Seth A. Brown, founder and principal, is an experienced real estate investor and development professional.

As a real estate investor, he specializes in projects where financial, legal, and political issues intersect – for example, developing a contextual building in a historic neighborhood in Brooklyn, or developing a proprietary asset management model for a national firm’s 13,000-unit rent-regulated apartment portfolio.

He recently completed 319 Fourth Street, a luxury brownstone development in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and previously completed Sterling Green, an 8-unit green condominium project in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. For both, he managed the entire development process, from site acquisition through construction and sales. 319 Fourth Street sold in the upper echelon of the Park Slope market, and Sterling Green yielded annualized returns of 30% for investors in 2009, in the midst of a very difficult economic environment for condominium development.

In 2002, he co-founded The Next American City Inc., a not-for-profit organization that promotes socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in America’s cities. Described by the New York Times as a “subtle plan to change the world,” the organization’s quarterly magazine has examined everything from new ideas in affordable housing finance to the role religion has played in saving New York City’s neighborhoods. The organization has since grown from a volunteer-led startup into a not-for-profit with national impact.

Seth is also a member of the national advisory board of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, a program of the Urban Land Institute.

Prior to his work in real estate, Seth was a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC, now part of Booz & Company.

Seth graduated from Yale College, where he studied history, and later received an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where he concentrated in finance.