Cartier, Dawn - REIAC: Real Estate Investment Advisory Council

Dawn Cartier
REIAC Director
President & Founder, CivTech, Inc.

Dawn Cartier is the President and founder of CivTech, Inc., an Arizona-based transportation planning, traffic engineering and design firm. Ms. Cartier founded CivTech in 2002 with an established reputation for listening to her client’s needs and an ability to work through complicated issues. Her client portfolio includes federal, state and local agencies, private clients as well as other design professionals.

Ms. Cartier directs in-house professional engineers, technicians, designers and personnel capable and experienced in all service areas of traffic engineering including: traffic signal design, signal warrant studies, intersection safety studies, traffic calming studies, and intelligent transportation design. CivTech has prepared numerous traffic engineering documents and plans as part of multi-disciplinary projects including change of access reports, corridor analysis and design, and project assessments for federal funding. Ms. Cartier received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1996 from Northern Arizona University and is a licensed engineer in several states.

Ms. Cartier currently serves as a Southwest Board Member of the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council. She also serves as a board member of the Arizona Chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies and is the past chair for the ADOT DBE Task Force. She is an active member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Pinal Partnership and American Public Works Association.

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www.civtech.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