Gary Chen

Gary Chen is a top-performing capital markets and real estate development senior executive with extensive experience overseeing acquisitions, development and asset management of commercial, multifamily, mixed use, hotel and life science properties. With over15 years of developer buy-side experience, Gary is skilled in overseeing all facets of project lifecycle from inception to completion, managing financial investments, capital raising, institutional investor relations and facilities management. As project manager, Gary was worked on land entitlements, rezoning and environmental impact reports. 

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Gary Chen has transacted over $300M in commercial acquisitions throughout San Francisco Bay Area and raised $500M in equity and debt financing nationwide. Gary acquired 92,000 SF office building for $60M with APPLE as anchor tenant located 500 & 501 Macara Road in Sunnyvale, CA. He followed up with a second acquisition at 145 El Camino Real in Menlo Park for $15M with Stanford Hospital as the anchor tenant. Moving forward Gary entitled ground up mixed-use development on 2515 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, CA for $27.7M to build 40,000 SF mixed use residential, commercial and retail. 

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As Capital Markets director Gary secured $27M land loan refinance for 575 River Rd, Edgewater, New Jersey a 370-unit multifamilydevelopment. He also secured $61M loan for 14-19 Port Imperial Blvd in Weehawken, NJ for a 280-unit condo development project.

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Gary is license real estate agent in California, with a Bachelors Degree in International Economics from Peking University. 

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