Alan M. Katz Senior Vice President

At Brookwood, Alan Katz focuses on development management, entitlements, property due diligence and design management activities. Alan’s experience as an architect, urban designer, corporate real estate leader and private sector developer over the past thirty years guides his understanding, relationships and strategies in both the private and public sector projects he undertakes.

Alan was Senior Vice President of Development at Stockbridge Real Estate Funds from 2003 to 2009. Stockbridge is a San Francisco based real estate investment firm pursuing opportunistic strategies with over $3B in assets under management. In Alan’s role, he provided development oversight on several of the projects within Stockbridge’s portfolio, including the two-phase 670,000 s.f. Centennial Towers--working closely with Shepherd Heery who, at the time, was with Myers Development Company.

While at Spieker Properties and Equity Office Properties from 2000 through 2003, as Director of Development, Alan had overall responsibility for the approvals, development and construction of the award winning Bay Meadows Mixed-Use Project in San Mateo, CA. This 10 acre project (including office, retail, restaurants, housing, underground parking and off-site public infrastructure) is one of only a few true mixed-use projects in California that has completed the entire development and operations cycle through disposition.

From 1995 to 2000, Alan was Director of Corporate Real Estate, Facilities and Operations for The Gymboree Corporation, an international specialty retailer traded on NASDAQ. Reporting to the CFO and the COO, Alan was responsible for the strategic planning, real estate transactions, development and construction of the company’s corporate headquarters and distribution centers.

Alan is a Licensed Architect in the State of California and has practiced architecture and urban design with SOM (Chicago), Cooper-Ecstut (NYC) and RMW (San Francisco) with an emphasis on renovation, adaptive reuse of existing structures, master planning strategies and urban infill projects. Alan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree from UC Berkeley, a Masters of Architecture degree from Columbia University and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University.