Premier Appoints Kunal Mody As Its New Senior Vice President of Development

Mody’s appointment expands Premier’s Development team, and adds notable fundraising, equity and debt structuring, and adaptive reuse expertise to the firm.

Premier is pleased to announce that Kunal Mody has been appointed as the firm’s new Senior Vice President of Development.  Bringing to the team more than 13 years of executive-level real estate development experience, Mody adds notable fundraising and historic tax credit knowledge, as well as extensive adaptive reuse project expertise to the firm.

A seasoned expert in hospitality development, Mody joins Premier from Blueprint Hospitality, having served as its founding Chief Executive Officer since 2012.  Throughout his career, Mody has demonstrated an exceptional ability to raise equity and debt, structure complex financial models, and oversee all facets of a project’s development process.  Based out of Chicago, Mody’s addition to Premier’s Leadership team also further solidifies Premier’s general reach and capabilities into the Midwest and Northern United States.

“I’m very excited to be joining the Premier team,” said Mody.  “It’s so empowering to join a team that has so much technical capability behind it.  Having Premier’s architecture, interior design, procurement, corporate engineering, and project management expertise available in-house means Premier’s Development team is uniquely empowered to achieve development success on behalf of our clients and our projects’ investors.”

The appointment of Mody to Premier’s rapidly growing Development team is a uniquely natural addition; while previously leading Blueprint Hospitality, Mody partnered with Premier as co-developer on several projects, including the recently completed Le Meridien Fort Worth Downtown historic hotel conversion and adaptive reuse project.  In his new role with Premier, Mody will join Premier’s tenured Senior Vice President of Development Rex Tullius, and in particular will focus on further advancing Premier’s hospitality, multi-family residential, and mixed-use development portfolio.

“Premier has set some ambitious goals to position the firm as an industry-leading commercial real estate development company,” said Hector Sanchez, Premier’s Chief Executive Officer and Head of Development at Ashford Inc. “Adding Kunal to our Development team is a notable demonstration that Premier has the experience and expertise to successfully develop world-class hospitality, multi-family residential, and commercial mixed-use developments across the nation.”

About Premier 

Dallas-based Premier is a full-service firm with over 30 years of expertise across architecture, interior design, procurement, project management, construction development, and contract administration.  With all services yielded under one roof, Premier’s team is in constant pursuit of finding innovative solutions to the hospitality, multi-family residential, student housing, and commercial real estate industry’s increasingly complex problems.  From straightforward soft goods refreshes to transformative custom designs for renovations, redevelopments, and new developments, Premier’s team of professionals is dedicated to excellence across a multitude of market sectors.  From concept to completion, Premier provides consultative services that are unmatched, bringing our clients’ vision for the built environment to life.  For more information visit www.premierpm.com.