Garden Street Communities (GSC) is seeking an entrepreneurial-minded candidate for the role of Director of Land Acquisition and Development covering the Wilmington, North Carolina Region. The purpose of the role is to develop profitable, quality communities.

The position is a hands-on role that requires you to find and purchase land and manage the entire land development cycle, including: sourcing land, assembling professional teams (surveyors, engineers, Geotech, environmental) entitling the land, managing design and permitting, managing construction to deliver final platted lots.

This role is different.

You have the opportunity to manage the entire life cycle of residential real estate development. The Development Manager for Garden Street is truly a business within a business due to a salary and bonus compensation structure.

Our company is different.

We keep it simple and provide managers the high degree of flexibility and autonomy needed to build a business, without a strenuous corporate structure. The more effective you are, the more you will earn.

You can be well rewarded if you have the following traits:

• Willingness to stick with it over the long-term
• Unrelenting persistence;
• A self-starter willing and able to work autonomously
• Results oriented with a focus to deliver profitable, quality communities
• Know how to source land for acquisition and familiar with real estate deal structure
• Know how to manage the process to deliver final platted lots
• Experience presenting your project at rezoning/plat hearings with zoning boards and County commissions/City Councils.
• Know how to assemble proformas and valuation packages for administrative personnel to underwrite

The ideal candidate should demonstrate the following:

• Persistence, persistence, persistence.
• Acquisition Experience: finding, underwriting, and acquiring residential land.
• Entitlement Experience, rezoning, platting, permitting, construction management, and project closeout.
• Site Development Experience: managing site contractors, overseeing budgets and schedules, hard-scape, and landscape installations.
• Knowledge of land costs, finished lot costs, and site development costs within the greater Wilmington market.
• Contacts within the Wilmington area including brokers, site contractors, and engineers (consultants).
• Must know how to use Excel spreadsheets (the basics).
• Must be able to use online GIS tools (eg. property appraiser; county GIS mapper) to quickly review land characteristics including zoning, future land use, floodplain, wetlands, utilities etc.

Garden Street Communities is one of the largest, privately held, residential real estate development companies developing in 7 different states, primarily covering the Southeast, and is headquartered in Pensacola Florida.

Garden Street Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or religious perspective.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Residential Land Development: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Wilmington, NC: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person