Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Asset Management

Christopher LoPiano is responsible for managing the real estate and asset management departments as well as all aspects of the company’s real estate development activities from project conception through construction completion and property operations.

Prior to joining CPDC, Mr. LoPiano was the Director of Development at CityInterests where he managed the development of a 15-acre planned unit development in the Parkside Promise neighborhood that included residential, office, educational, and health care uses.

Mr. LoPiano has a career in real estate development spanning over 25 years, primarily in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD region, specializing in urban development and community revitalization. During his career, he has worked closely with community leaders and neighborhood organizations in achieving their community development goals. Mr. LoPiano has extensive experience in affordable housing development, including renovation and new construction in both the rental and for-sale sides of the business. He has led several large urban mixed-use projects, from project entitlement, through construction and lease-up.

Mr. LoPiano began his community development career at the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization where he helped grow a small housing counseling agency into a nationally-recognized community development organization emphasizing home ownership and economic development. He opened and led the Washington, DC and the Baltimore, MD offices of the Bank of America Community Development Corporation (BACDC). In his 11 years there, BACDC developed more than 2,000 units of affordable rental housing and a $100 million downtown, mixed-use development that included the historic preservation of eight 19th century buildings that were converted to residential lofts over retail, and the new construction of one high-rise and two mid-rise residential buildings.

Mr. LoPiano was a long-time member of the Washington, DC Local Advisory Committee of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation and served on the Washington, DC Loan Committee of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. He is a past President of the Baltimore Neighborhood Design Center and has served on the Urban Land Institute study panels for Norfolk, VA and Rochester, NY.

Mr. LoPiano graduated from Georgetown University with degrees in Government and Economics.

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