Dirk Hallemeier is responsible for MacFarlane Partners’ investment activities on the West Coast, which include cultivating business relationships with real estate operating/development companies and other market participants, as well as sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and closing property investments. He also oversees the construction process of development and redevelopment projects undertaken by the firm and its joint-venture partners in the region.

Career Overview

A licensed professional engineer in California, Dirk has 17 years of real estate, construction and civil engineering experience, during which he has been involved in the development, redevelopment and management of urban properties from the perspective of an investor, developer, general contractor and engineer.

While with MacFarlane Partners, Dirk has negotiated and closed investments in more than $1.2 billion in development projects, and then played a key role in the development of each of those projects, either working directly as the development manager or overseeing the process managed by the firm’s development partners. Among the properties he has helped develop are Bay Street Emeryville, a mixed-use urban village built on a former brownfield near the eastern end of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; the office component of @ First, a mixed-use business park in San Jose; and multiple phases of The Crossing|San Bruno, a master-planned community built on former U.S. Navy property near San Francisco International Airport.

Past Experience

Prior to joining MacFarlane Partners, Dirk served as a structural engineer for Degenkolb Engineers, a structural design and engineering firm, where he focused on seismic retrofits for clients such as the State of California, Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, Berkeley. He also worked as a project manager for Ernst & Young, managing construction projects for third-party clients.

Dirk began his career as a project engineer for Perini Building Company, a Boston-based contractor. Major projects with which he was involved included a research center for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a physics research facility for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professional Affiliations

• Licensed Professional Engineer, State of California

• Urban Land Institute

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Cornell University

• Master of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Cornell University