Richard Bland
Real Estate Consultant @Melissa Gillis Care
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WORK HISTORY
Real Estate Consultant @Melissa Gillis Care
National, US
With a depth in development and construction process on top of 20 years as investments professional, Rick brings a lot of experience and wisdom to the table. Most property types included and deep experience in the full life cycle of real estate are the foundations of Rick\'s broad expertise.His role here as a key leader forging strong relations with clients to lead pre-development design management, allocating budgets, and managing contract negotiations.• Monitor and enforce change order and contingency procedures approval. • Maintain track record of assets withdrawn from a business, equity capital approvals, and capital account monitoring.Undertaking the following projects: a) CT Realty – Development Management, Irvine, CA (National), 2022: Clean Energy/Amazon – Entitle and build up to thirty 5 to10 acre industrial fueling stations nationally.b) Construction Management Consultants, Inc – Local Lead Construction Manager, Phoenix, AZ, 20••••22: Chevrolet Dealership (Casa Grande) – Ground-up design to start – 2022 | Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Jeep Dealership (Casa Grande) – Vacant Sam’s Club big box remodel – 2021 – 2022c) CREDE Group - Lead Development Manager, Phoenix, AZ (Southwest Region)- 2021: Park Ave. Apts, Salt Lake City – 234 units high density residential over retail – 136 Du/Ac – $45mm| Broadway Villas, Salt Lake City – 254 units high density residential – 124 Du/Ac – $56mm | Mill Creek Villas, Salt Lake City – 328 units high density residential over retail – 142 Du/Ac – $60mmo Advanced MD, So. Jordan, Utah – Commercial office & parking expansion – $3.3mmd) Stonewood Properties, Inc. – Due Diligence Manager, Phoenix, AZ (Southwest Region): Perform acquisition diligence for 3rd party investors acquiring commercial property of all types - 20••••22 e) Marina Westshore Partners, LLC. – Property Asset Manager, Phoenix, AZ (Southwestern Region): Oversee investment operations and structure redevelopment strategies to increase income – 2022
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of Southern California
Master of Real Estate Development
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
ABOUT RICHARD BLAND
With a track a record as an award-winning professional, Rick possess a history of delivering high-impact solutions in in Commercial and Land Development. Among other talents is the ability to develop products and projects, while managing portfolio results. He can leverage his talent for negotiating for land deals, people management, contract negotiation to optimize process and cost efficiency. Rick has had a well-rounded real estate career that started on the jobsite and rapidly ascended to owning Specialty and General Contractor Companies. Rick then got serious about development, focusing first on a double Masters in Real Estate Development and Business. The blending of physical development with optimal finance tactics lead him to create many profitable entitlement, development and investment strategies for his real estate clients. Notable projects included- a 1500 AC. master-Planned Community in San Benito County south of San Jose, CA- a sale of a US Postal Service site on a city block in Downtown San Francisco which was programmed by the sales team for of condominiums in high-rise towers over multi-levels of parking and retail- Various offices sales with entitlement upgrades to medical office condominiums or bio-tech lab space in the SF Bay Area- Acreage for medium density residential at the waters edge of the San Francisco Bay with 5 story wood-frame over 2 of concrete parking and retail in Richmond, CA, big box redevelopment conversions to car dealerships, national entitlement and development of Fuel stations for Clean Energy / Amazon, and Commercial Due Diligence services in the local SW region as well as commercial property management. Tapping such strategic and tactical strength, Rick also became a seasoned investment real estate broker licensed in both Arizona and California. With his deep 20+ year career in construction and development, his 20+ years investment experience included office, medical, industrial / R&D, retail and land assets for development in those products from the entire western US with hundreds of transactions ranging from single assets up to portfolios over a $Billion in price.
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