CityView Announces Senior Level Hires.SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif. -- CityView, a discretionary housing investor that partners with builders and developers to create quality housing for working families, today announced that Kacy Keys, Omar Brownson and Mark Enfield have joined the firm as Vice President, Director of Acquisitions and Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, respectively. All three professionals will be located in CityView's Santa Monica office. Henry Cisneros, CityView's Chairman and Former HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. Secretary, said, "Joel Shine and I are extremely pleased to welcome Kacy, Omar and Mark to the firm. They are all highly regarded real estate professionals who are dedicated to what they do, have significant experience in the homebuilding field and make terrific additions to our already strong team. I have every confidence that all three of them will play an integral role in the future growth of our company." Kacy Keys, who joins the company as Vice President, is a land use lawyer with extensive experience in urban infill projects in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Prior to starting her own firm, Keys Consulting Group, she was an attorney at Allen, Matkins, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol in the land use and real estate division. She served on Mayor Riordan's Business Team as Senior Development Representative, spearheading development and adaptive reuse Adaptive reuse is the process of adapting old structures for new purposes. When the original use of a structure changes or is no longer required, as with older buildings from the industrial revolution, architects have the opportunity to change the primary function of the in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and surrounding areas. She has extensive knowledge of entitlement, land use and real estate development, experience with Redevelopment Law and key negotiating skills for the implementation and approval of complex development projects. Keys holds a J.D. from Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley and an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . She is also involved in the arts through Praxis Project, Inc., a non-profit organization. "I am pleased to be joining CityView. This is a company with intellectual talent, capital and a proven track record of building successful housing for America's working families. We look forward to strengthening our relationships with local builders and providing more housing opportunities here in Los Angeles," stated Keys. Omar Brownson, who joins the company as Director of Acquisitions and Underwriting, was most recently involved in building affordable housing and mixed-use developments in Philadelphia. Prior to that, Brownson was in Los Angeles at a public affairs consulting group where he helped shepherd real estate developments through the community and political entitlement process across California. Brownson received his master's degree in public policy and urban planning from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Davis. He was also a Coro Public Affairs Fellow and served as an Americorps member. "I look forward to partnering with builders across the country to tackle the difficult urban infill developments that are essential to creating additional quality housing opportunities and, in the process, rebuilding neighborhoods. CityView has the team, strategy, and finances to add value wherever we go," commented Brownson. Mark Enfield, Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, has worked alongside CityView for the past three years as the Controller of Saybrook Capital, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Prior to Enfield's work for Saybrook, he spent three years as the Assistant Controller in the Corporate Office of Western Pacific Housing/Schuler Homes. Before that, Enfield worked for four years at Price Waterhouse, LLP servicing a wide variety of clients in their audit and business advisory practice in Baltimore, MD. He received his B.A. in Accounting from Franklin & Marshall College located in Lancaster, PA and is a licensed CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. in the state of Maryland. "These are exciting times for CityView and we have assembled an extraordinary team of professionals to achieve our goals. Part of our mission is to continue to improve the services we provide to our builders, lenders and investors," stated Enfield. About CityView Based in Santa Monica, California For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades and Brentwood on the north, , CityView's mission is to create high-quality housing for working families. CityView works with the best homebuilders to design innovative communities and to provide homebuyers with quality homes. CityView's "Capital Plus" strategy provides its partners with more than just debt and equity financing Equity Financing The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money paid, shareholders receive ownership interests in the corporation. offering a unique blend of community outreach, entitlement support, site identification, marketing assistance and project insurance. As of the end of 2005, CityView projects had $750 million invested in workforce housing development. To learn more about CityView, please visit: www.city-view.net. |
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