Real Estate Forum - April 2012

Florida and Iowa. Seven years after his first kidney transplant, Paul co-founded EagleBank; today a major regional commercial real estate and small business lender with more than $3 billion in assets. He’s also chairman of private venture capital fund Bethesda Investments Inc. Last year, Washingtonian magazine named him a Washingtonian of the Year. Paul, who follows Winston Churchill’s motto, “You make a living by what you earn. You make a life by what you give,” is active in charitable work close to his heart. A past chairman of the National Kidney Foundation, he’s raised over $3 million for kidney disease research and therapies over the past 25 years.

MILTON V. PETERSON

Over the past 30 years, Milt Peterson, founder, principal and chair-
man of Peterson Cos., has overseen the growth of the family com-
pany that has spearheaded many significant real estate projects in
Virginia and Maryland. The full-spectrum firm has developed,
acquired, managed and leased more than 24,000 residential lots and
some 34 million feet of retail, hotel
and office space, and has a hefty
pipeline for potential development,
with 2,000 acres at two-dozen loca-
tions in Virginia and Maryland. The
company’s latest signature property
under way is National Harbor,
located on 350 acres of shoreline in
Prince George’s County, MD that
could at full build-out contain 10
million square feet of hotel, conven-
tion, retail, entertainment, dining
and office space.

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ROBERT M. PINKARD

After nearly three decades of leading DC real estate powerhouse Cassidy & Pinkard, Bob Pinkard started all over again in 2009 by forming the Pinkard Group. Pinkard, principal of the Bethesda, MD-based firm, was the co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Cassidy & Pinkard and managing member of its investment portfolio. Today, the Pinkard Group’s focus has been on offering a platform to global real estate investors interested in Washington, DC that taps the company’s deep market knowledge and extensive relationships. The firm garnered headlines recently when it announced two ventures with local developer Buchanan Partners—a retail and multifamily project in Alexandria, VA and the formation, along with Boston-based Great Point Investors, of a residential land investment fund.

LINDA RABBITT

A pioneer in the industry, Linda Rabbitt formed Rand Construction Corp. of Alexandria, VA in 1989 after having co-founded Washington’s first 100% woman-owned commercial tenant builder, Hart Construction Co. Inc. Rand, which Rabbitt leads as owner and CEO, started as a small firm in Arlington with seven employees and has grown into one of the largest construction companies in the nation, with annual revenues that exceed $280 million. Rabbitt’s numer-