Bryan Kelly

Bryan Kelly joined Gotham in 2016 as Executive Vice President, Development, where he leads the Gotham Development division, including oversight of the acquisition process, entitlements and approvals, design, deal structuring, capital raising, marketing strategy and stabilization and refinancing.

Prior to Gotham, Bryan successfully led numerous development projects for Fisher Brothers, a private firm focused on investment, asset management and development for its real estate portfolio. As Project Executive, he oversaw more than $400,000,000 of development, including the condo conversion of 101 West 87th Street and the design and development of 225 East 39th Street, projects spanning luxury market rate homes, 80/20 affordability, amenities and retail spaces.

Bryan began his career as an Originations Manager at First Sterling Financial, a privately held firm specializing in tax credit syndications, focusing on the origination, structuring and underwriting of tax credit investments to create or preserve affordable housing, followed by time as a Senior Project Manager with Atlantic Development Group, a leading NYC developer of affordable and mixed‐income housing. During his tenure with Atlantic, he oversaw the planning or financing of more than 1,000 new affordable homes for New Yorkers.

Since joining Gotham, Bryan has been an integral part of growing Gotham’s development portfolio with a number of new mixed-use projects, many in partnership with New York institutions to build affordable housing, schools, community facilities, and cultural spaces. Key projects include: Hunter’s Point South Parcels F & G, a public-private partnership consisting of two mixed-use buildings in Long Island City, Queens, totaling over 1 million sf; the Covenant House development, a multi-phased project consisting of a new 78,000 sf headquarters for Covenant House, an international non-profit, and a 42-story condo/rental hybrid tower with up to 400 mixed-income residential homes; a comprehensive master plan development in the Lower East Side comprised of two mixed-use buildings totaling approximately 400,000 sf that will include new headquarters for the Chinese-American Planning Council, the nation’s largest Asian-American social services organization; and a 2 million sf development featuring income-based affordable housing along with numerous purpose-built community services envisioned for the existing 11-acre campus of the Christian Cultural Center in East New York, Brooklyn.

Bryan holds a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University, College at Rose Hill and pursued Graduate Studies in Economics at the Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Bryan was a five‐year scholarship athlete and member of the Fordham University Baseball Team. He is also currently a member of the Advisory Board for the New York Housing Conference.