Spencer B. Kallick

Spencer is a land use and environmental attorney who serves as the Century City office operating partner. He has decades of experience advising national investors, developers, institutional entities, high-net-worth individuals, and family offices in complex land use entitlements and real estate transactions. He provides his clients with concierge legal services to deliver efficient, practical solutions that get deals done. Clients value the legal and management experience he brings to their businesses, and many look to him as outside general counsel on a broad range of matters across the country.

Spencer helps clients obtain entitlements, with extensive experience navigating a myriad of federal, state, county, and city land use and zoning regulations, including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California Coastal Act, Housing Accountability Act, SB 35, AB 2011, and Density Bonus Law. He has worked on data centers, urban infill, mixed-use, transit-oriented, affordable housing, senior living, digital signage, hospitality, multifamily, and retail projects, with experience across the country in virtually every major asset class. His clients include some of the most prestigious developers and investors in the world, such as Alliance Residential, AvalonBay Communities, American Realty Advisors, Artisan Ventures, Blackstone, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Choice Hotels, Digital Realty, EOS Investors, Faring, Goldrich Kest, Hines, Hudson Pacific Properties, JPMorgan, Kilroy, Link Logistics, Lincoln Property Company, Oaktree, Pendulum Property Partners, RLJ Lodging Trust, and Silver Creek Development.

As a former city attorney handling land use matters, Spencer leverages his deep understanding of government processes and long-standing relationships at the federal, state, and local levels to resolve issues quickly for his clients. Having worked on development from both the public and private side of the aisle, Spencer has a holistic understanding of land use matters, and he’s able to create consensus on potentially contentious projects. Further, he has a curated contact list of architects, traffic engineers, environmental consultants, and other specialists enabling him to quickly assemble the right team to further his clients’ business objectives.

Spencer leads the ongoing partnership producing the Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey, a widely recognized biannual survey of leading commercial real estate owners, investors, and developers across California. The survey provides a three-year outlook on the state’s commercial real estate markets across major asset classes and geographic regions that is frequently cited as a benchmark for industry sentiment and investment trends.

Spencer also hosts Real Smart, a real estate podcast featuring conversations with leading real estate developers, investors, and industry executives on market trends, business strategy, and leadership philosophy in the commercial real estate industry. Through these discussions, he explores the mindsets behind the market, businesses, and evolving real estate cycles. The podcast highlights the real experiences behind the real estate industry and the mindset of these key decision makers.