The ABCs of PFCs

Nick Walsh serves as Vice President of Development with the NRP Group, a vertically-integrated, best-in-class developer, builder, and manager of multifamily housing. He is responsible for sourcing and entitling new projects, comprising everything from origination to the start of construction. Additionally, Walsh works to build and foster relationships with public partners, government agencies and housing authorities.

Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Walsh develops affordable and mixed-income housing across the state of Texas with a primary focus on the DFW market. Since joining NRP in 2019, he has overseen the development of 2,200 units at a total development cost of nearly $450 million.
Walsh graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Ross School of Business.

Summer concentrates her practice on tax-exempt financings, tax credits and governmental contracts at the federal, state and local levels. Summer has experience advising purchasers, sellers, lenders, borrowers, landlords and tenants in various real estate transactions, including financings, acquisitions, dispositions and leases. She also has experience counseling clients on corporate governance, choice of entities and non-profit matters.

Prior to attending law school, Summer lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is fluent in Spanish.

Daniel Smith is a Managing Director at Ojala Partners, LP, and is currently responsible for all multifamily development and acquisitions in Texas markets. Mr. Smith manages all phases of the development process and has developed or acquired over $1 billion of multifamily over the last 7 years. Prior to this role, Mr. Smith worked at Inland American Real Estate Investment Trust in capital deployment and developed or acquired $400 million+ of multifamily, student housing, and mixed-use investments across the US. Prior to joining Inland, Mr. Smith worked in the real estate consulting industry and managed valuations and tax consulting for a $1.3 billion portfolio in central and south Texas.

Mr. Smith has a Bachelor’s in Business Finance from Texas State University and Masters in Real Estate Finance from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Shana is a Managing Director of Loan Originations with over 20 years of commercial real estate experience with an emphasis on complex multifamily transactions including both affordable and market-rate new construction, rehabilitation and refinance. Ms. Daby spent the majority of her career as an underwriter, which gives her a deep bench of technical expertise and a unique ability to intimately and skillfully maximize economically efficient outcomes for her clients. She has been involved in the closing of over 175 transactions involving over $2B of LIHTC equity, FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, bridge, JV/preferred equity sources. Within two short years, she has grown her annual originations volume to over $200 million.

Ms. Daby earned a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and undergraduate degrees in Finance and Spanish from the University of St. Thomas. In 2022, she was named to Connect Media’s Women in Real Estate list.