Enterprise Appoints New York Leader
Kim Darga has joined Enterprise Community Partners as its new vice president and New York market leader. Bringing almost two decades of experience to her role, she will lead the organization’s work across the state, including New York City.
Darga recently served as deputy commissioner for the Office of Development at the city Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (HPD), the nation’s largest municipal housing agency. There, she led efforts to advance affordable housing production and preservation across New York City. During her 18-year tenure in various role at HPD, she supported and oversaw the agency’s financing, incentive, and related programs for the construction and preservation of affordable rental and homeownership opportunities; expanded HPD’s capacity to deliver affordable housing, with production increasing from 16,000 to 30,000 homes annually; and worked with a range of public and private partners across the city to implement new housing initiatives.
Enterprise’s work in the state includes investing capital to create and preserve high‑quality affordable housing, launching innovative programs to keep New Yorkers stably housed and spur economic development, and advancing these initiatives at scale through policy advocacy. Enterprise also produces original research on affordable housing issues in New York and proposed solutions, such as its recent report on rising financial distress in the state’s affordable housing stock.
The Clear Blue Co. Names Development Manager to Lead North Carolina Expansion
Bradley Johnson has been named development manager at The Clear Blue Co. (CBC), a developer, owner, and operator of workforce and affordable multifamily housing. He will lead the Nashville, Tennessee-based firm’s expansion into North Carolina.
Johnson brings experience across the full lifecycle of affordable and mixed-income multifamily development, including site selection, acquisition, entitlements, financing, and construction oversight. Prior to joining CBC, he held development and investment roles at leading affordable housing firms, including Dominium, where he supported development and acquisitions, as well as Ojala Holdings, where he served as an investment manager. He began his career in finance at U.S. Bank, working across hedge fund and private equity portfolios.
North Carolina represents a priority growth market for CBC, with its sustained population inflows, job growth, and a widening gap in attainable housing, according to the firm. The move also builds on the company’s continue growth across the Southeast, where it is scaling its development and preservation strategies.
CBC has a lifetime portfolio of over 6,400 units of workforce and affordable housing across 16 markets in the Southeast, with over $1 billion in assets under management.
Industry Veterans Join LaSalle
Russell Ginise, executive managing director, portfolio management, and Kyle Winning, senior managing director, portfolio management, have joined LaSalle Investment Management, a global real estate investment manager.
They will lead LaSalle’s efforts in affordable housing, a growing sector of the market, announced the firm.
Prior to joining LaSalle, Ginise served as president of Walker & Dunlop Affordable Preservation, leading that firm’s affordable housing preservation, workforce housing, and qualified Opportunity Zone investment initiatives. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at public and private firms that collectively invested in, owned, or managed more than 100,000 apartment units across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Winning previously served as chief investment officer of Walker & Dunlop Affordable Preservation. Before that, he was a partner and managing director of residential properties at Steadfast Cos., where he oversaw investment activity and portfolio management for a large multifamily platform. Over his career, Winning has been responsible for, and held ownership interests in, over 50,000 multifamily units across the nation, roughly half of which were affordable housing.
LaSalle Investment Management is a subsidiary of JLL.
FTK Announces Moves
FKT Construction Services, a full-service multifamily general contractor with expertise in low-income housing tax credit developments, has made moves to increase its project focus.
Kim Goodman, with FTK since 2018, will serve as vice president, business development, affordable housing division. Goodman is also the president of the Texas Women’s Affordable Housing Network and has 25-plus years of industry experience.
While Dallas-area based FTK has operated as a nationwide general contractor, most recently projects in Alaska, Iowa, and Ohio have been added to its geographic reach.
As part of the firm’s renewed focus on multifamily market-rate projects, Randy Rivers has been promoted to vice president, sales and marketing, to oversee this expansion. Rivers started with FTK in July 2024 as a national account manager.
RKTB Architects Announces Promotion
Giuseppe Spiotta has been elevated to associate at RKTB Architects, where he will contribute to the firm’s design solutions and growing roster of strategic partnerships with government agencies and developers.
Spiotta has been a key team member, working on a wide range of projects, including renovation work for shelters managed by the New York City Department of Homeless Services, as well as The Allerton, a 32-unit affordable housing development in in the city, the first project on which Spiotta led project management on his own.
He recently completed managing a major renovation of the ANCP West 134th Street cluster, comprising several buildings totaling 69 affordable housing units in Harlem.