Berry, Paul - REIAC: Real Estate Investment Advisory Council

PAUL BERRY
CBRE

Paul Berry is an Executive Vice President with CBRE and a partner and senior member of CBRE’s Atlanta Multi-housing Investment Properties Group. At CBRE, Paul focuses on institutionally owned multi-family property sales as well as land and development assignments in Atlanta and throughout the SE United States. Mr. Berry’s responsibilities also include day-to-day operational functions such as strategic planning. Since joining the CBRE in 1999, Mr. Berry’s team has completed over $13 billion in transactions. Paul is recognized as one of CBRE’s top producing brokers having been included in CBRE’s Colbert Coldwell Circle (top 100) and CBRE’s Top 225 in numerous years.

Mr. Berry serves on the board of directors of the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council (REIAC) in Atlanta and has done so since 1998. Paul is currently the group’s Program Committee Chairman. REIAC serves as a forum for institutional investors, developers, lenders and advisors to discuss investment strategies, capital markets trends and other macro business issues.

Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Berry was Vice President and regional head of asset management with Crocker Realty Trust. In that position, he was responsible for a four-state commercial property portfolio as well as acquisition and development responsibilities.

Prior to Crocker, Mr. Berry was Director of Asset Management with USF&G Realty Advisors where he focused on dispositions and asset management. At USF&G, Mr. Berry’s disposition activities resulted in more than $109 million in property sales. Mr. Berry has also worked with Bank of America predecessor (NationsBank) and Trammell Crow Company.

Mr. Berry received a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, with honors, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985. He received a MBA from the Darden Graduate Business School at the University of Virginia in 1990.

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STEVE REINSTEIN, CEO
Long Beach Judicial Partners

Stephen Reinstein is CEO of Long Beach Judicial Partners LLC, Meridiam Infrastructure’s project company, which has a signed a long-term contract with the State of California’s Judicial Council to finance, design, build and operate and maintain a new 545,000 SF courthouse in Downtown Long Beach, California. This project represents the first availability-pay, social Public Private Partnership to reachfinancial completion in the United States. With a total capital value of $495 Million, this development program includes 31 courtrooms, holding cells and administrative space for the Superior Court, 100,000 square feet of office space for five Los Angeles County justice agencies and 5,000 SF of retail space, as well as a 1,000 space parking structure renovation. Construction of this unique fast track, design-build project commenced in Spring 2011, with occupancy scheduled for Fall 2013.

With over 30 years of commercial real estate industry experience, Mr. Reinstein has played instrumental roles in financing or implementing many innovative development projects throughout the U.S. for Metropolitan Life, Homart Development, the Howard Hughes Corporation, Regent Properties and ICO Development. Mr. Reinstein’s background includes full cycle development of approximately Three Million SF of “from the ground up” and “value add” projects at a cost of over $400 Million, as well as extensive acquisition, investment, entitlement and public private partnership experience.

Mr. Reinstein holds a BA from Duke University, a Master of City Planning from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. He is a founding Board Member and former Chair of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Photographic Arts Council.

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www.lb-jp.com