Chief Development Officer at Redstone Development Partners. Founder of J.B. Earl Company. Formerly with Blackfish, ICO – Ivory Commercial, Phillips Edison & Company, and the Alpine Homes / Geonerco family of builders. Built on sourcing before the market, negotiating through holdouts, and navigating entitlements most developers would walk away from.
Redstone Development Partners is a vertically integrated real estate firm with a platform that spans residential development, student housing, hospitality conversions, and LIHTC. As CDO, my job is to source deals, structure JVs, run entitlements, and keep the capital stack intact from dirt through stabilization.
Across my career and at Redstone, I have led or co-led 17 named projects with a combined projected value north of $1.5 billion. The work spans Utah, New York, Nevada, and Idaho, covering ground-up multifamily, mixed-use, hotel-to-apartment conversions, LIHTC, and transit-oriented development.
Chief Development Officer
Leading development for a vertically integrated platform across multifamily, student housing, hotel-to-apartment conversions, and LIHTC. Active projects in Utah and New York. Responsible for sourcing, JV structuring, entitlements, and capital stack oversight from site acquisition through stabilization.
Founder & Principal
Independent development and real estate advisory firm (jbearlco.com). As founder and principal I sourced, underwrote, entitled, and partnered on ground-up multifamily, mixed-use, hotel-to-apartment conversion, and Brownfields redevelopment projects across Utah and New York. Much of the project track record you see on the Projects page — Rails on Main, The Grid, The Riv, The Elli, Haven 100, River's Edge, Station at Mill Race, and others — was sourced, negotiated, or led during this era, including JV formations with landowners, NIMBY-lawsuit defense, and Brownfields Cleanup Program entries. The firm also offered development advisory and consulting alongside direct-principal work.
Role and dates — send me bullets and I'll fold them in.
At Blackfish I worked across real estate capital, sourcing, and deal structuring. The role sharpened my instincts for how capital partners underwrite, what they price risk at, and where sponsor economics actually come from, knowledge I now bring to every Redstone deal and to private coaching clients.
Role and dates — send me bullets and I'll fold them in.
ICO – Ivory Commercial is the commercial arm of the Ivory family of real estate companies, one of Utah's most active and longest-tenured developers. My work at ICO included flex industrial and office development in Park City and the greater Utah market, including the ICO Park City Business Center project within the Synergy Commons portfolio. The role built my relationships across Utah's commercial and industrial real estate community.
Role and dates — send me bullets and I'll fold them in.
Phillips Edison & Company (NASDAQ: PECO) is one of the largest owners and operators of grocery-anchored shopping centers in the United States. My time at Phillips Edison gave me exposure to institutional-scale asset management, retail fundamentals, and public-market reporting discipline, all of which inform how I approach capital stacks and operating assumptions today.
Head of Land Acquisition and Development
Led Alpine Homes' land acquisition and development departments in Northern Utah, sourcing, acquiring, and developing single-family home subdivisions. Alpine was consistently a top performer inside the Geonerco family of home builders, a multi-market platform operating across Denver, Utah, Oregon, Seattle, and Vancouver. This is where I learned how many deals die between entitlement and vertical construction, and how to protect a development schedule from the city friction that kills most projects.
A career in real estate development is measured in buildings, not in bullet points. The Projects page lists 17 named projects with a combined projected value over $1.5 billion, spanning Utah, New York, Nevada, and Idaho. Some are stabilized and operating today. Others are still moving through entitlement. Every one of them has been sourced, underwritten, structured, and navigated through approval.