Ian C. Gillis

“As a real estate professional with international experience and outlook, I am excited about creating neighborhoods and communities with vision and tradition; enduring environments which will provide future generations with remarkable places in which to live.”

Ian C. Gillis is President and a principal of Urban Community Partners, LLC. With more than 30 years in the real estate industry, both in the United States and the United Kingdom, Ian has a broad range of experience in land acquisition and entitlement, community planning, development, asset management and disposition.

Ian has held senior management positions with international development companies and has established new development operations in Southern California, Hawaii and Northern California, having bottom-line financial responsibility for major commercial and residential projects.

Ian co-founded Urban Community Partners in 2001, to focus on Smart Growth Traditional Neighborhood Design projects. Since that time, Ian has carried out consulting engagements in the United States and the UK and has been engaged as a partner and development lead in the East Garrison, a 244 acre, 1,400 unit, public-private partnership, military base re-use project on the former Fort Ord in Monterey County, California which is now under construction. Ian has also been acting as a development consultant and project manager for Laurel, a 1,000 unit Traditional Neighborhood Design project; incorporating an organic farm, in Yuma Arizona.

Ian serves on the boards of several non profit organizations including: the Monterey County Community Housing Trust, Common Ground, a non-profit dedicated to responsible growth and land stewardship and the Seaside Institute, a non-profit educational organization that promotes the building of community in cities and towns through design, education and the arts

Ian has been a speaker at national conferences including the Urban Land Institute, Pacific Coast Builders Conference, The National Appraisal Institute, The Association of Defense Communities, The Congress for New Urbanism and the Seaside Institute. Ian is a graduate of the University of Greenwich in London, and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the United Kingdom’s premier real estate professional organization. He is also a Professional Member of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Congress for New Urbanism.