Bernie Guinto

Evergreen Real Estate Group

Broker Evergreen Real Estate Services LLC, Chicago, IL (312) 234-9400 MISSION Improving Lives through development, acquisition and best-in-class management of affordable and market rate residential communities: VISION To be recognized as one of the Midwest's premier mid-market multi-family Real Estate Companies "Innovative Solutions. Improved Living"​ Evergreen Real Estate Group is a vigorous residential development, property management, and construction company with an experienced leadership team and a fresh outlook on the challenges of affordable and mixed-income housing development. The development team within the Evergreen Real Estate Group develops, finances, constructs, and operates high-quality affordable multifamily housing developments in a range of communities, from the heart of Chicago to the heartland communities around the Midwest. Evergreen Real Estate Group principals and development leadership share a combined knowledge of nearly 100 years of experience in the industry through various functions as owner, lawyer, consultant, property manager, educator, architect and urban planner. In an ownership and consultant role, principal Larry Pusateri has helped develop 61 different affordable housing projects in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. More than a dozen of these have been with various Housing Authorities around the state. In addition, principals Jeff Rappin and Steve Rappin have owned and developed a wide range of affordable housing, special needs housing, and market rate multifamily projects over the past 15 years. Jeff Rappin is a former Senior Vice President for The Habitat Company and has been involved as an attorney and/ or principal in over a billion dollars of tax-exempt bond transactions. Director of Development David Block developed $200 million in complex, mixed-use and mixed-income projects in his former role as a development director for a national non-profit organization.