Rafael Carreira

Executive Vice President

Rafael is a real estate professional with over 30+ years of experience developing and asset managing highly profitable, award-winning, complex urban projects, including office, mixed-use, residential, retail, and educational properties. These projects comprise over 10 million square feet with an estimated value of more than $8 billion. His role in managing development projects at Riverside requires leading design teams, obtaining entitlements, managing the leasing teams, supervising construction managers, and providing asset management for institutional assets through stabilization.

Prior to joining Riverside in 2014 Rafael was with The John Buck Company for 20 years, where he was Principal and the Director of Development. From 2008 until 2013, Rafael also served as a member of the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he taught a course in Real Estate Development.

Since 2020 he has served as adjunct faculty member in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

Rafael received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame and graduated from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with an MBA degree.

Representative projects include: 

1900 Lawrence — Denver, Colorado

1111 South Tryon — Charlotte, North Carolina

320 South Canal — Chicago, Illinois 

150 North Riverside Plaza — Chicago, Illinois 

The Main — Evanston, Illinois 

Previous projects include:

110 North Wacker — Chicago, Illinois 

111 South Wacker Drive — Chicago, Illinois 

155 North Wacker — Chicago, Illinois 

2116 Chestnut — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Northbridge District Developments — Chicago, Illinois

Roosevelt University, Wabash Tower — Chicago, Illinois