KELLENBERG

Prior to starting his own firm, in 2017, he served for five years as Senior Vice President at the Irvine Company in Newport Beach as a leader of the company’s Urban Planning and Design department. There he focused on building out the Irvine Ranch master plan as well as large scale redevelopment in Silicon Valley, San Diego and Orange County.  He also led a GIS-based team in developing innovative analytical tools for property acquisition and gauging redevelopment feasibility.

 

Prior to joining the Irvine Company, he worked 15 years at EDAW/AECOM and 16 years at Phillips, Brandt and Reddick (PBR) where he consulted with new community developers such as DMB, Newhall Land and Farming, Rancho Mission Viejo, Shea Homes, Lewis Companies and others including several in the Middle East, China, Singapore and South America. Projects included Rancho Santa Margarita, Ladera Ranch, Valencia, Summerlin, Verrado, multiple villages on the Irvine Ranch and multiple new communities worldwide.

 

Steve also is known for research and development in the field of sustainability.  While at AECOM his team developed the Sustainable Systems Integration Model (SSIM) which games sustainability scenarios for building and infrastructure systems on multi-use projects at the district and community scale.  His approach to sustainability was unique in that it integrated both performance and financial impact in order to develop comprehensive solutions at the lowest cost to developers and the public sector.  SSIM was notably used in developing a new master plan and sustainability strategy for over 150 million square feet of buildings in the Marina Bay District in Singapore, which over the next 35 years will double the size of that country’s CBD.

 

Steve has on-the-ground development experience in the Sierra Foothills where he has developed two Conservation Development projects which explore new avenues for ecologically based development with the hope of providing a model that avoids rural sprawl. 

 

He has taught for 20 years in the USC Master of Real Estate Development program, teaching the interface of market, finance and design, as well as, co-authored two books with ULI and one with Harvard University.

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BOOKS

• Developing Sustainable Planned Communities, Co-Author, Urban Land Institute, 2007

• Great Planned Communities, Co-Author, Urban Land Institute, 2002

• The 21th Century New Town, Co-Author, Harvard University