Casimer Kawecki

MBA, Carnegie Mellon University;
M.Arch, University of Virginia;
BA Economics, University of Colorado

Lecturer

Cass Kawecki is a real estate development and sales practitioner, and currently serves as a vice president for brokerage services for the Charlottesville office of CB Richard Ellis, an affiliate of the largest commercial real estate services firm in the world. Mr. Kawecki’s university research and teaching experience covers the topics of real estate development, marketing, finance, urban redevelopment, sustainability, investment modeling, and design economics. His teaching methods emphasize the value of interdisciplinary exchange, real world engagement, and community participation.

Mr. Kawecki’s commercial real estate career is both broad and deep, having participated in the closing of over $200 million in property transactions comprised of a wide variety of property types. Mr. Kawecki’s career started with an internship in 1996 for the U.S. Green Building Council. After going on to earn graduate degrees in both architecture and business administration, Mr. Kawecki was offered a special appointment to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh to oversee select public private partnerships and brownfield developments. Mr. Kawecki was responsible for securing $3.2 million in state grants for the South Side Works, a nationally renowned re-development of a former steel mill site into a thriving 34-acre mixed-use urban lifestyle center.

In 2004, Mr. Kawecki joined the CB Richard Ellis Private Client Group to oversee Pittsburgh operations, focusing on marketing and dispositions of income producing investment property to a pool of national investors. Mr. Kawecki moved to back to Charlottesville in 2006 to handle the marketing and commercial sales efforts for a mixed-use developer; launching the marketing and public relations campaign for Belvedere, the first neighborhood in Central Virginia to qualify for the LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot program.

Through his real estate career Mr. Kawecki has continued to participate in academia. He initiated, raised the funds for, and taught a graduate level real estate course at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Kawecki has participated in nationally funded university research on investments in sustainability and served as a board member for the Re-making Cities Institute. Mr. Kawecki has been an adjunct lecturer for University of Virginia Department of Urban and Environmental Planning since 2008.