Steve Grant '92

In 2019, Steve joined with current partner Andy Nathan to form MCRE Partners. Steve and Andy met in 1999 as senior executives at Tishman Speyer and continued their working relationship after they left to start their own companies, ClearRock and Meritage, respectively. Steve co-founded ClearRock Properties in 2009 as a regional investor focused on acquiring, repositioning and operating under-performing assets in New York, Boston and Washington, DC. The company owned/operated 15 properties valued at $1.5bn, highlighted by the successful repositioning of 650 Madison Avenue with Carlyle leading to the highest sale price in the U.S. in 2013. Before ClearRock, Steve served 10 years as a Managing Director at Tishman Speyer, heading various functions including global leasing and asset management. He also served on the firm’s development committee and in the equity capital markets group. Before joining Tishman Speyer, Steve co-led the establishment of the Trizec office in New York. From 1997 to 1999 Trizec’s New York portfolio grew from zero to 8.5 million square feet. Preceding Trizec, Steve spent five years at LaSalle Partners where he led a landlord leasing and property management team in midtown and downtown Manhattan. Prior to business school, Steve worked as an institutional investment advisor at Colonial Consulting in New York City and a financial analyst at Electronic Data Systems in London, Dallas and Saginaw, MI.  Steve is active with New Heights, a not-for-profit that merges basketball and educational mentoring for elementary to high school kids.