A Conversation with Land Use and Real Estate Attorney Brett Gladstone
Join us for a timely conversation, over coffee and pastries, with land use attorney Brett Gladstone on current policy and development issues affecting architects in San Francisco. With over 40 years of experience representing developers, property owners, and public agencies throughout the Bay Area, and as a current member of the California Architects Board, Brett brings a practical and informed perspective on the local approvals process, housing policy, and how architects can engage more effectively in shaping the built environment.
Coffee and pastries will be served.
Hosted by AIASF Small Firms and AIASF Public Policy and Advocacy Knowledge Communities.
M. Brett Gladstone
For the last 42 years, Brett Gladstone has represented investors, developers, and property owners in obtaining approvals for land use. He regularly appears before Bay Area Planning Commissions, City Councils, Boards of Supervisors, and Landmarks Boards. Governor Newsom appointed Brett to the California Architects Board in 2021.
Brett is a 1980 graduate magna cum laude of Harvard University and a member of the Class of 1983 of Duke University School of Law. Before joining G3MH, Brett was a partner with the large San Francisco-based law firm of Hanson Bridgett LLP.
Some of his recent projects in San Francisco include a new Public Library Branch; a supermarket and dwelling units built at the center of Glen Park; entitlements for a 194 unit condominium building in the Mission District; approval of a 463 unit residential building in Executive Park; approval of a 200-room waterfront hotel near San Francisco’s Ferry Building; converting San Francisco’s landmark Armory Building into a cultural arts center and and entitlements for the construction of 55 units of low/moderate income housing in San Francisco’s Mission District. Other projects include advising a large Bay Area hospital system on its campus-wide development agreement; conversion of warehouse properties into office and multi-media facilities and representing a Peninsula city in negotiating development of over 2,000,000 sq ft of new construction.