John McNellis

John McNellis is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Hastings College of The Law, cofounding McNellis Partners in 1982. He is also the author of Making It in Real Estate, published by ULI.

ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: ULI full member John McNellis considers how real estate professionals have survived financial winters of the past and present.
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ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Owning retail space has been challenging since the Great Recession. You likely know the reasons why: overbuilding, the internet, rapacious private equity, too many lackluster tenants. You also know that every move you make—every breath you take—is recorded by your mobile phone. This latter circumstance has allowed a clever company to develop possibly the most useful tool for commercial real estate since Hewlett Packard introduced the HP-12C financial calculator in 1981.
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A retail developer and ULI longtime leader shares how his firm is approaching the current shutdown in the United States and beyond.
Young professionals in real estate often hear expressions—some slang, others simply arcane—that neither the finest education nor the thickest dictionary is likely to illuminate. ULI Foundation Governor John McNellis translates some of the most common terms.
In an opinion piece for Urban Land Online, ULI Foundation Governor and developer John McNellis argues that mandating mixed use is not the best way to incentivize development.
In an opinion piece for Urban Land, ULI Foundation Governor and developer John McNellis argues that the lack of affordable housing in places like California’s Palo Alto hinders one of America’s fastest growing job markets.
California-based developer John McNellis shares his firm’s real-world experience using solar power on a mixed-use project in Palo Alto.
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