Fourteen people, one office, a short drive from everything we have built.
Averline was started in 2009 by an architect and a banker who kept meeting at the same zoning hearings. Our first project was a four-unit rowhouse on a lot the city had written off. We still own it.
- 11
- projects completed since 2009
- 1,240
- homes built or under construction
- 412,000
- square feet of shops and workplaces
- 9
- buildings we own and manage today
Where we come from
Nadia Okafor spent twelve years designing schools and libraries before she decided she wanted a say in what got built, not only how. Thomas Brennan financed other people's subdivisions and wanted to build something he would walk past.
The firm has grown slowly. We have finished eleven projects and sold two. The rest we manage ourselves from an office in the Warehouse District, upstairs from a bakery that was our first retail tenant.
Who you will deal with
Nadia Okafor
Founding partner, design and development
Architect. Leads site selection and design on every project.
Thomas Brennan
Founding partner, finance
Arranges debt and equity and sits on the investment committee.
Renee Castellanos
Director of construction
Twenty years as a general contractor before joining in 2016.
Marcus Whitfield
Director of property management
Runs leasing, maintenance and tenant relations for the portfolio.
Priya Raman
Development manager
Manages entitlement and community engagement for new projects.
Daniel Hoffman
Controller
Looks after project accounting and investor reporting.
What we hold ourselves to
Say the date, then keep it
We publish construction schedules and tell neighbors when they slip.
Local hands
More than seventy percent of our construction spending goes to firms based in North Carolina.
Room for small shops
Every mixed-use project sets aside ground-floor space sized and priced for independent businesses.
Have a site, a space need or a question?
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