Chris Crawford

Chris is a Senior Managing Director and leads Hines’ Denver office. He is responsible for development, investments, acquisitions, dispositions, and asset and property management activities across Colorado and the surrounding Rocky Mountains. His responsibilities include strategy, site identification, underwriting, capitalization, deal structuring, design, entitlements, budgets, schedules, construction, and leasing.

Chris began his career at JLL, then HFF, focusing on institutional investment sales and joint venture equity, where he advised on 200+ projects valued at $10 billion. He moved to Hines in 2014 as a project manager for the development of two Denver CBD assets. Today, he has been involved in over 20 projects valued at more than $3 billion, encompassing office, multifamily, industrial, retail, senior living, and mixed-use assets. His most notable accomplishment is the development of 1144 15th Street, a 670,000-square-foot office tower, representing the first high-rise office built in Denver’s CBD in over 30 years.

Chris is a member of the Urban Land Institute.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Dartmouth College.