Ure R. Kretowicz

Mr. Kretowicz establishes strategic direction, identifies geographic markets, oversees land acquisition, directs planning and subdivision mapping efforts, coordinates product design, and identifies equity capital vehicles and construction lending relationships.

Mr. Kretowicz started his real estate career in 1975 when he fulfilled various management roles within Shapell Industries, at that time the sixth largest real estate development firm in the United States. In 1983, Mr. Kretowicz co-founded Sunland Communities and Sunland Consolidated, Inc. In 1992, he became a founding director of the Bank of Rancho Bernardo; in 1994, he established Cornerstone Communities Corporation (C3); in 1996, he created the Cove Equity Group and most recently cofounded a partnership with CrossCountry Mortgage.

Mr. Kretowicz presently serves, or has served, on the Advisory Board of San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration, the Building Industry Association’s Political Action Committee (BIA-PAC), the Lincoln Club, the Boards of La Jolla Youth Inc., the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the Building Industry Association. In addition, he is an active member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association and the Harvard Real Estate Society and a past member of Lambda Alpha International, a land economics society. Mr. Kretowicz has served on the San Diego Mayor’s Housing Advisory Task Force under two separate administrations and has received the distinction by being named as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young and USA Today.

Mr. Kretowicz has been a meaningful contributor to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation, the San Diego Ronald McDonald House, the San Diego Jewish Community Center, and the American Heart Association. The Kretowicz family has been honored by JDRF as the “1999 Family of the Year” and “2005 Corporate Honoree” for their many fundraising efforts. Mr. Kretowicz is an alumnus of both the School of Economics at San Diego State University and the Harvard Business School.