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Keith Gainer

Keith saw the need, in the early 90’s for affordable housing in the CBD and designed the conversion of an historic landmark office building into one of the first affordable housing properties in the business district.  In addition, Keith has participated in the acquisition, design, development and financing of manufactured housing properties.

He has a breadth depth of knowledge gained through thirty years of experience at all levels of commercial and residential real estate including development, management, sales and investment. His core strength is market analysis, needs planning and strategic planning.

He started his real estate career at Frederick Ross Company.  His client base included investors of small office buildings to institutional owners of large office towers.  Keith was responsible for creating and management of the marketing plan and the leasing of City Center-a three million square foot office complex including a Marriot hotel.

At Frederick Ross Keith’s responsibilities grew to Senior Vice President of Marketing, Senior Vice President of Leasing, Strategic Planning and becoming a Principal of the company.  His strategic planning is credited with bringing the company through the eighties.  He then used his strategic planning and marketing expertise to assist several real estate companies.  He has participated in the design of commercial structures, directed the land planning, design, annexation, rezoning and infrastructure development of affordable housing including Private Activity Bond financing.  Keith has structured the ownership and financing for commercial development and investment packages.  He has participated in hundreds of millions of dollars of residential and commercial real estate.

Keith is a founder and former Chair of the Metro Denver Realtors Foundation which he led and directed the organization of, headed the endowment committee in addition served on numerous college alumni committees and fund raising for non profits. Keith graduated from Dean College and The University of Denver.

Jeff Lindsay

Jeff is a Colorado native, growing up in Douglas County.  He has an AAS degree in architecture from DuPage College in the Chicago land area.  Jeff has completed studies at IHBA Graduate Builders Institute in the following areas: Land Development, Site Planning, Zoning Codes and Standards, Building Technology, Project Management, Scheduling and Estimating.

He has over 25 years experience from inner city Chicago affordable multifamily housing and development to high end custom and single family properties. He returned to Colorado where he continued in the industry at all levels and sectors of the development process. 

In Colorado, Jeff’s experience includes project design, city approvals, land development (including: underground utilities, storm water management, bridges and detention ponds), preliminary and final budgets, supervision of buy outs, hiring all field and office staff and the development of safety programs.  This depth of knowledge and experience led to the position of being completely responsible for the construction, completion and acceptance of many large residential properties in the suburbs and urban settings including two to four story multifamily complexes with phases in the range of 450 units with multiple ancillary buildings.

Jeff’s particular expertise is his extensive knowledge of multi family regulations and codes which strengthens his interface with planning departments and building inspection representatives.  His core strength is his pleasure derived from a Senior Management role in large multi family properties.  His “boots on the ground to board room” role of interfacing with all levels of construction from dirt work to final acceptance enhances his talent in dealing with lenders and other corporate executives.

As a Colorado native his love of the outdoors is not only reflected in his chosen profession but also in other activities which include being a shotgun shooting instructor with the 4H organization.

William R. McKinney

Bill started his career as a senior broker at the Frederick Ross Company.  He served as sales manager for Shames Makovsky Realty Company and sales manager and principal at Dunton Realty Company for ten years.  Bill’s real estate expertise extends to brokerage management, acquisition, property management, build-to-suit facilities and Planned Unit Development (PUD).

Bill’s twenty-five plus years in estate and his depth of knowledge in all sectors of real estate and management give him the skill set to rapidly asses an asset’s position relative to current market conditions.  His financial modeling expertise allows for developing alternative strategies in value enhancement and investment recovery.  Bill’s marketing skills and market relationships are critical to implementing the strategies for value protection and enhancement.  He is actively engaged in the acquisition, development and the sale of properties.  Bill has been an annual recipient of the Denver Metropolitan Commercial Association of REALTORS® (DMCAR) Million Dollar Roundtable Award.

Bill’s professional affiliations include: Vice President of DMCAR®, Founder and Chair of the Metro Denver REALTOR® Foundation, a committee member of the Rocky Mountain International Council of Shopping Centers and Chair for the 1997 Rocky Mountain Commercial Real Estate Exposition/Denver University Forecast.  Bill serves on the Scholarship Committee at the University of Denver, Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at the University of Denver. 

Bill clients include the following:

California Federal Savings                              PM Realty Advisors                          

Heller Financial Services                                 United Bank of Denver

Mellon Real Estate Management                    National Realty Advisors      

Colorado National Bank                                 Founder’s Asset Management                       

Mike Mosier

Mike is a Denver native whose family has a long history in the construction industry in Colorado.  Mike possesses the unique ability to recognize areas of potential failure in design, estimating and construction practices that create the possibility for litigation.  He has a depth of experience and expertise in design, value engineering, government submittals and permitting, estimating, budgeting, bidding and total project monitoring.  His expertise in construction, financial modeling and his ability to assess potential design changes that allows for significant cost savings through value engineering adds value, even in midstream, to a project that is incomplete or underperforming.

He is conceptual and an articulate communicator that is skilled in creating budget stability and cost control strategies with subcontractors, and managing tight financial controls utilizing several types of computer generated models and control software.  For example, he developed and implemented consistent strategies for estimating, budgeting, specifications, plan development, contracting and cost controls that restored momentum and managed a pipeline of over 1000 housing units and 10 projects across the front-range.

Mike is a strong addition to our “boots on the ground” team that has a combined 87 years of construction experience.  Mike is skilled in Architectural Design, CAD, Plumbing and HVAC design and his construction experience includes: auto dealerships, retail, restaurants, office, clean room facilities, single family and multifamily.  This depth of knowledge and experience allows Mike and team to rapidly assess the strengths and weakness of operations, determine cost control strategies and completion alternatives to protect, preserve and enhance our project objectives.

Mike started his undergraduate education at the University of Colorado in music; since he grew up in the construction industry that became his chosen profession.  He maintains his music interest by being on the Board of Directors for the Cherry Creek Chorale, Douglas County Children’s Chorus and the Bridges Music Ministry.  Mike is also a former member of the Curriculum Advisory Board for the Computer Aided Design program at Arapahoe Community College.

David Pipkin  CPM

David started his real estate career at Amortibanc in Kansas after graduating from Wichita State University Cum Laude.  His experience at Amortibanc included residential loan processing, appraisal review, construction inspection and disbursement, FHA document loan processing and loan closings.

David’s commercial real estate career started in Colorado where he has managed several million square feet of properties that included  the thirty story Lincoln Center Building, Empire Park, Pavilion Towers, The First National Bank of Englewood, now called Chase at 333 West Hampden. 

In many cases David was the initial property manager responsible for setting up all policies, procedures, systems, hiring all engineering and maintenance personnel and contracting all vendors.  David’s other management experience covers: industrial property management of 800,000 plus square feet (including flex/office), retail property management from 200,000 square foot centers to 9,000 square foot neighborhood shops. His residential experience ranges from large apartment complexes to 50 unit townhouses and receiver for several hotels including an historic landmark, office buildings and apartments.

His thirty years of experience in these real estate specialties gives him a broad range of knowledge and enables him to structure, direct and manage any type of real estate in any state of completion or occupancy.

Gale Pipkin

Gale grew up in Kansas and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State College.  He then served in the Marines Corps as a combat engineer officer.

He has been involved in development from affordable housing including small to very large multifamily developments to high end custom homes.  His construction expertise includes Financial Analysis, Product Development, Plan Generation, Permitting, Construction Management and Warranty. 

Gale started as a Project Manager continuing as a Purchasing Manager and then assumed full responsibility in the construction disciplines including land development (all infrastructure design and development, including permitting).  He has been involved in senior continuing care facilities, senior living condominiums and mixed use (combining retail and residential components), commercial development including shopping centers, office, retail/industrial facilities (auto dealerships).  Gale was a principal of Sunburst Builders, Sovereign Companies and Legend Homes of Colorado.  He has a reputation for working extremely well with city and county planning departments and building officials.

Gale and his team have built over 5,000 residential units in Colorado including single and multi family.  As a consequence of Gale’s depth of experience and personal style in working with building officials he possess the unique ability to rapidly asses the construction issues including risk, cost and compliance issues.  These allow him to assemble a team to work efficiently with all entities involved in a project and proceed to completion and close out.