Vice President
Planning/Entitlement

Justin Craig

Currently, Justin serves as Vice President for Planning & entitlement for Tellus Group at Windsong Ranch. His position is focused on the management of on-site development activities, navigating jurisdictional permitting, while taking a leading role with the Town of Prosper, and local Development Community in North Texas. Justin was hired in 2016 by Terra Verde Group as Development manager prior to the transition to Tellus Group.

Justin’s background includes 15 years of experience in the real estate development industry spanning project development, management, acquisition, and disposition with an emphasis in real estate entitlements. He began his career in Southern California working for a large Master Plan Developer as a project coordinator working his way up through the financial downturn to the position of Vice President focused on forward planning, entitlement, project design management, and managing lot sales with revenues upwards of $200 million dollars.

He then transitioned to a consultancy role working with an investment fund and multiple developers, including his previous employer, focusing on entitlement, project due diligence, underwriting evaluation, creating cost to complete budgets, managing various entitlement related efforts, and navigating jurisdictional permit compliance issues. This eventually led to a role with a multi-family apartment developer managing the underwriting and entitling of two redevelopment multi-family apartment projects, one $96 million-dollar project located in the City of San Diego and another $78 million-dollar project in the City of Santa Clarita. The former requiring significant community outreach and governmental regulatory navigation.

Justin earned his Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree from the University of San Diego.