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151 RESUME FOR ROBERT CHAPMAN Robert L.Chapman, III 2525 Lanier Place Durham, NC 27705 (919) 680-2000 bob.chapman@tnd.partners.com Bob Chapman is an experienced New Urbanist real estate developer whose projects are fully approved for more than two million sq.ft. of mixed-use commercial and retail development and for 16,000 residential units.To date, 677,000 sq. ft. of new construction has been built and 49,000 sq.ft. renovated, at a total cost of$59.3 million in North Carolina, Florida, and Arkansas. Bob develops neighborhoods based on the principles of Traditional Neighborhood Development and New Urbanism. Bob is the managing member of Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners, LLC,TND Capital Management, LLC, and South Elm Development Group, LLC. He is a founding director and first board chair of the National Town Builders Association (www.ntba.net) and a signer of the Charter of the New Urbanism (www.cnu.org). He also is a founding director and he served as the first board chair of the North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance, a statewide advocacy group established in 1999. Bob served as a founding director and incorporator of Durham's St.Joseph's Historic Foundation which saved Durham's historic St.Joseph's AME Church and restored it for adaptive re-use as a community arts and performance center. He was also a founding director of the Carolina Cinema Corporation of Durham,which saved and restored the historic Carolina Theater of Durham. He is a founding trustee and he served as building renovation coordinator for the Central Park School for Children, a successful new child-centered K-5 charter school in downtown Durham (www.centralparkschoolforchildren.org). He was also founding trustee and building construction coordinator for the lower school campus of the Duke School for Children (www.dukeschool.org). Bob has been actively involved in fundraising for these and other nonprofits, helping to secure for them more than $10 million in foundation and public support. He received an A.B.from Duke University in 1971. Bob has served on many other non-profit boards including Preservation Durham,the Sky Institute, Durham Central Park, the North Carolina Art Society, Friends of the Duke University Art Museum, and the Samuel Cook Society at Duke University. He is a founding advisory board member for the program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism at the University of Miami and a member of the city advisory board of Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham. Bob's publications include contributing the section on project finance in Andres Duany's Lexicon of The New Urbanism, as well as articles in New Urban News titled "New Urbanist Projects Attract Investment" and "TND Finance Report: New Urban Projects Yield Solid Returns." Bob regularly is a guest lecturer at the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business and the School of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill