Profile
Justin is a Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) market expert, with 11 years of experience in commercial real estate leasing and sales. As former Associate Director of Economic Development for the Downtown Center Business Improvement District and Central City Association and currently as Vice President of brokerage at Kennedy Wilson, Justin’s passion for a better DTLA is exemplified in his deep knowledge of the area’s history, strong relationships with local stakeholders, and track record of transactional success.
Accomplishments
During his five-year tenure at the DCBID, Justin successfully recruited hundreds of retailers, developers, hotels, office tenants and residents to DTLA, while playing an active role in laying the political groundwork for DTLA’s renaissance. Notable recruits whose presence led to the explosion of growth seen in DTLA today include: City Target, Bottega Louie, Urth Caffé, and The Ace Hotel.
Justin joined Kennedy Wilson in 2014 to spearhead its commercial brokerage platform in Downtown Los Angeles and is currently recognized as one of the area’s leading brokers. In that time, he and his partner, Lee Shapiro, have successfully completed over 590,000 square feet of retail, mixed-use, adaptive reuse, and creative office space transactions in DTLA. Given his boots-on-the-ground market expertise, Justin has also been engaged to represent numerous notable office tenants.
In 2019 and 2020, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Justin one of L.A.’s 500 Most Influential People.
Affiliations
Justin has been involved and taken leadership roles in multiple real estate/networking organizations, community boards and charitable organizations, including:
Bringing Back Broadway (Planning and Marketing & Economic Development Committees)
Chrysalis (Volunteer)
International Council of Shopping Centers
Jewish Federation Real Estate & Construction Division (Cabinet Member)
LaunchDTLA (Founder)
Pershing Square Advisory Board
Real Estate Networking Event (Partner)
Urban Land Institute (Young Leader)
Weingart Center (Young Partner)
Weingart Center Corporation (Board Member)
Education
Bachelor of Political Science degree, UCLA
Select Clients
Atlas Capital
Berkshire Group
Bolour Associates
Broadway Investment Group
CIM Group
Essex Property Trust
Force-Aryeh, LLC
GID
Gilmore Associates
Greystar
ICO Development
Korean Airlines
Lennar
Neighborhood Effort
Oakwood
Oceanwide Holdings
Onni
OUE
Rising Realty Partners
Shomof Group
Skid Row Housing Trust
Tarina Tarantino Management
Spaceland Presents
The Carlyle Group
The Wolff Company
Wood Partners
U.S. Bank
UDR
Windsor