Bob Voelker

Bob has 35 + years experience as a real estate attorney and multifamily developer with a focus on complex urban mixed-use development projects; high-rise residential development; affordable housing development; and real estate finance, including institutional debt and equity financing (MET, PRU, Goldman Sachs, Carlyle) and creative financing alternatives (EB-5, New Market Tax Credits, Affordable Housing Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits and Tax Exempt Bonds). As part of the Senior Management Team at StreetLights for 6 years, Bob was involved in company strategy/culture, company level and project financing and high rise and mixed use development projects from inception, including site analysis, financial feasibility, due diligence analysis and financing through completion, lease-up/stabilization and recapitalization or sale. Bob started his career as a CPA/tax accountant with a Big 8 accounting firm and after law school practiced tax law prior to moving into real estate development and finance.

Among representative projects that Bob has spearheaded over the last 15 years are the W Hollywood Hotel and Condominiums in Los Angeles ($600MM development on 4.6 acres); Block 23 multifamily/office/grocery/retail mixed-use project in Phoenix; Butler Brothers Building historic building revitalization into two hotels and multifamily residences in Dallas; Hall Arts office building development in Dallas using EB-5 funds; Case Building in Deep Ellum, Dallas; The McKenzie Residences in Dallas; Hamilton at the Epic in Deep Ellum, Dallas; MET Midtown office, apartments & hotel in Midtown, Atlanta. From 1994-2005, Bob developed 3,300 units of affordable housing in Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona.

Bob recently synthesized his extensive legal and development experience by authoring Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development.