Dive Brief:

• Brian Dawson will be the new CEO at Washington, D.C.,-based Hoffman & Associates, a developer of mixed-use and residential communities, according to a release shared with Multifamily Dive. He will replace Mark Dorigan, who will continue to serve as a member of the company’s investment committee board.
• Prior to stepping into the CEO role, Dawson served as a managing director and the mid-Atlantic market leader at Chicago-based global real estate services company JLL. There, he worked with Hoffman & Associates on major projects, including The Wharf in Washington, D.C., and Seaboard Station in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Dawson’s career spans more than 30 years, with a focus on investment sales, equity and debt originations, acquisitions and recapitalizations, including completing more than $30 billion in capital transactions. He began his career at Washington, D.C,-based investment and advisory group Spaulding & Slye Colliers, where he co-founded the capital markets practice. That firm merged into JLL in 2006. 

Dive Insight:

For Monty Hoffman, co-founder and chairman of Hoffman & Associates, Dawson’s expensive capital markets experience made him an excellent fit for the CEO role. 

“Our team has been searching for a candidate with extensive experience, a track record of success and visionary leadership,” he said in the news release announcing the hiring. “Brian exemplifies all of these qualities and will be instrumental in leading the company’s next phase of growth.”

Hoffman & Associates currently has a $6 billion portfolio and development pipeline across the mid-Atlantic and Southeast markets, including over 75 mixed-use, residential, office and retail projects. Its largest project is The Wharf, a 3.5 million-square-foot mixed-use development along a mile of waterfront in Washington, D.C.

“Having collaborated with the team on The Wharf for nearly a decade during my time with JLL, I have been continually impressed by the company’s innovative approach to catalytic development that has shaped cityscapes across the region and beyond,” Dawson said in the release. 

Last June, Hoffman expanded into two new markets: Charlotte, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia.

“As we were nearing the end of The Wharf, we were looking for what the next invention of the company would be,” Shawn Seaman, president of Hoffman & Associates, told Multifamily Dive last year. “And we decided to look outside the market.”

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