Speaker Spotlight

Jon Dennis 

Urban Street Group

Jon Dennis brings 19 years of real estate development, acquisitions and asset management experience with public REITs, private developers and educational institutions to UrbanStreet Group. He is currently leading the 225-acre mixed use redevelopment of the former Motorola Campus in Schaumburg as well as multifamily projects throughout the Chicago suburbs for the company. He previously worked with the Georgetown Company and the University of Chicago, where he oversaw a large master-planned redevelopment effort surrounding the Hyde Park Campus that created new office, hotel, and retail projects. Jonathan holds a master’s degree in Real Estate Development and Finance from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northwestern University.

Matthew Nix 

Reva Development Partners, LLC

Matt Nix has more than 20 years of experience in real estate development. He specializes in residential development, primarily apartments, condominiums and townhomes, and has directed a broad range of projects, including large-scale, mixed-use suburban town centers, investment-quality, multi-family communities and small-scale, urban, multi-family and adaptive re-use residences.

Nix formed REVA Development Partners with Warren James in 2012 with the purpose of developing ground-up institutional quality residential projects in suburban in-fill and transit-oriented locations. Since 2012, REVA has more than 1,500 units completed or under development.

Prior to forming REVA, Nix led the residential development group for Opus North, where he served as vice president for real estate development. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing site selection, zoning, design, financing, project management, sales and property management of more than $200 million in development activity.

Before joining Opus North, Nix worked for Lincoln Property Company, where he was involved in the development of more than 2,500 apartment units throughout the Midwest. He began with Lincoln as a development associate and rose to the position of vice president of development, with responsibility for all facets of the development process. In this capacity, he worked closely with a number of construction lenders and investment partners, including major pension funds, life insurance companies and REITs.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College and a master’s degree in business from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Nix lives in River Forest, Illinois, with his wife and three sons.