Leslie B. Cohen
National award-winning shopping center developer
- Role
- President & CEO at Cohen Development Corporation
- Location
- Peoria, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Leslie B. Cohen
National award winning shopping center developer, asset manager, and owner since 1990. President and CEO of Cohen Development Company — leaders for more than half a century in retail real estate development, ownership, and asset management throughout Central Illinois. Specialty in green development. Developed largest interlocking concrete paver parking lot in United States in Peoria, Illinois. Education includes Master of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute (1988); Honour School of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford (19••••86); BA Environmental and Political Science from Bowdoin College with highest honors (1983; Brought Robert Redford to Bowdoin campus for a weekend, 1982). Pomfret School, cum laude (1979). Certificates from Yale School of Drama (BADA), in Negotiation from Harvard Law School Negotiation Project, and in Green Development from MIT. Core competencies include a reputation for unique creativity; exceptional skills in legal affairs, executive functions, and asset management; in architectural and landscape design development; in all aspects of development and redevelopment, deal negotiation, leasing, and lease negotiations; marketing and promotion; finance and financial analysis; a capacity for deep research across all fields of knowledge relevant to our industry (and some which are not, at least not directly); market analytics and strategic planning; environmental sustainability and green development; and an abiding, lodestar, lifelong passion for improvement. Former martial arts school owner and JKD instructor, three black belts. Member of ICSC for over three decades. Multiple local board positions across the years with for profit and not for profit organizations, and major benefactor to the Mayo Clinic.
Experience
President & CEO
Jan 1997 — Present
Education
Bowdoin College
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Environmental Science, Government and Legal Studies
1979 — 1983
Harvard Law School
Certificate, Summer Negotiation Workshops
1997
The American Film Institute
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
1986 — 1988
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate, Green Development
1995
University of Oxford
Honour School of Jurisprudence (Law School)
1984 — 1986
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