Black, Chris - REIAC: Real Estate Investment Advisory Council

CHRIS BLACK
Senior Vice President – Acquisitions
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers

Christopher Black is a Senior Vice President responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities in the Western United States for Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers. This involves acquiring existing properties as well as providing joint venture equity for development projects. These investments include office, industrial, retail and multi-family properties.

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC, with affiliate and subsidiary offices in the US, UK, Europe and Asia, is one of the world’s largest real estate investment advisers. It provides core and value-added investment and advisory services, including a comprehensive suite of real estate debt, equity and securities expertise and services, to institutional and other qualified investors around the globe. Cornerstone is a member of the MassMutual Financial Group. Cornerstone and its subsidiaries have assets under management totaling more than $32 billion.

Prior to joining Cornerstone in 2004, Mr. Black spent five years as a Vice President at Summit Commercial responsible for Development, Acquisitions and Dispositions. Prior to joining Summit Commercial, Mr. Black spent four years at Copley Real Estate Advisors/AEW Capital Management, where he was responsible for Asset Management, Acquisitions and Dispositions. Mr. Black began his career at Price Waterhouse as a real estate consultant.

Mr. Black received a BS degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance and Development from the University of Southern California.

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www.cornerstoneadvisers.com

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