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DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Robert S. Davis
Jason
Duckworth
W. Joseph Duckworth
Christopher
B. Leinberger
Rich
Wilson
Greg Berman
John Curtin
Andy Wright
Eric Carlson
STAFF
Jeanne
Coburn
Jean
D’Eliso
Sue Keith
Sean
Hardgrove
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OFFICE
355 Lancaster Avenue,
Bldg. C1
Haverford, Pa 19041
tel (610) 649-5400
fax (610) 649-5450
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ABOUT ARCADIA
Founded
in 1997, Arcadia Land Company is a real estate development and services
organization dedicated to the responsible and profitable development of
land.
Development
Arcadia's founders were brought
together by a single purpose - to create walkable neighborhoods in
harmony with nature. Inspired by great old towns like Annapolis,
Santa Fe, and West Chester and great new towns like Seaside,
Celebration, and Kentlands, Arcadia develops "smart" communities in
cities, suburbs and rural settings.
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Services
As advisors, we enhance the value
of our clients' real estate assets by creating and implementing
market-driven and fact-based development strategies. We serve
property owners, financial institutions, investors and developers in
areas ranging from "smart growth" development techniques to real estate
workouts to fee development.
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Team
We are nationally renowned
developers and real estate experts who have received some of the most
prestigious awards in our field, ranging from National Builder of the
Year to the ULI Award for Excellence. Our partners are industry
thought-leaders who publish regularly, speak widely, and are even the
subject of several books.
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THE
ARCADIA TEAM
ROBERT DAVIS

Robert
Davis, a partner at
Arcadia Land Company, is the developer and co-founder of Seaside,
Florida, the first and most celebrated new urban community in the
United States.
With over 300 homes, a vibrant
town center of stores and restaurants, a range of civic facilities, a
theater, inns, and a charter school, Seaside is not only wonderful
place to live and visit but it is also considered the most successful
example of neo-traditional town planning today. Seaside’s success
has inspired communities around the world and helped launch the
movement now known as the new urbanism.
Mr. Davis is a graduate of
Antioch College and Harvard Business School and was a Fellow of the
American Academy in Rome. He is an experienced developer who has
won industry recognition for projects such as Apogee, a townhouse
community in Coconut Grove, Miami.
Please visit www.SeasideFL.com
to learn more
about Mr. Davis and the Seaside Community.
Contact Robert
JASON
DUCKWORTH
Jason
Duckworth
is President of Arcadia Land Company where he leads development
efforts in Pennsylvania and oversees Arcadia
Development Services.
During Jason’s tenure with Arcadia, the
Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance has recognized Arcadia three
times—more than any other developer—for its Bryn Eyre, The Dreycott,
and Sadsbury Park developments. Jason and Arcadia’s work on the
New Daleville traditional neighborhood was featured in author Witold
Rybczynski’s 2007 book, Last
Harvest.
Prior to Arcadia, Jason had a career in
private equity with Crosslink Capital in San Francisco. Earlier,
he was an associate for management consultants McKinsey & Company
in New York. He has an AB in Urban Studies from Princeton
University, where he was elected student body president and named to
Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.Litt. in geography from Oxford University,
England, which he attended on a Daniel M. Sachs Scholarship.
During his studies at Oxford, Jason was a university instructor of
economic geography to undergraduates.
Outside of Arcadia, Jason is active with
the Congress for the New Urbanism
(CNU), where he co-chaired CNU XV, the national gathering of the CNU
held in Philadelphia in May 2007. Jason is also involved with the
Urban
Land Institute, where he is a member of the Residential Development
Council. A frequent speaker on Smart Growth topics, Jason
volunteers his time to progressive land use organizations throughout
the Philadelphia region. He is a supporter and past board
director of the Caring for Carcinoid
Foundation.
Jason resides in walkable Narberth,
Pennsylvania with his wife, Angela, and daughters, Amanda and Lucy.
Contact
Jason
W. JOSEPH DUCKWORTH

W.
Joseph Duckworth is a partner
at Arcadia Land Company, a leading Smart Growth
Developer. Arcadia is creating new urbanist and conservation
development communities in New Mexico, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Mr.
Duckworth is also President of Bryn Eyre, Inc. the general partner of
Bryn Eyre, LP, which has purchased 3000 acres in Morgantown, PA to
create a new town which is planned to include 12000 homes and 5 Million
square feet of commercial development. Bryn Eyre and Arcadia’s Sadsbury
Park community, a new urbanist village expansion in Chester County have
both won recognition from the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance.
Mr. Duckworth was named NATIONAL BUILDER OF THE YEAR for 1992 by Professional
Builder magazine.
Mr.
Duckworth was a member of
the Chester County Planning Commission from 1992 to 2002 and served as
its Chair for the most recent three years of his term. He sits on
the Board of Trustees of the Natural Lands Trust, 10,000 Friends of
Pennsylvania, the Franklin Institute, and The National Constitution
Center (NCC). He serves on the Board of Overseers for the Penn Design,
the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He is
the former Chair of the Residential Council of the Urban Land Institute
(Blue Flight).
Mr.
Duckworth has served as a
faculty member of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design. He is a
contributing author to Land Use in America, published in
1996. He has lectured professionally on development issues at the
Wharton School and on urban design and planning at the Penn Design and
at Temple University. Professionally, he has spoken at meetings
of the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Home Builders
and at national Smart Growth Conferences.
Mr.
Duckworth is a member of the
World Presidents’ Organization (WPO) and the Chief Executives’
Organization (CEO). He was the founding International Chairman of
the Wharton Presidents’ Seminar for YPO (Young Presidents’
Organization). He is an Advisory Board member of Robertson
Brothers, a community developer in Michigan. In 1993, he was
named as Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Entrepreneur of the
Year in Real Estate.”
Mr.
Duckworth is the former
President and CEO of Realen Homes, a prominent builder of residential
communities. Under his stewardship, Realen grew to $100 million
per year and expanded from its Philadelphia base into the Chicago
market. He was previously Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer of Toll Brothers. He has a BS degree
from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Joe
and his wife, Loretta, have four grown children and reside in Berwyn,
Pennsylvania.
Contact Joseph
CHRISTOPHER
LEINBERGER

Christopher
B.
Leinberger is a land use strategist, teacher, researcher, consultant,
developer and author. Mr. Leinberger has three current
professional responsibilities. He is a founding partner of
Arcadia Land Company. Arcadia has or has had projects in
Independence (Missouri), Chester County (Pennsylvania), Montgomery
County (Pennsylvania) and downtown Albuquerque (New Mexico).
He
is also a
Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where he is
focused on downtown and suburban town center development, strategic
planning and management. Finally, Mr. Leinberger is a Professor
of Practice and Director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the
University of Michigan. A joint venture of the business, law and
architecture/urban planning graduate schools, the program focuses on
“progressive” real estate; downtown and suburban town center
revitalization, transit-oriented development, new urbanism,
conservation development, etc. He is writing a book with
the working title of On Growth; The Next American Dreams, to
be jointly published by Island Press and Brookings Press.
For 20 years, Mr. Leinberger was co-owner and Managing Director of
Robert Charles Lesser & Co., the country's largest independent real
estate advisory firm. His consulting work focused on corporate
strategic planning for real estate companies, metropolitan development
trends and strategic planning for downtowns. He has been on numerous
publicly traded and privately owned corporate boards of directors,
including AvalonBay Communities, traded on the NYSE and one of the most
highly valued rental apartment REITs in the country.
As an award-winning author, Leinberger has contributed chapters to and
written a number of books, such as Strategic Planning for Real
Estate Companies, Sustainable Development, Urban Parks and
Open Space and The Transformation of Suburban Business
Districts, all published by the Urban Land Institute. He
has written numerous articles for national magazines, trade journals
and academic journals regarding land use and real estate issues,
including The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Urban Land,
Brookings Review, among others. His articles have been awarded the
Apgar Award for the best pieces in Urban Land magazine in 1995 and
2003, as well as other national awards. In addition, he and his work
have been profiled by CNN, National Public Radio (Morning Edition,
Prime Time, Smart City), The Today Show, Albuquerque Journal, New
Mexico Business Weekly, Architectural Record, Shopping Centers Today,
among others.
Leinberger was Co-chair of the New Mexico Governor Richardson's Task
Force on Our Communities and Our Future and served on the Planned
Growth Strategy Implementation Task Force and the Impact Fee Task Force
in Albuquerque. He also serves on the advisory boards of The
Conservation Fund and the Enterprise Foundation.
Mr. Leinberger received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore
College, where he majored in Political Science and Sociology. He
received an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr.
Leinberger and his wife, Lisa, live in the DuPont Circle/Kalorama area
of Washington, DC, within walking distance of Brookings, Metro, his
publishers and his wife's work at The Phillips Collection.
Contact Christopher
RICH WILSON
Rich
Wilson,
Vice President
joined Arcadia's Wayne office in May of 2007 as a development associate
and is involved in a variety of projects across the Delaware Valley
region.
Prior to joining Arcadia, Rich worked for
five years in an urban design and planning consulting firm and is a
registered landscape architect. He graduated with a Bachelor's
degree in Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University, and
attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. At
Penn, he studied planning and real estate development at the School of
Design and the Wharton School, receiving a Master of City
Planning degree, concentrating in urban development with a Certificate in
Real Estate Design and Development. Rich is a member of the
Urban Land Institute (ULI) and
the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).
Rich lives in walkable Ambler, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kristi and
daughter, Kate.
Contact
Rich
GREG BERMAN
Greg
Berman is a project director at Arcadia Land Company where he consults
for Arcadia Development Services. Greg brings seven years of real
estate experience to the team, starting at Arcadia where he was
responsible for many aspects of Arcadia’s 3,500 acre Bryn Eyre project
including environmental due diligence, financial modeling, coordinating
planning and engineering firms, and working with various state agencies
to secure utility and other permits. During his time at Arcadia,
he also worked on several other communities, including Woodmont,
Sadsbury and the Dreycott condominium project. After
his initial time at Arcadia, he joined Wickapogue Partners, a real
estate private equity firm based in New York. At Wickapogue, he
worked on a variety of equity and debt transactions, including market
rate and rent stabilized multifamily, commercial office, retail, and
self storage assets. Wickapogue was primarily focused on the
purchase of distressed debt and origination of hard money loans, often
in situations which required active asset management on their
part. This experience gives Greg a solid base to understand
transactions from the perspective of a lender and ways in which a
lender can successfully asset manage a project. Greg
completed his undergraduate studies at The University of Pennsylvania,
Wharton School. During his time at Penn, he also started an Asian
Fusion Restaurant & Teahouse called Bubble House, which is still in
operation today. While at Arcadia, he was also past president of
The Reading Viaduct Project, a non-profit community revitalization
organization. He currently resides in New York, NY. Contact Greg
JOHN CURTIN
John Curtin is a
project manager with Arcadia’s Development Services division.
Prior to joining Arcadia, John was a land manager for six years
with the Pulte Home Corporation. John was part of a land
department team that grew throughout the real estate boom and helped
manage and approve tens of thousands of lots across the Delaware
Valley. While there, he managed teams of consultants throughout
the entire acquisition, entitlement, construction, and dedication
process. John has a range of experience from working closely with
land sellers, elected officials, real estate professionals and home
buyers, to offering strategic insight on engineering, site design,
architecture, marketing and contract negotiation.
John graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science in
Civil Engineering. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and
is a recent LEED AP under the US Green Building Certification Institute.
John lives in Center City Philadelphia, which is known to have the
highest number of commuter cyclists and remains among the top most
walkable cities in the United States. John continues his passion
for racing and competition through running marathons, climbing
mountains and being active member of the UBC rowing club on Boathouse
Row in Philadelphia.
Contact John
ANDY WRIGHT
Andy Wright, AICP is a project
manager/consultant with Arcadia’s
Development Services Division.
Andy’s fourteen years of expertise
includes management of the due diligence process, environmental remediation,
estimation/value engineering of site improvements and the procurement of
complete land entitlements for residential, commercial and mixed use projects
throughout the Eastern and Midwestern United States. Andy has also served
as a land planner in both the public and private sectors.
Additionally, Andy is the president
and owner of the land development consulting company, Wright Consulting
Partners.
Andy is a certified land planning
professional (AICP) with the American Planning Association. He is also a
member of the Urban Land Institute and the PA Chapter of the APA. Andy
graduated from West Chester
University with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Land Planning.
Andy resides in Exton, Pennsylvania
with his wife, Yvonne and daughters, Alexandra and Annika. He is an avid
recreational bicyclist and enjoys professional hockey and motorsports.
ERIC CARLSON
Eric Carlson joined
Arcadia Land Company as a Development Associate in September of 2009
and is primarily involved with Arcadia’s Development Services division.
Prior
to joining Arcadia, Eric held a number of internships, most recently
with the Delaware County Planning Department, and Historic Charleston
Foundation. In 2008, Eric graduated from Haverford College with a
Bachelor’s degree in Growth and Structure of Cities.
At
Haverford College, Eric played four years of lacrosse and during his
senior year the team was invited to the NCAA tournament for the first
time in the program’s history. Eric has also coached at the high
school level, most recently at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood,
Pennsylvania.
Eric
resides in Ardmore, Pennsylvania and is a member of the Urban Land
Institute.
Contact Eric
JEANNE COBURN
Jeanne
Coburn is the
executive assistant and office manager in our Haverford office.
Before
coming to
Arcadia, Jeanne worked for a large commercial real estate service
provider and for many years prior to that with an environmental
consulting firm.
She has a BA from the College of New
Rochelle and graduate courses in management and accounting from
Villanova University. Following college, she served in the Peace Corps
in Nigeria and has loved to travel ever since.
Jeanne has three grown children and lives
in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Contact
Jeanne
JEAN D'ALISO
Jean
D’Eliso is the
executive assistant and office manager for the San Francisco office,
where she began work in 2002.
She has a wide range of experience in office administration, from a
large international news retrieval firm to a small benefits
administration firm. She has a degree from City College of San
Francisco and has done course work at San Francisco State University.
Jean
resides in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters.
Contact Jean
SUE KEITH
Sue
Keith is the
financial manager of Arcadia Land Company. She is responsible for
maintaining the financial records for Arcadia Land Company and all of
its projects. Sue has a Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration, with a concentration in accounting, from the University
of Connecticut.
Sue lives in Upper Uwchlan Township,
Downingtown, Pennsylvania with husband Dennis and two children, Danny
and Jessie.
Contact
Sue
SEAN HARDGROVE
Sean
Hardgrove is the
executive assistant for Christopher Leinberger.
Sean
lives and
works in the Washington D.C. area.
Contact Sean
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