URBAN REAL ESTATE EQUITIES - Key Persons
Ben is an accomplished runner and a vegetarian chef of some repute. Along with his dog on Sunday mornings, he is a frequent "inspector and property manager" of the grounds and trails of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Music and the cultural attributes of the City and Bay Area are some of Ben's strongest affiliations.
has more than 35 years of successful acquisition, development, adaptive reuse and management of income producing real estate. Mr. Kelly joined Consolidated Capital in 1972 and was responsible for the negotiation, acquisition and disposition, development, leasing and management of more than $2 billion in commercial and multi-family residential properties. When the company was sold in 1985, Mr. Kelly was CEO of four of their publicly traded REITs with combined capitalization in excess of $1 billion dollars. Subsequently Mr. Kelly was principal of MK Consulting Company providing a full range of real estate services to clients in California and Texas, and a principal with an East Bay based partnership, engaged in private equity real estate investment and development in California. In 2001, Mr. Kelly formed MK Equities Group focused on commercial and residential development in San Francisco.
has over thirty years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to forming Urban Real Estate Advisors in 2006, Ms Finnegan spent more than 20 years with the world's largest full service brokerage firm, and served as the Regional Manager for the San Francisco Bay Area operations from 1996-2002. During her management tenure, she succeeded in growing San Francisco revenues by 450 percent and increasing market share 20-fold. In 2001, the office was ranked as the No.1 brokerage firm by the San Francisco Business Times. In addition to the operations/profit & loss responsibilities, Ms. Finnegan was the Senior Managing Director for the San Francisco Bay Area Corporate Advisory Group.
As a sales professional, Ms. Finnegan has completed more than 5 million square feet of leases with an aggregate lease/sales value in excess of $900 million. Several major accounts secured by Ms. Finnegan include AT&T 16 Western States account management, Veritas Software Global account, the long term client relationship management work for Bechtel Corporation, SBC Communications, Blue Shield of California, Baker & McKenzie, O'Melveny & Myers, California Pacific Medical Center, Unico Properties, and Macquarie Bank. In addition, Ms. Finnegan has handled the pro-bono real estate needs for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and several other non profit entities.
Prior to joining the brokerage world , Ms. Finnegan spent six years as vice president/project manager for two Bay Area real estate developers, supervising office, shopping center, and commercial condominium projects. Her responsibilities encompassed site selection, planning and design conceptualization, architectural and consultant selections, government approvals, lender pro forma, construction and take-out financing, and interfacing with brokers in marketing of lease or sale projects. She was also responsible for the selection and supervision of general contractors during shell and interior build-out and the establishment of ongoing operations and property management.