Michael is a Partner at Condor Partners, LLC. He is responsible for overseeing all of the firm’s Real Estate development activity and strategy. Condor is a focused Impact Development firm with over $250 million of active development in Chicago neighborhoods from Pilsen to Portage Park. We specialize in working with our neighbors and communities to develop in alignment with local values and character. This has proven over and over to produce stronger returns and more resilient projects.
At Condor Partners we believe that smart thinking can challenge limitations, integrity is the cornerstone to success and expanding paradigms is essential to growth. To that end, it is our mission as a boutique real estate & investment development firm to seek unique opportunities that better communities, to remain steadfast in our vision to ethically transform neighborhoods and to continue pioneering new visions and landscapes for ourselves and our partners.
In Native American and South American cultures, the condor is considered a sacred symbol of four cardinal virtues: wisdom, justice, goodness and leadership. It is believed that condors represent vision and that their energy can help clarify purpose. Translating and embracing these qualities, Condor Partners was built on the foundations of integrity, expertise and most importantly, vision. Our team can see beyond the status quo and is driven by the desire to surpass the expected, consider different points of view and to navigate effortlessly through any obstacle.
Prior to joining Condor, Michael was a Development Partner at Centrum Partners LLC in Chicago. He was responsible for sourcing and developing “out of the box” and institutional level projects for Centrum. He developed over $200 million of real estate for the firm, including Hospitality, Industrial, Flex Office, and Residential. Prior to joining Centrum in early 2007, Michael founded and ran his family real estate development company in New York from 2000-2007. McLean Development, LLC focused on suburban master planned communities entitling over 2,000 residential units and 500,000sf of commercial space on Long Island and Rochester, NY. From 1998-2000 Michael and his brother Sean McLean founded and ran one of the first firms focused on Hospitality in Healthcare, helping hospitals convert vacant space to hotel and special service wards.
Michael holds a Master’s of Science from New York University with a focus on International Development and Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Princeton University.