It's that time again--graduation days at schools, including higher ed in the CRE biz. Yesterday, we chatted with Justin Shapiro of San Francisco-based Long Market Property Partners, who graduated this month from the USC Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program.
Justin and a partner formed Long Market. The company, together with an equity partner out of Seattle, just closed on 995 Market St and is renovating and repositioning the office building. Justin, who graduated from Berkeley in 2001, has worked in the CRE industry in San Francisco for the past 12 years. He was interested in doing some entrepreneurial real estate ventures and enrolled in USC's MRED program last June to sharpen his development skills, commutingbetween San Fran and LA for 11 months. (Wait, 11 months each way? The rumors about the 405 are true.)
