Michael Drury Reynolds is the Chairman of the Board, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bond Street Investment Trust, a private REIT headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. Bond Street REIT has holdings across 9 southeastern states constituting the largest private portfolio of convenience retail shopping centers in the southeast, which have successfully challenged the dogmatic perception that all retail has been left for dead.
From 1995-2013, Mr. Reynolds was the Managing Partner of The Embarcadero Pacific Company, a privately owned, Bay Area-based, urban infill development and real estate investment firm. Mr. Reynolds pioneered the “soft-loft” brand of urban housing in the Bay Area, cultivating a reputation for excellence in design and aesthetics. Notable projects include the first live/work loft project in the Bay Area, The Fourth Street Lofts; the National Historic Monument and award winning, 59 unit Embarcadero Lofts in San Francisco; the nationally acclaimed two time award winning 104 unit Aqua Via building in Jack London Square; the Historic conversion of the Allied Paper Company Building and The Bond, a 102 unit project, both located in Jack London Square, Oakland, California.
Mr. Reynolds has multi-disciplinary focus and vast experience in entitlement, acquisition, development and finance in the real estate sector. Since acquiring his first single family home in Berkeley in 1984, while attending U.C. Berkeley, Mr. Reynolds has navigated through six serious economic downturns and one pandemic with an unblemished profitable track record across 150 distinct projects. His best tool to survive in chaos is to structure deals with two ways out.
Mr. Reynolds was born in Oakland Ca., raised in Los Altos, Ca., attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose (1981) and holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in French from the University of California at Berkeley (1985). He and his wife, Brooke, and their two children, reside in Rome, IT and Charleston, SC. Prior to living in Charleston, Mr. Reynolds resided in Belvedere Ca., for 25 years where he raised his two older children.
