CREATING TRANSFORMATIVE COMMUNITIES
WHO WE ARE
Founded in 2001, Green Street Properties is an Atlanta-based real estate development and consulting firm focused on creating urban infill, mixed-use properties with catalytic impact. As an independent firm and also previously as a division of Jamestown, Green Street and its principal, Katharine Kelley, have led more than $2 billion in development and consulting projects spanning eight states. Green Street is grounded in the belief that great cities and great developments stand the test of time. They are connected, sustainable, inclusive and lovable, and financially prosperous for their stakeholders. They bring out the best in people.
High Performance
Track Record
24+ Year
Company History
Over $2Bn of
Development Across
Multiple Product
Types and Markets
Developments
Consistently
Perform Among
Market Leaders
Repeated National Recognition for
Product Innovation
and Excellence
DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE ACROSS
A DIVERSE MIX OF USES
5,500
MULTIFAMILY & CONDO UNITS
800,000
SF OFFICE
500,000
SF RETAIL
HOW WE EXECUTE
We call our approach "Urban Acupuncture."
01.
Crafting well-designed mixed-use communities in highly desirable historic neighborhoods
02.
Appealing to urban customers with active lifestyle needs
03.
Connecting with existing amenity bases and collaborating with local neighborhoods
04.
Transforming surrounding communities
WHAT WE DO
Mixed Used
Development
Master Development
and Street Design
Multifamily
Development
Team Leadership
and Selection
Repositioning and Creative Problem Solving
Adaptive
Reuse
Zoning and
Entitlements
Due Diligence
Services
GREEN STREET'S PRINCIPAL
Katharine Kelley is the President of Green Street Properties and leads all development and consulting activities for the firm. Previously she served as Executive Vice President of Development for Newport, leading the redevelopment of South Downtown, Atlanta. Prior to Newport, Katharine was Managing Director, Development & Construction for Jamestown, overseeing the development and repositioning of Jamestown’s opportunistic investments in over 25 projects across a seven-state platform.
With over 30 years of experience in urban infill, mixed-use and residential development, Katharine has led the development of more than $2 billion of properties while serving in senior positions at Jamestown, Post Properties, Newport and Green Street Properties. She has received repeated national recognition for creative, catalytic development and product innovation with consistently high-performing projects. Her work includes Atlanta major mixed-use projects such as Ponce City Market, South Downtown, Post Riverside, and Glenwood Park, as well as neighborhood infill properties such as the renovation of the historic Manuel’s Tavern.
Katharine received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University. She serves on the Board of Directors of Invesco Mortgage Capital, Inc. (NYSE: IVR) and is a Trustee and immediate past Chair of the Board of The Westminster Schools. Katharine previously served as President and Board member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta, and Advisory Board member of the UNC Johnston Honors Program. She is a 2023 recipient of the Atlanta ULI ChangeMakers Award. Katharine and her husband Chad live in Atlanta and have three children.
CURRENT PROJECTS
THE KING CENTER — ATLANTA, GA
Redevelopment of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and its 2.6-acre Auburn Ave. campus. Green Street is performing program management services which currently include predevelopment, entitlements, and strategic planning for a new visitor center and conference facility honoring the globally top-researched Nobel Prize winner. Services also include collaboration with adjacent property owners re-envisioning the entire 15-acre King District visitor experience.
PARMER DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO
ADVISORY SERVICES — AUBURN, AL
Residential and small-scale, mixed-use properties in Auburn and Opelika, Alabama, including cottages and townhouses, neighborhood commercial, and adaptive reuse properties. Green Street is providing advisory services to owner/developer Parmer Development, LLC for its development portfolio. Services include project management support, due diligence and environmental coordination, retail predevelopment, and development consultation. Properties range from predevelopment stage through recent completion.
previous PROJECTS
Ponce City Market — Atlanta, GA
A $350M, 1.1M sf (Phase I) mixed use, adaptive reuse development, including a mix of 560K sf Class A loft office, 330K sf creative retail, 259 rental flats, rooftop recreation, and Beltline connectivity. Green Street, then a division of Jamestown, was involved with the development process from acquisition and entitlements through construction and lease up. Ponce City Market is one of the largest and most significant adaptive reuse projects in the nation, procuring $50M of historic tax credits while also earning LEED Gold certification. In 2016 the project was one of 11 recipients of ULI’s Global Awards of Excellence, and in 2014, Travel + Leisure ranked Ponce City Market among its list of “The World’s Coolest New Tourist Attractions”. poncecitymarket.com
glenwood park — atlanta, ga
A $150M, 28-acre mixed use development, including 50K sf of street retail, 20K sf of office condominiums, and over 350 single family, townhouse and residential condominium units on a former brownfield site. Glenwood Park has been recognized nationally and internationally for leadership innovation in walkable, sustainable development through such media as ABC World News Tonight, CNN, NPR, and The New York Times, even years after its completion. Green Street managed the entire development process from project conception through master land development, to vertical development of the project’s condo, retail, and townhouse components. glenwoodpark.com
MANUEL'S TAVERn — ATLANTA, GA
Refurbishment of the iconic Manuel’s Tavern on a prominent corner in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. The Maloof family, longtime owners of this Atlanta landmark tavern, engaged Green Street Properties for the project. Green Street refurbished the 10,000 sf, 60-year old retail building with partner Selig Enterprises. The project received a 2019 Excellence in Preservation Award from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. “Few places in Atlanta are more authentic than Manuel’s- a stomping ground of presidents, governors, mayors, writers, activists, policemen, and misfits.” — Atlanta Business Chronicle, March 5, 2015.
Riverview landinG — cobb county, ga
An 82-acre, mixed-use development along the Chattahoochee River. Then a division of Jamestown, Green Street and partner Marthasville Development assembled and entitled over 25 parcels of industrial property into a mix of over 1,000 multifamily and single-family residences with retail and riverfront amenity spaces. Green Street’s entitlement of 1,000 multifamily rental units was the first rental unit zoning approved by that county in over 14 years. Green Street repositioned this blighted property with new streetscape improvements and a 2-mile linear River park- featuring greenway trails, ponds, a river dock, recreational fields, and organic farming- leading to Jamestown’s resale of the property for vertical development.
TRIBUTARY — BIRMINGHAM, AL
111-acre mixed use development adjacent to historic Mountain Brook neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama. Green Street provided master development consulting services to owner Novare Group in its redevelopment of the property. Components include 286 multifamily rental units, 170 active adult rental units, 25 single family residences, and the repositioning of an existing 420,000 sf office building. Green Street’s consulting focus included master planning and civil infrastructure, component land sales, master CCR’s, office repositioning, and development of 3 miles of onsite wooded trails and landscape amenities.
RIVERSIDE BY POST (NOW MAA RIVERSIDE)— ATLANTA, GA
A $120M, 85-acre mixed-use development, including a mix of 532 multifamily rental units, a 225K sf Class A office building, and 25K sf of main street retail space. While working at Post Properties, Katharine led the development of Riverside by Post, engaging internationally recognized master planner Andres Duany. The project won national acclaim for pioneering new street design standards and multifamily building forms and is credited with bringing New Urbanism to Atlanta. Upon its completion, Riverside by Post achieved the highest rents in the company portfolio.
POST PARKSIDE — ATLANTA, GA
A 188-unit multifamily rental property with 9,000 sf of street retail. While working at Post Properties, Katharine led the development of this 2.3-acre infill property located in the heart of Midtown, Atlanta, overlooking Atlanta’s beloved Piedmont Park. Post Parkside was recognized for its rethinking of the traditional gated apartment community, featuring connectivity to a thriving urban streetscape, a city park, bikeways, transit and historic neighborhoods.
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