Schafer, vice president of development at Larkspur, is primarily focused on the firm’s pre-development activities, including site selection and acquisition, due diligence, project design, securing entitlements, and project capitalization. Since joining Larkspur, he has been involved in mixed-use, office, multifamily, hotel, and adaptive-reuse projects across urban Texas markets.

Prior to joining Larkspur, Schafer held roles with Kairoi Residential and HFF, where he worked on more than $3 billion of multifamily, land, office, hotel, and mixed-use developments and transactions across Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

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