Nick Placek is a director with Baker Tilly’s development advisory practice. He is an innovative leader with more than 25 years of experience in the real estate development and construction industry. Nick is focused on maximizing value for owners’ real estate development projects. His career runs the gamut of asset types from multifamily, hospitality, healthcare, sports facilities, K-12 education and even a theme park. His knowledge of the development process, leadership capabilities and problem-solving acuity aids owners and project teams to overcome obstacles and ensure success.
- Experienced with providing bespoke real estate project consulting services through all phases of real estate development including due diligence, highest and best use, construction budget creation, schedule assessment and troubleshooting, contract review, procurement, bid leveling and award, strategic planning to substantial completion evaluation, punch list and closeout leadership
- Project executive for $35 million, 135-unit senior affordable housing development in San Antonio, Texas
- Development director for $80 million, 233-unit affordable family housing development in Louisville, Kentucky, being constructed on a brownfield site and designed to achieve Passive House Certification
- Represented $400 million, 5-phase, 172-acre, ground-up theme park with 50 rides and attractions, 252-key hotel, underground infrastructure, Department of Transportation (DOT) highway ramps and overpass
- Represented $91 million, 280,000 square feet, 14-story high school in the heart of Chicago’s South Loop with a skyline-viewing pool on the top floor, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) laboratories, underground parking and a professional-grade theater for student productions
- LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP)
- OSHA 30, OSHA 10
- Six-sigma Black Belt