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Jeff Kingsbury - Greenstreet, Ltd.
Managing Principal

Jeff Kingsbury is managing principal of Greenstreet Ltd., an Indiana-based real estate development, brokerage and consulting firm. He is responsible for general management of the firm, in addition to leading business plan strategies for the firm's clients and projects. The firm is currently engaged in a joint venture as the master developer of two mixed-use urban redevelopment projects in Indianapolis, planned for $750 million in new public and private investment. Jeff is also a principal of UrbanGreen, a San Francisco-based development and advisory firm, and a senior advisor to Cherokee, the leading private equity firm investing capital and expertise in brownfield redevelopment, with more than $2 billion under management.

Jeff's experience includes nearly twenty years in the planning and development of thirty urban, suburban, rural and resort master planned communities throughout the Unites States, encompassing over 35,000 acres. He has managed the sale of $350 million in real estate, and consulted on planning, redevelopment and development regulation issues for public and private sector clients in thirteen states. He has held principal and senior executive positions with McStain Neighborhoods and Durango Mountain Resort in Colorado, Kirkwood Mountain Resort in California, Grossman Company Properties in Boise, Idaho and The Shaw Company in Chicago. Prior to founding Greenstreet, he was a principal and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for McStain Neighborhoods, a Colorado-based master planned community developer and home builder known nationally as a pioneer and one of the leaders in sustainable building and development. Jeff's responsibilities included strategic direction in land acquisition, product and master planned community design as well as corporate branding, marketing communications and sales operations. In two years, he led the Company from $67 million to $111 million in gross revenues, increasing sales nearly 100 percent and shareholder value 29 percent, while improving all customer satisfaction metrics and referral rates to among the highest in the industry.

Jeff is recognized nationally as an expert in sustainable building and development best-practices. His home building and project development experience includes a portfolio of the leading sustainable development projects in the nation: the 4,700-acre redevelopment of Denvers Stapleton International Airport, the nations largest urban redevelopment project (ULI Award for Excellence); Belmar, a 103-acre regional mall redevelopment in Lakewood, Colorado (ULI Award for Excellence); Lowry, an 1,866-acre redevelopment of the Lowry Air Force Base in Denver; Hidden Springs, a 1,844-acre rural new town outside Boise, Idaho; Prairie Crossing, a 667-acre master planned community in Grayslake, Illinois; and Homan Square, a 55-acre redevelopment of the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. world headquarters in Chicago (ULI Award for Excellence).

Jeff holds degrees in urban planning and development and environmental design from the College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning. Active in education and community affairs, he has served on the governing boards of Ball State University; the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities; and the Golden Apple Foundation in Chicago. He is a co-author of the book Developing Sustainable Planned Communities (ULI, 2007) as well as a teacher and frequent speaker on sustainable development issues for such organizations as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Efficient Building Association, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, the National Town Builders Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the Urban Land Institute. Jeff has been an advisor to The Conservation Funds Center for Conservation and Development in Washington, DC and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Chairman of the Sustainable Development Council of the Urban Land Institute.

August 2008