Reinaldo Padron
Eighteen years in real estate development, spent across the whole cycle rather than one part of it. The site, the capital, the approvals, the design, and the build have each been my responsibility at some point.
Based in Miami
18 years
In development, capital, and operations
$44M
Largest development co-sponsored, won on a public RFP
262 acres
Land consortium restructured through a national crisis
20+
Consultants and contractors directed on a project
Find the thesis, source the site, and get the first deal through approval.
Build the model, write the offering memorandum, present to investors and public boards, and close the equity.
Hire and direct the consultants and trades, hold the budget, and deliver.
Leave behind a process the team can run without me.
I lead complex projects from acquisition through delivery, combining finance, permitting, construction, and technology to make them work.
Most of my work has been in regulated, capital-intensive industries, where a missed approval or a broken assumption costs months rather than hours.
I have run institutional master planning, mixed-use urban development, private capital formation, and AI-powered automation for engineering and underwriting. The through-line is the same: find where the process actually breaks, then rebuild it so it holds under pressure.
Where I've operated
Each one began as something unresolved — a site with the wrong zoning, an RFP nobody had won, a portfolio in default.
125 units + 8,000 SF retail · Lake Worth, FL
Co-Sponsor & Development Lead
Started from
A public RFP nobody had won yet.
Co-sponsored a $44M mixed-use development and led the public RFP process that won it. Turned down at the first hearing, then approved at the second. Sourced the capital partner who led the $13.5M equity raise, and worked the joint venture structure.
2.4-acre site · Lake Worth, FL
Sponsor & Entitlement Lead
Started from
A 2.4-acre site with the wrong zoning.
Directed the first Live Local Act entitlement play in the city, raised $2.4M for the acquisition, and executed the PSA to an affordable housing developer before groundbreaking.
17 studios + retail bay · Little Havana, Miami
Sponsor & Development Lead
Started from
An entitled lot with a plan that didn't pencil.
Raised $1.4M, reworked the unit plan for yield-on-cost, and built the local brand. In final construction and running ahead of the original pro forma.
262-acre consortium · Caracas, Venezuela
Real Estate Development Manager
Started from
$12.4M in liabilities and a national economic collapse.
Restructured the liabilities through asset disposition and debt negotiation, redesigned 108 acres of mixed-use, and negotiated interest exoneration with institutional lenders.
Deco Green was turned down at its first public hearing. I spent the weeks after that knocking on doors across Lake Worth, explaining the project to business owners one at a time. We came back to the second hearing with the residents behind us, and it passed.
Most of this work is making the case — to investors, to a municipal board, to a room of people who have every reason to say no.
On Urbano and Cafecito Living I built the models, wrote the OMs, and presented to private investors. We closed $3.8M across the two.
On Deco Green I brought in the partner who led the $13.5M raise.
Each of these came out of a job I was doing by hand and didn't want to keep doing by hand. All four are live and in use.
An underwriting engine that turns an OM, a set of plans, and a GC bid into an investment memo, an 8-tab Excel model, and a lender package in under ten minutes.
Inside DealReadyReads architectural plans, extracts metadata, cross-references NFPA 72 and the Florida Building Code, and generates compliant bills of materials and engineering summaries.
Available on requestBuilds the offering memorandum for a property going to market, for sale or for lease — asset data, comps, and positioning assembled into a marketing-ready document instead of a week in InDesign.
Internal toolSearches City of Miami permit records once a week on its own and reports back on the permits I follow — what moved, what is about to expire, and anything sitting on a contractor hold. It replaced a Monday morning of clicking through the portal one record at a time.
Internal toolDeal and capital, entitlement, lease-up, and internal systems — or send me a live deal and I'll underwrite it in ten minutes, no cost.
If you're working on something hard in the physical world — a development, a new platform, a portfolio that needs structure — I'd like to hear about it.