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15 Things You Need to Know This Morning

15 Things You Need to Know This Morning

What You Don’t Know About Brian McLaughlin

Title: CEO, Lantian Development.
Photo: Snorkeling in the Dominican Republic.
Years on the job: 1 1/2.
Company: Invested close to $60M in equity last year, picking up over 400 acres and 1.4M SF of office. On target to do $35M in 2016. “We get home for dinner with our families, but don’t usually call time out until after midnight. Weekends are off.”
CRE career: After grad school, worked with a community development corporation in York, PA. 
Memorable project: After completing several housing and other neighborhood projects in York, finished a modest 40k SF medical arts building in 2001. Building was dedicated to Special Olympian and York native Loretta Claiborne. 
Current project: Acquisition last month of former 200-acre HQ of Comsat in Clarksburg. Exploring how space can support biopharma research and production to include a business incubator wing, shared production line and anchored by tenant that would relocate from Frederick. 
Grew up: Tucson.
Why Tucson: Shared terrible allergies and asthma with brother and doctor told dad to relocate family to a drier climate. Moved at age 5. 
Current home: Silver Spring.
Schools: Duke (undergrad), MIT and American. 
First job: Opened a desert animal museum in backyard and charged neighborhood kids to see collection of tarantulas, scorpions, snakes, lizards and tortoises.
Job in another life: Google maps photographer for Europe, Africa and New Zealand.
Favorite app: Spotify.
Favorite radio shows: This American Life, All Things Considered and Car Talk. 
Favorite restaurant: Blue Duck Tavern.
Favorite book: The All American Skin Game by Stanley Crouch.
Favorite music: Kidz Bop (thanks to 7-year-old).
Favorite non-paid job: Judge for Miss Maryland Pageant.
Coast, desert or mountain: Desert.
Daily habit: 64 oz drink of spinach, kale, avocado and fruits with carrot juice.
Couldn’t live without: Music.
Family: Married 12 years; son (10) and daughter (7).
Hobbies: Coaching kids soccer—now in 11th season.
Favorite indulgence: Reese’s peanut butter cups.
Greatest fear: Swimming in ocean at night or running out of Doritos.
Person most admired: Grandfather—originator of Montgomery Bus Boycott and civil rights movement, introducing Rosa Parks in her first public speech and working side by side with Dr. Martin Luther King. 
Startling fact: Spent three months living within castle grounds of Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.

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