Leadership

Lisa Slanker

President

A leader in the commercial real estate industry with extensive experience in construction project and property management for retail, mixed use centers and industrial buildings.

She has proven abilities in time management, organization, and needs analysis. Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Equally effective working independently or as part of a team. Reliable, responsive professional with strong, positive work ethic.

Prior to founding Blackstone, Lisa managed a nearly 5 million square foot industrial portfolio, consisting of 36 buildings throughout Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Previously, she provided effective third party management of another regional industrial portfolio of 5.2 million square feet comprised of 30 buildings. Responsible for budgets, financial reporting and management of capital projects from maintenance thorough build-to-suits. Worked effectively in tandem with asset management, lease administration and accounting.

As Director of Property Management for a national real estate developer, she was responsible for the on-going operation, construction operations and management of multiple existing and newly developed upscale retail strip, lifestyle and mixed-use retail projects, in excess of 1.75 million square feet. Provided operational direction during the development of a town center project in Basalt, Colorado, including building plan reviews, income and expense projections and implementation of key operating procedures of the twelve block ground up project consisting of 250,000 square feet of retail, office, entertainment and 400 condominium units.