Real Estate Development
We offer flexible partnership structures tailored to each client’s needs, providing either development services for a fee or co-development opportunities where we invest alongside our partners.
Senior developers who take complex sites from vision to completion, working alongside the communities they serve.
10M+ square feet developed · Master-planned communities, multifamily, mixed-use · San Francisco · Los Angeles · Denver · Washington, D.C.
Vilkin Real Estate Partners is a partnership of senior development executives, each with decades of experience. Together we have developed more than 10 million square feet of institutional-grade real estate — master-planned communities, multifamily housing both affordable and market rate, and mixed-use projects pairing office and hotel with residential.
Our experience concentrates where projects stall: complex entitlements, public-private partnerships, and financing structures that have to be built rather than borrowed.
We take on sites where approvals are the binding constraint — contested rezonings, multi-jurisdiction review, and historic and environmental overlays. At The Baylands that meant taking 700 acres of closed landfill and rail yards through a community-approved Specific Plan, a ballot measure, and a development agreement vesting entitlements for 25 years.
We structure work between developers and public agencies where neither side can move alone. In Oakland that meant stabilizing a downtown without displacing a single existing resident — a plan that became the basis of the Mayor’s 10K Plan to bring 10,000 residents downtown.
We build capital structures where conventional ones don’t reach: tax increment districts, Community Facilities Districts, Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts, land option agreements, and historic tax credits. Stapleton alone required more than $1 billion in environmental cleanup and infrastructure. At The Baylands we established a utility-scale battery storage project carrying more than $300 million of its own financing.
Each of our partners has held senior operating responsibility at institutional scale — running development platforms, delivering construction programs, or managing capital for institutional owners.
We have worked together for decades, across multiple firms. Projects are executed by teams, not by collections of individuals — and this team knows its own strengths, where each of us needs support, and how the group performs when a project gets difficult.
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Real estate development, investment management and advisory services.
We offer flexible partnership structures tailored to each client’s needs, providing either development services for a fee or co-development opportunities where we invest alongside our partners.
We manage and restructure real estate assets for institutional owners, with a focus on situations that have gone sideways.
Selected projects. Roles range from master developer to fee developer to capital partner, noted on each. Includes projects led by our partners at prior firms.
Four projects, each showing the same thing: what the constraint was, how we structured around it, and what it produced.
4,700 acres and $3.4 billion delivered. 12,000 homes, 31 schools, 10x return on peak investment.
1,001 hotel rooms, 200,000 square feet of convention space, and 220 branded condominiums.
700 acres of closed landfill and rail yards entitled for 4,000 homes, 7 million square feet of commercial space, and 150 acres of parks.
A downtown stabilized without displacing existing residents. 1,000 units and 200,000 square feet of retail re-tenanted.
