Laura Billings, Principal
Laura has over 17 years’ experience in all facets of real estate development within the office, industrial and multifamily housing sectors, including acquisitions, due diligence, leasing/marketing, financing, entitlements and project/construction management. Laura formerly served as the Director of Development for a San-Francisco-based development firm, where she completed a 110,000 square-foot two-building industrial facility for the City of San Francisco, earning a City and national award for best private-public partnered project. Other project highlights include the successful entitlement of a 100-unit and a 230-unit condominium project in San Francisco in 2016 with full community support, the design and entitlement of an 86,000sf Class A office building in the Stanford Research Park and an historic renovation of a 40,000sf office suite in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. She previously worked in community development banking and municipal housing bond finance. Laura has a passion for green building and served on the Board of Directors of the Northern California Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with degrees in Political and Social Thought and Urban Planning and holds an MBA with a certificate in Real Estate from U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.