Leticia Lazo-Acevedo

Mrs. Leticia Acevedo is a partner and owner-operator of Grapevine Development, LLC, which provides fee service development and construction management services for partners and clients. With more than eleven years of experience in real estate development and construction, Leticia has formed and co-owned three real estate development fi rms in California and co-owned a certified woman-owned & managed construction company for several years. She has served as Vice President for affiliated consulting companies, such as, DCP, City Sights, and TAG facilitating real estate development, land acquisition, entitlements and construction administration. The real estate projects consisted of new and rehab commercial, affordable housing and new custom residential homes. She actively participates in architectural and interior design decisions and selection of green building materials. She attended the Small Business Contractors Bidders Bootcamp for Los Community College. Given her fluency in Spanish, Mrs. Acevedo interfaces with Latino business owners and families. She translates documents and actively engages in grass roots community outreach walking door to door to garnish support for projects from the neighborhood. Mrs. Acevedo started her career as an elementary school teacher and served on a number of Boards and Commissions during her teaching tenure. She was instrumental in the creation of Educational programs that favorably impacted the communities and enhanced the educational development of the students.