A project as innovative and complex as Las Lomas requires a team of experienced, visionary and dedicated professionals. We will add to this section the names of other highly respected professionals who are helping make Las Lomas possible. For now, meet the developer and the project manager.

Dan S. Palmer, Jr.

Dan S. Palmer, Jr., a second-generation Los Angeles-area real estate entrepreneur, is the founder and principal of Santa Monica, California-based Palmer Investments, a diversified real estate investment and development firm.

His firm's holdings include interests in more than 5,000 apartments, and land being developed as master-planned communities in California and Colorado. Currently under development are more than 9,000 residential units, 2.5 million square feet for commercial uses and two championship golf courses, with an estimated total build-out value in excess of $3 billion.

One of Mr. Palmer's major smart- growth projects is the village-like community of Windsor, Colorado, with more than 1,000 residences, a grocery-anchored neighborhood shopping center, seven public parks, an elementary school, and an interconnecting pedestrian/bicycle network.

Mr. Palmer's plans for Las Lomas echo his father's development history in the San Fernando Valley. A nationally recognized architect and Modernist designer, Dan Saxon Palmer was responsible for the design of more than 20,000 homes in the San Fernando Valley in the mid-twentieth century. He was often recognized as a leader and architectural icon in his profession.

From 1983 until 1994, Mr. Palmer was in a partnership with his half-brother, Geoff, developing numerous multi-family projects. To attain his goal of creating more multi-faceted communities, Dan Palmer established his own firm in May 1994.

He has lectured on land use and development at USC's Masters of Real Estate Development program, USC's School of Law, UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and at various seminars for professionals in the real estate industry. For two years in a row he has been a featured speaker at the nationally recognized Smart Growth Conference presented by UCLA Extension; was one of the featured speakers at Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 2006 Mayoral Housing Conference; and addressed the Latino New Urbanism Conference on cutting-edge master plans.

Throughout his career, Mr. Palmer has been a volunteer and/or supporter of numerous civic, community and charitable organizations. He has served on the Board of Directors of Dolores Mission, a social organization dedicated to the empowerment of one of Los Angeles' least-privileged communities; on the Board of Directors of the Doheny Eye Institute at USC, one of the nation's leading organizations dedicated to research and treatment of afflictions affecting sight; and was one of the founders of Homeboy Industries, dedicated to providing economic opportunities for those in need.

He has supported a number of San Fernando-Valley based organizations, including the Valley Cultural Center's Concerts in the Park, MEND (Meet Each Need with Dignity), the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley, and the Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA).

He has established his own philanthropic entity. Palmer Philanthropic Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation. Either through the Foundation or personally, Mr. Palmer makes significant contributions to organizations that provide support in the areas of children's healthcare and recreational facilities for at-risk youth; enhancement of open spaces and environmental conservation; and medical research. The Foundation has also made several grants to public television and public radio, museums, and other social agencies.

A Los Angeles native, Mr. Palmer graduated from Loyola High School of Los Angeles and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University.

Hilary Norton Orozco

Hilary Norton Orozco, executive vice president of Palmer Investments and project manager for Las Lomas, brings 16 years of experience in a broad range of areas, including community development; public policy; neighborhood and economic development planning; community engagement; land use and planning-related communications; media relations; and business-to-government relations.

She manages the entitlement and community outreach process for Las Lomas, which was featured in the 2007 American Planning Association's national conference as a model of "healthy community" design - incorporating aesthetics, a variety of economic opportunities, a mix of housing types, renewable energy and open space to encourage a healthier lifestyle for its future residents.

At her previous position as senior vice president of a national public relations firm, she managed public policy and development-related communications for large and small real estate developers and businesses. Prior to that, Ms. Norton Orozco was vice president of legislative affairs for the Central City Association, one of Los Angeles' leading business advocacy organizations.

Ms. Norton Orozco also has nearly a decade of experience in local and state politics, especially in the areas of land use, education, arts, culture, environmental justice and energy policy, housing and community development.

She served as business and housing director for California Assemblyman (now State Senator) Gilbert Cedillo. From 1995 to 1999, she was Chief of Staff to Councilman Richard Alatorre. As lead legislative and planning deputy to City Councilman Richard Alarcon (1993-1995), Ms. Norton Orozco worked in one of the districts most severely impacted by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. As legislative deputy to City Councilman (now Senator) Mark Ridley-Thomas (1992-1993), she worked with officials and community residents to rebuild South Central Los Angeles after the 1992 civil disturbance. Ms. Norton Orozco began her public policy work as an intern to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley in 1991, during her graduate school years.

In 1992, Ms. Norton Orozco earned her masters degree in Public Policy, with a housing and community development concentration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She graduated cum laude with honors in Economics and Political Science from Wellesley College in 1990.

She was inspired to a life of community development at the age of 10, when she met urban planner James W. Rouse, one of the first proponents of affordable housing for low-income families, while she lived in Rouse's most notable development, Columbia, Maryland, one of the nation's first suburban smart-growth communities.