Investment Matters: Forging Development Success

June 11, 2024

Podcasts Development Investment National

Paul Rosta talks with Gina Baker Chamber of MCB Real Estate about creating economically sound, environmentally sustainable projects that serve the community.

When you’re developing a high-profile, high-stakes project, how do you balance all the complex priorities? That’s the challenge that MCB Real Estate is taking on with Baltimore’s Harborplace, one of the nation’s most prominent current redevelopments of an urban waterfront.

Gina Baker Chambers leads MCB Real Estate in tackling challenging projects. Image courtesy of MCB Real Estate

In this episode of Investment Matters, you’ll meet MCB’s president, Gina Baker Chambers. She takes us inside the company’s mission to create projects that are not only economically and environmentally sound but serve the community’s needs.

Another example: Yard 56, the reinvention of a 20-acre contaminated site in Baltimore as a vibrant mixed-use project. The connecting thread, she points out, is identifying a need and then devising a plan in concert with the community.

Yet fulfilling this mission calls for a special level of commitment. As Baker Chambers puts it, “You have to have faith, you have to be creative, you have to have a certain amount of tolerance for pain, and really good lawyers.”

Baker Chambers is no stranger to major challenges. Fifteen years ago, she was one of the original team members at Artemis Real Estate Partners, where she played a key role in raising the firm’s first fund during the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. The insights into investment she gained from that experience continue to resonate in today’s climate. Take a listen.

Episode highlights: