Jeff Kingsbury

Managing Principal

Jeff Kingsbury is managing principal of Greenstreet Ltd., an Indiana-based real estate development, brokerage and consulting firm. He is responsible for general management of the firm, in addition to leading business plan strategies for the firm’s clients and projects. The firm is currently engaged in a joint venture as the master developer of a mixed-use urban redevelopment project in Indianapolis, planned for $500 million in new public and private investment. Jeff is also an associate principal of UrbanGreen, a San Francisco-based development and advisory firm.

Jeff’s experience includes nearly twenty years in the planning and development of thirty urban, suburban, rural and resort master planned communities throughout the United States, encompassing over 35,000 acres. He has managed the sale of $350 million in real estate, and consulted on planning, redevelopment and development regulation issues for private sector clients as well as cities, counties and non-profits in sixteen states. He has held principal and senior executive positions with McStain Neighborhoods and Durango Mountain Resort in Colorado, Kirkwood Mountain Resort in California, Grossman Company Properties in Boise, Idaho and The Shaw Company in Chicago. Jeff has been a senior advisor to Cherokee, the leading private equity firm investing capital and expertise in brownfield redevelopment, with more than $2 billion under management.

Jeff is recognized nationally as an expert in sustainable building and development best-practices. His home building and project development experience includes a portfolio of the leading sustainable development projects in the nation: the 4,700-acre redevelopment of Denver’s Stapleton International Airport, the nation’s largest urban redevelopment project (ULI Award for Excellence); Belmar, a 103-acre regional mall redevelopment in Lakewood, Colorado (ULI Award for Excellence); Lowry, an 1,866-acre redevelopment of the Lowry Air Force Base in Denver; Hidden Springs, a 1,844-acre rural new town outside Boise, Idaho; Prairie Crossing, a 667-acre master planned community in Grayslake, Illinois; and Homan Square, a 55-acre redevelopment of the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. world headquarters in Chicago (ULI Award for Excellence).

Jeff holds degrees in urban planning and development and environmental design from the College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, where he has served as Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning. Active in education and community affairs, he has served on the governing boards of Ball State University; the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities; and the Golden Apple Foundation in Chicago. He is a co-author of the book Developing Sustainable Planned Communities (ULI, 2007) as well as a teacher and frequent speaker on sustainable development issues for such organizations as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Efficient Building Association, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, the National Town Builders Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the Urban Land Institute. Jeff has been an advisor to The Conservation Fund’s Center for Conservation and Development in Washington, DC and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Chairman of the Sustainable Development Council of the Urban Land Institute.