Mile High Development Team

George Thorn, President and Founder

began his real estate career in 1970 with Grubb & Ellis in the San Fransico Bay Area, becoming the regional manager in Denver in 1973. In 1977, Mr. Thorn founded Victorio Realty Group, a regional real estate development company, which later evolved into Mile High Development LLC. Mile High Development has been the developer of Colorado Center, a major mixed-use project located in central Denver.

Today, Mile High Development is focused on various mixed-use development opportunities at existing or proposed light rail stations along the southeast I-25 corridor. MHD has the ability to work in a complex political environment to maximize these opportunities by working closely with land owners, the City & County of Denver, the Regional Transportation District (RTD), Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), and other governmental entities.

Mr. Thorn received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1967. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (“ICSC”), the Urban Land Institute (“ULI”), and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (“NAIOP”), having served on the NAIOP Board of Directors. He is a former Denver Urban Renewal Authority (“DURA”) commissioner and served as Chair of Downtown Denver, Inc., in 2002 & 2003, and Chair of the Downtown Denver Partnership in 2004.

Lynn Crist, Executive Vice President

began her real estate career in Denver in the mid 1980's as a commercial real estate appraiser with a large local appraisal firm, Ginther Wycoff. She subsequently achieved the designation of Member of Appraisal Institute (MAl) and ran her own appraisal company in Denver serving local and national clients. In 1993 she joined Bank One as a review appraiser and helped finance numerous acquisition and development loans. She then joined a conduit in Boulder, CapSource, where she underwrote loans for Conti, an investment-banking firm in New York City. Ms. Crist joined Mile High Properties in 1998 as an underwriter for an exclusive lending relationship with Prudential. In 1999, she joined Mile High Development as a project manager assisting in the analysis of potential and on-going development opportunities.

Ms. Crist has an MBA in Finance and Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Finance from the University of Denver. She has the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and is a former board member of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW). She is currently the Vice President of the Bonnie Brae Neighborhood Association.