Mr. Brown directs development operations for all Freehold Communities projects, managing the company’s governmental and regulatory entitlements, community development, public financing, and construction operations. With more than thirty years of experience as a real estate executive, Mr. Brown has a comprehensive background working with local governmental agencies to obtain, improve, or perfect land-use entitlements. His ability to manage complex development budgets through engineering redesign and renegotiation of agency requirements is a valuable asset to his role as Land Operations Manager.
Prior to joining the Freehold team, Mr. Brown led Development Operations for SunCal Companies, where he directed the development process for SunCal’s communities in Northern and Southern California, Nevada, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, and Georgia, including land acquisition, entitlements, regulatory approvals, community development, and land development construction. In this role, Mr. Brown was responsible for more than 30 large mixed-use communities, supervised a staff of more than 80 professionals, entitled 30,000 lots, and constructed approximately 20,000 lots. Mr. Brown previously served as President of the Orange County/Inland Empire Division of Western Pacific Housing, where he managed the company’s regional operations. Prior to his role at Western Pacific, Mr. Brown was the President of the Southern California Division of the Anden Group, a privately-owned national homebuilder. During his tenure with these two companies, he delivered approximately 4,000 homes.
Mr. Brown is a graduate of California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and earned a Juris Doctor from Western State College of Law. He is a member of the California Bar Association and a State of California Professional Engineer.
