Bio
Gregory Powe, AIA, NCARB, has more than four decades of diverse professional real estate development, project management and architectural design experience.
Greg served as Director of Architecture for a major international commercial and high-rise residential development company. He has served as Project Director for major projects including the 3.5 million square foot Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC managing a design team of 300 professionals and a client group of three federal agencies.
Greg has extensive Principal level experience in the planning and design of a wide range of urban building types including multifamily residential, office, hotel, retail and cultural facilities and understands the unique technical requirements and market expectations of each building type and how best to integrate uses synergistically to create successful vibrant urban mixed-use complexes.
Greg has provided real estate development services for commercial and multifamily residential developers and not-for-profit and public institutions, providing site identification, zoning analysis and massing studies to determine property capacity, also assessing existing buildings for adaptive reuse and expansion potential (including historically significant buildings). He has facilitated several successful public private partnerships.
Canadian by birth and American by choice, Greg grew up and was trained in cosmopolitan Montreal, practicing in Ottawa, Canada, then in Houston and Dallas, Texas, before becoming established in Washington, DC and Charlottesville, Virginia. Greg served as Managing Principal of a number of regional offices of major international architecture firms including Ellerbe Becket, Cannon and EE+K, before opening his own firm Powe Studio Architects in Washington, DC and Charlottesville, Virginia.
Graduating from McGill University School of Architecture (with Distinction), in Montreal, he has been licensed as a professional architect since 1977, initially in Ontario, Canada. He is NCARB certified, with architecture licenses currently in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and has also been a Member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (MRAIC) and corporate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Greg is on the Executive Board of the Central Virginia Regional Housing Partnership and served as Charlottesville Chair of Mission Advancement of the Urban Land Institute Virginia (ULI) and as Co-Chair of the Charlottesville Area Development Roundtable (CADRe).