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Eric Jakimier has spent the past eight years specifically concentrating on student housing, both university-owned and privately-owned, for the largest student living developers in the country. He has been responsible for everything from site selection and acquisition, through site due-diligence, design consultant management, lender contract negotiation and negotiations with governmental agencies to construction management and project turnover including project accounting and reporting to investors and other interested parties.
In late 2002 he had the opportunity to join JPI’s On‐Campus Student Living team developing projects for Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia State University, North Carolina State University, University of Pennsylvania – California, Clark University in Atlanta and University of Louisiana – Monroe. Mr. Jakimier was also involved with an Off‐Campus student living development in Gainesville, Florida and luxury apartments in downtown Dallas. Following his work with JPI, Mr. Jakimier moved to Place Properties to manage their development team west of the Mississippi River and was involved in both privately owned military and student housing developments in Texas, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and California. Primary among these was an adaptive reuse of a historic building in Chicago. Mr. Jakimier was successful in getting the building listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings which generated substantial project funds from syndication of the tax credits. Mr. Jakimier joined JLB Partners as Vice‐President of Development for the Student Living division. During his tenure at JLB Mr. Jakimier pursued projects in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland and New Hampshire. In February 2009 Mr. Jakimier closed one of the very few new construction multifamily deals in the country in the past year, a $44M development in Tempe, Arizona near Arizona State University. Mr. Jakimier was able to rezone and replat the property, manage the design team which produced a 700+ sheet set of drawings, obtain full building permits and close the financing in just over six months which allowed the project to begin a year ahead of the anticipated schedule.
Prior to developing student housing properties Mr. Jakimier created housing at both ends of the spectrum: both luxury apartments and project-based Section 8/Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing for homeless individuals. One of these, a development for HIV+ homeless individuals, had eleven sources of financing and twenty-two different agencies involved.
Mr. Jakimier is also a licensed architect in the State of Texas.