Real Estate Development
Faculty

Ava J. Abramowitz
A teacher of negotiations at the George Washington University Law School, Ava J. Abramowitz serves as a mediator. Formerly AIA deputy general counsel and vice president of Schinnerer & Company, Inc., Abramowitz is the author of The Architect’s Essentials of Contract Negotiation. She is a founding fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, where she now serves on its Board of Governors. Previously she was a member of the Governing Committee of the ABA’s Forum on the Construction Industry and on the National Architectural Accrediting Board. Abramowitz lectures nationwide on negotiation and assertive practice.

David K. Bowersox, Esq.
Bowersox practices law as a partner with the firm of Hoffman, Comfort, Offutt & Scott, LLP. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Maryland School of Law, Bowersox has concentrated his practice in zoning, planning and land use regulation for more than 20 years. He is a member of the Carroll County Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association and the American Bar Association (Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law). Bowersox has handled hundreds of cases involving land use law issues, including Harrison v. Schwartz (1990), Carroll County v. Zent (1991) and High Ridge Association, Inc. v. County Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland (1995). He is the author of "The Public Use Limitation in Eminent Domain: Poor Relation to the Constitution’s Poor Relation," scheduled for publication in Current Condemnation Issues, Vol. II, by the ABA’s Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law in Spring 2006. Bowersox has served as a faculty member for the Maryland Institute for the Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL) and the Land Use Institute and Advanced Real Property Institute.

Julius Levine, FAICP 
Julie Levine is a professor for the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America. Professor Levine was appointed to the faculty in 1964, receiving tenure in 1977. Levine focuses on the social, economic and built-environment at the neighborhood, urban and regional scale, working with private citizens, nonprofits, institutions, government and private groups on housing, commercial, retail, health and educational enterprises. He is a founding principal in Gladstone Associates, a national economic/planning consulting firm with selective foreign engagements. He also serves as an economic/planning adviser to the Jerusalem Renewal Authority. Collaborating with Moshe Safdie and other professionals, Levine helped the Mamilla area of Jerusalem become a thriving, pivotal link between the city’s venerated, ancient enclave and the contemporary city beyond. Levine’s work on this project extended for more than 25 years until the renewal plan was completed. Levine is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He received his liberal arts/science degree from Brooklyn College, a B.S.C.E. from City College of New York, and his master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Judith A. Meany, Ph.D., AICP
Judith Meany is director of the Real Estate Development concentration and an adjunct associate professor of urban planning in the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America. She is the managing partner of Lozier Partners, a real estate developer focusing on urban infill projects and has extensive experience as a land use and real estate acquisition adviser to private sector developers and investors with over $300 million in closed real estate transactions. Her international urban development experience includes a year as a Fulbright Teaching Scholar in Albania where she secured funding for a Democracy Grant to the Polytechnic University for architecture/urban planning students to attend the 1996 U.N. Habitat Conference. She has completed various international consulting assignments in Eastern Europe, including consultation to the World Bank; lectured at the Institute for Public Private Partnerships; and produced a cable TV show that aired in Virginia on growth and development issues. Meany holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and an M.C.R.P. from The Catholic University of America.

Douglas Peterson
Douglas Peterson is executive director of The Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing. Through creative financing, joint venture partnerships and alliances with private real estate development projects, he has been a leader in retaining affordable housing units as Arlington County, Va., experiences redevelopment growth. He has more than 15 years of hand-on experience with affordable housing issues. Peterson has been involved in several creative infill residential projects in a very urban environment using multiple funding sources while utilizing the latest in green building techniques and LEED technologies. Peterson serves on the Virginia Housing Development Authority Multi-family Advisory Board, as well as the Arlington County Affordable Housing Round Table. He holds a B.A. from Radford University and an M.A. in urban planning from the University of Virginia.

John Tuccillo, Ph.D.
Tuccillo is one of the foremost real estate and housing finance economists in the United States. He is the owner and president of JTA, LLC, a consulting practice focused on strategic and business planning. He was educated at Georgetown University and Cornell University, and holds a doctorate in economics. Tucillo’s books, The Eight New Rules of Real Estate and Click and Close (written with Jim Sherry), and New Business Models for the New Economy, are best sellers and have been instrumental in shaping the thinking of real estate industry leaders as they approach the challenge of changing their business models. His latest book, How A Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment, was released by McGraw-Hill in 2004. From 1987 to 1997 he was chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. He is a regular columnist for The Real Estate Professional.