“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. 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 several new development operations in Southern California, Hawaii and Northern California, having bottom-line financial responsibility for major commercial and residential projects.

Since forming Urban Community Partners in 2001, to focus on smart growth Traditional Neighborhood Design projects, Ian has been primarily engaged in the East Garrison, a 244 acre, 1400 unit, public-private partnership, military base re-use project on the former Fort Ord in Monterey County, California which is now under construction. 

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

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