As Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Callahan drives the vision, strategy and overall direction at Urban Renaissance Group (URG), a full-service commercial real estate operating company with approximately 6.2 million square feet of office space, nearly 80 employees and multiple award-winning acquisitions and redevelopments.

With more than twenty years’ experience in the real estate industry, Patrick has been directly involved in numerous multi-million dollar lease transactions, acquisitions, development projects, assimilations, asset repositions and renovations. His firm has placed more than $500 million in capital on behalf of clients in downtown Seattle and Portland in the last 24 months alone.

Prior to founding URG in 2006, Patrick held numerous key roles at Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP). As Senior Vice President, he oversaw a business unit of 18 million square feet, 114 buildings, 300 employees and more than $450 million in revenues in Seattle and Bellevue, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; and Denver, Co. He was also directly involved in more than 30 million square feet of acquisitions and 2.5 million square feet of completed development projects across nine markets. He played a significant role in one of the largest transactions in U.S. history when EOP acquired Spieker Properties for $7.2 billion in February 2001.

Marshall is a proven leader in planning and infrastructure initiatives, with extensive experience building high-performing teams across disciplines and managing large organizations and budgets. He is a passionate coalition builder, adept at building partnerships across government agencies, non-profits, and the community. He has deep experience in land use and transportation plannning, urban design and large-scale infrastructure and development projects - developing innovative approaches, working collaboratively, and managing competing priorities to ultimately make great projects happen.

In his real estate practice, Matt represents local and national developers, builders and lenders in all

aspects of acquisition, development, financing, construction, leasing, and disposition for single and

multi-family residential, mixed-use, office, and retail projects—with a focus on creative, cost-efficient

results. He creates private equity and debt funds for private regional lenders and other real estate-related

companies, and assists them on completing a range of financing transactions.

Matt’s work often involves large, complex projects such as assisting Chris Hansen and his affiliates in

the assessment, procurement and financing of a property portfolio for development and construction of a

new multi-modal use sports arena complex in the SODO district of Seattle, and representing King

County in its coordinated sale and ongoing operation of real estate for the expansion of the Washington

State Convention Center.

As CH&’s Managing Partner, Matt leads the firm’s business success, and has successfully developed

and implemented the firm’s strategic plan. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the firm,

including supervision and oversight of the firm’s administrative, financial, technological, and business

development functions.

Matt cares deeply about Seattle and the Puget Sound region. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels appointed

Matt to serve on the Council for Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority (PDA), a

public corporation chartered by the City of Seattle in 1973 which owns, operates, and manages the

properties in the nine-acre Pike Place Market Historic District. Matt is now the chair of the PDA

Council.