Anthony Lanier and John Coe
Bio
Anthony Lanier founded EastBanc in 1987 and is involved in all development decisions and the strategic direction of the firm. Over the course of his career Anthony has co-developed over four million Sq ft. of mixed use commercial Real Estate in multiple countries.
Anthony and his team offer superior local market expertise with substantial positive experience in successful zoning entitlement, neighborhood advisory political negotiations and large-scale Class A mixed-use development planning.
B.A. Vienna University (Austria) – Economics and Political Science
Show Notes
- “Offense and Defense”- Start off as transaction people and then once one has made a couple deals and then become operations people (5:30)
- He likes the “offense” or deal side of the business and his colleagues do operations (6:40)
- His son and others are the “defense” side (7:00)
Origins and Education
- Origins (7:20)
- Grew up in Austria, but born in Brazil (7:30)
- Shortly after birth his family moved to St. Louis, MO (7:45)
- Father was American and raised in NY (8:00)
- Grandfather was a Naval officer and lawyer (8:30)
- Grandmother was American
- Mother was Austrian and several others lived in St. Louis when he was growing up (8:50)
- Moved to Austria when his Mother decided to move back home (9:45)
- Grew up in a “ski town” in Austria (10:20)
- Father worked in Geneva, Switzerland and commuted to his town in Austria (10:30)
- Skied downhill to school in the winter (11:00)
- Moved to Vienna at 10 yrs. old (12:15)
- Jesuit boarding school in Vienna
- Attended the University of Vienna (12:45)
- Studied Economics
- Preferred staying in Austria rather than going to America for college (14:00)
- Married young to a Portugese woman (15:00)
Career Start
- Started working in real estate in Vienna as it had emerged from its war damage (15:50)
- Interpul- Office building developer in Austria
- FHA mortgage business- Middle Eastern capital flowed through Vienna investing in US mortgages (16:45)
- Set up a company to invest in the US (17:30)
- Joined DRG Financial in Washington DC in 1980 (18:30)
- Moved to Bethesda, MD from England (19:30)
- Worked there 7 years
Eastbanc Real Estate
- Started his own company- Eastbanc in 1987 (20:15)
- Migrated from financing to development (20:45)
- Markets went into the tank (22:30)
- Bought a shopping center in Norfolk, VA during the crisis (22:50)
