Melissa joins AC Development with a broad breadth of development experience across office, multi-family, hospitality and adaptive reuse/conversion projects. With 15 years’ experience leading complex, urban infill, mixed-use development projects, Melissa has experience leading entitlements, project capitalization, design and construction, leasing, and long-term strategic operation of assets. At AC Development, Melissa focuses on executing multi-family and hospitality projects.

Prior to joining AC Development, Melissa was Vice President of Development at Nichols Partnership where she managed close to a million square feet of mixed-use office, multi-family, and hotel projects in her decade plus long tenure with the family office. This includes two high-rise (office and hotel) apartment conversion projects; Art Studios and Turntable Studios.

Melissa holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado in Denver and dual undergraduate degrees from CU Boulder in Economics and International Affairs. Out of graduate school, Melissa began her development career at the Denver Housing Authority where she focused on mixed-income, master planned tax credit projects.

Melissa has served the broader real estate community as an active ULI Multifamily Product Council member, mayoral appointed Denver Design Advisory Board member (2019-2021), and member of multiple Denver development task force and design review committees. Melissa has maintained an active Colorado real estate brokerage license for the past eighteen years, which keeps her family on their toes with a constant passion for just one more project.