James Acevedo

Mr. James Acevedo serves as CEO and Managing Partner of Grapevine Development, LLC, which provides fee service development and construction management services for partners and clients, including serving as master developer and construction manager for a number of economic development projects via public-private partnerships, educational facilities and private development partners Mr. James Acevedo is a native of East Los Angeles with a distinguished career as a facilitator of people and ideas. As a teenager, he played a key role in the Chicano movement. Throughout the course of his work, he has discovered that Latino families needed a voice to be recognized in the political arena and community at large. This drove him to facilitate Latino leadership and foster economic development initiatives in these under served and over-looked communities. Mr. Acevedo has over 25 years of experience in real estate development, construction management and government relations, including the acquisition, entitlement, management and leasing of

affordable multifamily housing, single family housing, commercial developments, retail, mixed-use, transit, educational facilities and other public-private developments from master planning, procuring entitlements, and managing ground-up construction. Mr. Acevedo’s career also included hospital administration for several years. He served as CEO of Mission & Community Hospitals, Director of Development, Panorama Hospital, Regional Administrator of El Monte Hospital and Supervisor of CEOs, Woodruff & Monterey Park Hospitals.