Finding Success in the Development of Workforce Housing with Scott Choppin – Ep. 45 - a podcast by Matthew Loos, P.E.

placemakingpodcast@gmail.comFacebook-fTwitterLinkedinInstagramFinding Success in the Development of Workforce Housing with Scott Choppin – Ep. 45About the Guest
I am extremely excited to share this next conversation with all of you. There is tons of gold in this episode, I can promise you that. Scott Choppin is the Founder of the Urban Pacific Group of Companies. Scott oversees all operations of the Urban Pacific family of companies, including business development, capital acquisition, and strategic planning. Prior to forming Urban Pacific, Scott was Director of Land Acquisition for the Multi-Family Development Division of Irvine-based Sares-Regis Group. In that position, he was responsible for all land acquisition activities for the development of luxury, market rate and senior rental communities throughout California, Colorado, and Arizona. Before joining Sares-Regis, Scott was with Kaufman and Broad Multi-Housing Group. As Senior Project Manager, he was responsible for all activities related to multifamily development, including the acquisition, entitlement, syndication and development of over 1,900 affordable multifamily units throughout the Western United States. Prior to that, Scott was a project manager with Irvine-based Snyder Langston Real Estate and Construction Services. Needless to say, Scott has tons of practical experience in the real estate development field.For over 50 years, Urban Pacific and it's founding family have been developers of premier residential and commercial projects. Including development of the Long Beach World Trade Center, and the Axis at Westminster project, Urban Pacific and the Choppin family have built superior identities of trust, value, authority, and leadership in the real estate development domain throughout the nation.
In this episode, we are going to discuss founding Urban Pacific, the attributes of successful developments and how they can impact the surrounding neighborhoods and towns, and how developers can potentially make the leap from working with a firm to owning their own development firm. There is loads of great information in this episode and I greatly appreciated Scott for taking the time out of his extremely busy schedule to discuss this topic of workforce housing development with me. As always, if you have enjoyed the show, please subscribe to the show and share it with your friends in the industry. There will be more exciting conversations on the shows to come.Main Take-Away’s From This Show
This was another interesting episode to record. I thoroughly enjoyed Scott candidly sharing his story behind founding Urban Pacific and the various revelations he came across on his journey. This was a really interesting look at not only the economic benefits of workforce housing but the potential societal impacts that such developments bring to the surrounding communities. There were so many great talking points that Scott shared throughout the discussion, so it is hard to just pick three for my main take-away’s this week. The following main topics of the show come from an understanding of workforce housing and real estate development that Scott possesses.1. If you want to launch into your own real estate development firm, it might be best to work for a firm and build a large network before doing so.
2. There are many traits that make Workforce Housing desirable for development.3. Building Trust is absolutely necessary in the Real Estate Development Industry.
As always, I will dig into each of these “take-away’s” every week on the blog. So, without further a due, here we go!If you want to launch into your own real estate development firm, it might be best to work for a firm and build a large network before doing so.As mentioned previously,

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