vermont in Resource and Land Economics. He is a former National Director of the National Association of Home Builders; a former Board Member of the Preservation Trust of Vermont; and the Fund for Vermont’s Third Century; and a founding member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. In 1990 Mr. Scheuer was inducted into Lambda Alpha, the National Land Economists Society. He is a former Trustee of the U.S. Ski Team Foundation and currently serves on the Executive Board of the National Town Builders’ Association. He also serves on the Urban Land Institute’s Public Private Partnership Council. Scheuer is regarded as a practitioner of smart growth development. He was appointed by Governor Howard Dean as the private industry member of Vermont’s Municipal Land Law Review Commission (2001-2003), and serves as an advisor to Vermont’s current Governor on land use issues. Updated August 2013