Jim is the National Head of Retail Investments and Retail Capital Markets for

Lincoln Property Company, and co-founder of the retail investment firm, Paragon

Commercial Group, Lincoln’s west coast retail investment partner.

Jim began his career as a real estate and finance attorney with Latham & Watkins

LLP where he represented developers, equity investors and lenders in capital

structuring, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and entitlements throughout the

United States.

Jim co-founded Paragon in 2009 to capitalize on retail real estate investment

opportunities resulting from the GFC market dislocation. Since that time, Jim has

been honored by the Urban Land Institute as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” land

use and real estate professionals in the United States, by the Los Angeles Business

Journal as one of the top 5 retail real estate professionals in Los Angeles, and

twice recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a Commercial Real Estate Visionary.

Jim currently serves in various industry leadership capacities including the

Executive Committee of the Southern Methodist University Folsom Institute for

Real Estate, Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban

Economics at UC Berkeley, Executive Committee Board of the USC Gould School

of Law Real Estate Law and Business Forum, immediate past Chairman of the

Urban Land Institute's Small Scale Development Council, and lecturer at the

University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the UC Berkeley

Masters of Real Estate programs.

Jim’s civic involvements include his current service as a Planning Commissioner

for the City of Manhattan Beach, California, as well as a founding donor and

advisor to the SMU Real Estate Impact Fund, a student-driven investment vehicle

focused on impact investing in underserved communities.

Mark is the President and Founder of MJW Investments. After beginning his career as an attorney, Los Angeles native Mark J. Weinstein founded MJW Investments in 1983 when he discovered the potential of real estate investment and development through several successful ventures. Under his leadership MJW has acquired approximately 1 billion dollars of real estate holdings in all asset types. He also spearheaded the adaptive reuse of Santee Village, one of Los Angeles’ largest adaptive reuse projects of over 800,000 sqft. of mixed-use in the Fashion District of Downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Weinstein’s passion for, and expertise in property repositioning has been a guiding factor in the company’s growth and success.

Mark is the majority owner of the firm’s $800MM diversified real estate holdings. More recently, Mark has led the firm’s strategic growth into student housing and has amassed a portfolio of student housing properties at Michigan State, Washington State, Brigham Young University, UC Santa Barbara, Texas Tech, University of Illinois and University of Oregon. The firm continues to expand its Southern California multifamily portfolio.

Throughout his career, Mr. Weinstein has maintained active associations and leadership with numerous civic and philanthropic groups. These include a three year term as Chair of the Jewish Federation’s Real Estate Construction Division; and active associations with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Guardians, an agency dedicated to serving the elderly, and the Jewish Venture Philanthropy fund.

Mr. Weinstein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara (summa cum laude), and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School (dean’s list).