Jury Members

2012 Jury

John Bucksbaum

Jury Chair
Founder – Bucksbaum Retail Properties
Chicago, IL

John Bucksbaum, founder of Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC. Bucksbaum previously served as chairman and CEO of General Growth Properties, Inc., a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) which had ownership and management interest in over 200 regional and super regional shopping malls in 44 states. The company portfolio totaled approximately 200 million square feet of space.

Bucksbaum received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado in 1978. Professional affiliations include the following: past worldwide Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of ICSC; past Chairman of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at The Wharton School; Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). In addition Bucksbaum serves on the boards of the University of Chicago Hospitals, The Field Museum, the Chicago Sports Commission, the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team, USA Cycling, the Paralympics Advisory Committee to the U.S. Olympic Committee, Young Presidents Organization and the Advisory Board of the Chicago Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.

Ronald A. Altoon, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, SCDP

Founder and Partner, Altoon Partners, LLP
Los Angeles, California

Ronald A. Altoon, FAIA is Founding Design Partner of Altoon Partners, a 27-year Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Shanghai based planning, urban design, and architectural consulting firm. With commercial mixed-use, transit-oriented, higher education and historic preservation projects in 43 countries, his contextual design approach responds to environmental, regional, and cultural issues that build community. His projects have received over 75 awards for design excellence internationally.

Altoon lectures globally and is the author of seven books, including Urban Transformation: Transit Oriented Development and the Sustainable City, which highlights many TOD Public Private Partnerships.

A former National President of The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Altoon is the current Chair of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Los Angeles District Council, a current member of the ULI Program Committee and the Public-Private Partnerships Council, past member of the ULI Policy and Practice Committee, ULI Awards of Excellence Jury, and served on committees in support of the past two ULI Fall Meetings in Los Angeles. He served as well on the ULI New York/New Jersey World Trade Center Blue Ribbon Task Force.

Ronald Altoon is a Trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers and previously organized and chaired the 1989 AIA Armenian Earthquake Urban Design Assistance Task Force.

He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been married for 44 years to his wife Alice, a retired State of California Superior Court Judge. They have three children, ULI members Eric, a real estate attorney and Ryan, a real estate developer, and Emily, an interior design, communications, and marketing professional. They have four grandchildren and enjoy travel, classical music, opera, contemporary art, photography, and cooking.

F. Barton Harvey III

Retired, Chairman and CEO, Enterprise Community Partners
Baltimore, Maryland

Bart Harvey is the immediate past Chairman and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit that has raised and invested, along with partners, over $10 billion of private resources that have helped produce over 250,000 homes for low income households. Under Harvey’s leadership, Enterprise brought together leaders from the environmental and community development fields to create the Green Communities® initiative in 2004. This $555 million initiative exceeded by 50 percent its five-year goal of building more than 8,500 affordable homes that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and promote easy access to jobs, schools and services.

Mr. Harvey currently serves on Fannie Mae’s Board as well as a number of nonprofit Boards. Mr. Harvey was appointed by Congress to the Millennium Housing Commission from 2000 –2002 and has been a Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta as well as on the Advisory Boards for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He has served on numerous Boards including the Baltimore Education Scholarship Trust, Center Stage, the National Housing Conference, National Housing Trust, and Shepherd’s Clinic.

Most recently Mr. Harvey was chosen as the 2008 recipient of The Urban Land Institute J. C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, as well as the National Housing Conference’s 2008 Housing Person of the Year.

James D. Klingbeil

Chairman and CEO, Klingbeil Capital Management
Columbus, Ohio

James Klingbeil, Chairman and CEO of Klingbeil Capital Management has over 50 years of development experience with Multi-Family and Residential product types. He built his first 19-unit garden apartment property in Columbus, Ohio, while attending The Ohio State University. Over the next five decades, Mr. Klingbeil, and entities with which he was affiliated, developed, acquired, renovated, repositioned, managed and/or sold an aggregate of 185 apartment communities including a wide variety of apartment product types containing over 43,000 units in 47 metropolitan markets. Klingbeil Capital Management is now focused on asset management and institutional investment.

Mr. Klingbeil currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Klingbeil Capital Management which acts as the Investment Manager for multi-family value-added investment funds as well as other Klingbeil family investments. Mr. Klingbeil also serves as Chairman of The Klingbeil Company, which he founded in 1961. The Klingbeil Company has engaged in nearly every aspect of residential real estate investment, development, construction and management since its formation. Mr. Klingbeil has also participated in the development of sales housing, as a co-founder and Chairman of the Anden Group from 1975-1985, which built approximately $1 billion of sales housing not only in the United States, but also in Paris and London.

Mr. Klingbeil has been active throughout his career in real estate and business organizations, as well as national and community activities. The bulk of his industry involvement has revolved around the Urban Land Institute (ULI), for which he has served on various committees and as a Trustee for over 30 years. He served as President of the ULI from 1991 to 1993. He was Chairman of the Urban Land Institute Foundation until July 2012.. Mr. Klingbeil also serve as Chairman of the Board of UDR, Inc., a publicly traded real estate development trust. He serves as Trustee and Executive Committee member of the Ohio State Foundation.

David M. Schwarz

President and CEO, David M. Schwarz Architects
Washington, DC

David M. Schwarz is President and CEO of David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. He founded the firm in Washington, DC in 1976. In addition to his executive duties, Mr. Schwarz’s primary responsibility is as Principal in Charge of Design. He leads, orchestrates and reviews the design process of all the firm’s projects.

Mr. Schwarz received his B.A. at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, and Master of Architecture at Yale University. Mr. Schwarz currently serves as Chairman of the Yale School of Architecture Dean’s Council; a member of the Executive committee of the Yale University Capital Campaign; a member of the jury of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture; on the Boards of Directors of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach Florida and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Arlington, VA; and a member of the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund. Additionally, he serves as the Jury Chairman for the Vincent J. Scully Prize Fund Endowment of the National Building Museum.

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