Archstone Veteran in Development Manager Role

Arlington Virginia based developer Insight Property Group announced this week that Archstone veteran and Alexandria native Rebecca E. Snyder has joined the firm as Development Manager. The expansion comes at a time of Insight’s growing activity in DC-area multifamily and mixed-use development, including $130 million in projects under construction and another $160 million in the development pipeline.

Developers have broken ground for Fenwick Station in downtown Silver Spring, a transit-oriented development that could be the home of Montgomery County’s first Capital Bikeshare station. The six-story, 290,000 square-foot project being developed by Arlington, Va.-based Insight Property Group will include 310 residential units, 326 underground parking spaces and more than 8,000 square feet of…

The H Street NE boom continues, as a plan to redevelop a key block of the surging corridor into a 490,000-square-foot mixed-use project has hit the D.C. Zoning Commission. With the H Street/Benning Road streetcar line scheduled to launch in 2013, the development community is lining up to meet anticipated demand for housing and retail.…

Arlington-based developer Insight Property Group has relocated the firm’s offices to the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, Citybizlist.com reports.

Richard Hausler and Michael Blum became veterans of apartment development at Kettler — the area’s largest multifamily housing builder — before starting their own firm following the 2008 economic collapse. Since then, they have not looked back — maybe because they have not had time. After founding Insight Property Group in the fall of 2009,…

McLean-based Insight Property Group is the latest apartment developer to decide it needs to be on H Street Northeast, after it dropped H Street NE is getting another apartment building. (Amanda Voisard – The Washington Post) $10 million on Nov. 2 to buy the single-level Murry’s grocery store on the 600 block. Michael Blum, a…

On the path to prosperity, these three D.C. apartment executives prove that the entrepreneurial spirit behind a spin-off venture can fuel success. During the first week of January 2010, Jim Butz, CEO of McLean, Va. – based Jefferson Apartment Group (JAG), thought he’d just secured the landmark deal his upstart firm sorely needed. The Dumont…

Insight Property Group LLC is setting its sights on an apartment project in Silver Spring, marking its first development outside of Virginia. McLean-based Insight, founded in 2009 by the head of Fraser Forbes Real Estate Services and two ex-Kettler Inc. executives, is under contract to buy 8616 Second Ave. from the U.S. Postal Service for…