Michael Mitchell

Director, Mitchell Development Consultants, Inc.
Director, TREND CDC

Michael A. Mitchell directs development activities for Mitchell Development Consultants, Inc., a Midwest real estate development firm. His duties include managing the development consulting process, in-house and for clients, including: the development of project concepts and target markets; develop and supervise site acquisition strategies; assembly of the development team; identify and source project funding; develop and maintain relationships with project funders, attorneys, architects, other consultants, contractors, social service providers and property managers; prepare project budgets and operating pro formas; close all project financing, and manage construction finance through delivery. Mr. Mitchell has over 30 years of experience in real estate development and related services for not-for-profit community development corporations, government agencies, equity syndicators, and financial institutions. Mr. Mitchell’s experience involves the securing of funding awards and financial closings of low-income housing tax credit awards for projects in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois, and the development of market rate housing in Chicago. 

Mr. Mitchell earned his Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering in 1985 from Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, and soon after began working for a community based not-for-profit providing rehab technical assistance for Englewood property owners. Mr. Mitchell formed Mitchell Development Consultants in November 1999 and Mitchell Development Partners, LLC, an Illinois for-profit limited liability corporation, in July 2003.  Each firm is managed by Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell is also the manager of Greenwood, Berkeley, Ellis, LLC, the owner and developer of ‘Genesis II’, of which Mitchell Urban Partners, LLC, controls a 100% ownership interest. MDC INC Remodeling & Roofing is a licensed commercial roofing and exteriors remodeling company, also owned by Michael Mitchell.