President

J.R. Berger

J.R. Berger, President of Magellan Development Group LLC, leads Magellan’s development, asset management, property management and construction departments.  He is integral to the planning and execution of Magellan’s corporate strategy, along with spearheading the growth of Magellan’s hospitality business.   J.R. is heavily involved in the capital raising, financial structuring, design, entitlement, construction, marketing, and sales of Magellan’s projects across the country, and he sits on Magellan’s Board of Directors and Investment Committee.

J.R. is a member of the Urban Land Institute and is on the Urban Development / Mixed-Use Gold Council.  In addition, J.R. is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, is on the Midwest’s Next Generation Board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Ben Gurion Society Advisory Council of the Jewish United Fund of Chicago and is on the founding board of a currently in-development high school in Chicago. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University.