Former Hines executive Jon Wood opens Legacy Partners office in Florida
FOSTER CITY, Calif. (June 19, 2018) – Legacy Partners (Legacy), a privately owned national real estate firm, announced today their expansion into the Southeast with a regional office located just outside Orlando, Florida, as well as the hiring of industry veteran Jon C. Wood as Senior Managing Director, Southeast. Wood will be responsible for launching the Southeast presence, including site selection, market and financial analyses, due diligence, product design, entitlements, permits, financing, construction, property and asset management, risk management, and strategic planning. Legacy has five other offices across the Western and Midwestern United States.
“Jon will be instrumental in expanding our presence into the Southeast,” said Legacy CEO W. Dean Henry. “His both deep and broad experience spans more than two decades of development leadership, including leading a pipeline of 8,500 apartments throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions with a combined market capitalization of more than $2 billion. We’re excited to have him on our leadership team, and to help us continue growing our brand of development and property management.”
“Legacy has an impressive, multi-state portfolio and decades of industry leadership and institutional knowledge,” said Jon Wood. “With our combined experiences, I think we’ll soon be making quite an impact on the Southeast region’s multifamily industry. I’m looking forward to beginning a new chapter with the team as we chart a thoughtful and strategic path forward.”
Wood was previously the Southeast Managing Director of Development for Hines, where he launched and oversaw their multifamily development platform in the Southeast region. Prior to joining Hines, Wood was the East Coast Division Partner for The Morgan Group, a national multifamily development firm based in Houston where he was responsible for managing multifamily development projects in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. He has also held multifamily development positions at Archstone in Washington, D.C. and Trammel Crow Residential in Florida.
Wood has an MBA from the University of Florida, with concentrations in Real Estate, Finance and Entrepreneurship, where he took first place in the program’s Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Cum Laude, from Rollins College.
Wood is an active member of the National Multi Housing Council, Urban Land Institute, and University of Florida Friends and Alumni of Real Estate. He also served as a Director on the University of Florida Real Estate Advisory Board.
About Legacy Partners
Legacy Partners (Legacy), a privately held real estate firm founded in 1968 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, owns, develops and manages multifamily communities throughout the United States. Legacy has regional offices in California, Colorado, Florida, Texas, and Washington and have developed more than 60,000 apartment homes in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Since inception, Legacy has worked with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, life insurance companies, and real estate companies, consistently returning exceptional results.
Legacy provides management services for its own portfolio, as well as other owners. Combined, Legacy manages a portfolio of over 60 multifamily communities with more than 14,000 apartment homes, and with a gross value in excess of $2 billion. For further information, please visit legacypartners.com.
