RedDoor Ventures is a Los Angeles ground-up developer. Through past projects our team has taken sites from raw opportunity to an approved, buildable entitlement, the highest-risk step in building anything in a small, design-sensitive California city, and carried them through construction and lease-up. Partner with us on a site, or engage us to run yours.
Start a conversation Watch the buildEntitlement is where most of the value is created and most of the risk sits. In LA's historic, design-sensitive, politically contested infill corridors, that is the step RedDoor Ventures owns end to end. The approval document itself is the product: it fixes what can be built, under which conditions, on a site that was worth far less without it.
AI-native: our operating stack lets a lean team underwrite, track supply and run entitlements at institutional depth.
We interface directly with the city, coordinate the consultant team, and drive the application to approval. State housing law now puts shot clocks on city review timelines; we build our schedule around them. And we stay: project and construction management through delivery and lease-up.
We own the city relationship from pre-application through approval. The application is ours: the feasibility case, the hearings, the conditions, the result.
Historic corridors, design review boards, contested sites. Our principals' record includes the first Builder's Remedy project approved in California.
Density bonus, CEQA strategy, and the state housing toolkit, stacked to the site's highest approvable program.
One accountable owner's representative from feasibility to certificate of occupancy: consultant team, budget, schedule, city, and lender reporting on one desk.
GC selection and buyout, contract administration, change-order discipline, close-out through lease-up. Our principals have run this across a $382M ground-up and adaptive-reuse pipeline.
Site, zoning, and density-bonus analysis; the buildable-value case.
Highest-and-best-use program with the consultant team.
Density bonus, CEQA, historic and design review, hearings, the decision.
From approval through ready-to-issue.
GC selection, buyout, contract administration, close-out.
Delivery, stabilization, and the handoff to operations.
RedDoor runs on an operating stack built the HurdleWorks way: the firm keeps its data and its tools, the code does the work, and the AI component comes last, bounded and source-logged. It is how a lean team underwrites, tracks supply and runs entitlements at institutional depth.
RDV MI is the market-intelligence layer. It describes the pattern we buy into, jobs outrunning homes, strong schools, a pro-housing city, steady rent and value growth; tracks supply building by building on the actual parcels; and screens for where that pattern shows up next. Every figure is matched to a real source.
Every project is underwritten to a decision point: build, recapitalize, or sell the entitled land. The discipline below is how we get there.
Design-forward buildings of five to seven stories: density without high-rise cost.
Larger homes than the new-build norm, weighted to one- and two-bedrooms, for durable tenants and slower turnover.
Ground floors as neighborhood amenity, carried at zero value in our underwriting.
Untrended underwriting at today's rents, with conservative exits.
We focus where the demand math is sharpest and the approvals are hardest, and we track supply building by building, not by the headline pipeline number.
Historic, design-sensitive corridors where we have run ground-up entitlement end to end.
The Westside's sharpest jobs-to-housing imbalance, and a city rezoning to meet it. Our most active pursuit corridor.
The South Bay's emerging mixed-use growth corridor.
A 233-unit transit-adjacent campus near the Metro L Line, taken from entitlement through construction groundbreaking.
Rendering courtesy of the project architect.
80 units, mixed income: the first Builder's Remedy project approved in California, won with unanimous City Council approval.
A completed ground-up build by the principals' team: a Spanish revival duplex plus two modern rear homes, four residences on a single infill lot.
The principals' completed work under A55 Capital.
A mixed-use masterplan for one of the Valley's largest retail sites, including a reciprocal easement agreement and long-term anchor structure negotiated with Walmart.
Rendering courtesy of the project architect.
Shown by role: the principals' projects at prior firms and under their own sponsorship, not RedDoor Ventures projects.
Development manager for a Pasadena family office, 2023 to 2026: led entitlement, permitting and GC selection across a $382M ground-up and adaptive-reuse pipeline. Previously Starwood Property Trust, originating $2.7B of bridge loans across 24 transactions. Co-founder of A55 Capital. Dual degrees in architecture and real estate finance, USC.
Over eleven years in ground-up multifamily and mixed-use development in Los Angeles and New York. As Director of Development at Cedar Street Partners, led 600 Foothill, 80 units, to unanimous approval, the first Builder's Remedy project approved in California. Previously AIG Investments, managing a $5.5B commercial real estate portfolio. Deep command of California housing law, CEQA and density bonus; ULI Americas Young Leaders steering committee.
Backed by an extensive bench across development, entitlement, and capital markets.
We are actively pursuing sites across our target corridors, partnering with the right landowners, co-GPs, and LP investors on what comes next.
Bring a site, capital, or join the GP. We source the play, underwrite it, and run entitlement, development and construction; partners share in the outcome.
We run feasibility, concept design, entitlement, permitting and construction management as your development manager, on a straight fee.
Flexible on structure: straight fee or aligned participation, whichever makes the deal work. Or write to info@rdvre.com.
