Schafer Smartt, vice president of development at Larkspur, works across the firm’s development activities, with a focus on deal origination, entitlements, project design, capitalization, and office and retail leasing strategy and oversight. His work spans mixed-use, office, retail, multifamily, hotel, and adaptive-reuse projects in urban submarkets across Dallas-Fort Worth. 

Prior to joining Larkspur, Schafer held roles with Kairoi Residential and HFF, where he worked on multifamily, land, office, hotel, and mixed-use developments and transactions in Austin. 

Schafer is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of TREC Dallas and TREC Greater Fort Worth and serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Texas Silver Spurs.