A principal’s perspective.
A personal commitment.

Dustin Smith is the founder and Managing Partner of DL Smith Company and will serve as the Executive for your project. He brings more than 20 years of experience directing complex development and investment activities from site identification, acquisition, and due diligence through entitlement, design, construction, lease-up, stabilization, repositioning, and disposition. His career involvement includes development projects, acquisitions, and Project Management exceeding $3.5 billion in value.

Before founding DL Smith Company, Dustin served as Managing Director for Alliance Residential and Vice President of Development for a Publicly Traded REIT. In those roles, he led multifamily, mixed-use, senior-housing, transit-adjacent, and urban-infill assignments involving institutional investors, public agencies, community stakeholders, architects, engineers, contractors, operators, lenders, and legal counsel. His responsibilities included investment analysis, budgets and schedules, consultant selection, entitlements, permitting, construction oversight, risk management, executive reporting, and coordination of decisions across multiple internal and external parties.

Dustin holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from the University of Denver, a Master of Business Administration from Northwest Nazarene University, and a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Boise State University. He also holds technical degrees in Civil Engineering and Drafting. His professional education includes Cornell certificates in Hotel Real Estate Investments and Hotel Planning and Design, a Property Management Master Certification, and an Economic Development Certificate from Fresno State. Dustin maintains an active California real estate broker license.

Dustin is a member of the California Association for Local Economic Development (CALED), the Grant Professionals Association (GPA), and Grow America.