Ballard Spahr LLP
Client SatisfactionLawyers
David Gest
- Phone215.864.8143
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Career
David M. Gest has a wide-ranging real estate practice focused on zoning and land use matters. David has experience working with city planners, architects, landscape architects, and environmental and historic preservation consultants on major development projects.
He has worked with an array of city agencies and community groups throughout the zoning and historic preservation review processes, such as appearances before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, and the Civic Design Review Committee.
David also has experience with many aspects of transactional real estate work, including complex due diligence review, property acquisition and disposition, construction agreements, eminent domain, and leasing of retail, office, and laboratory space.
AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
New York
Pennsylvania
Memberships
Community Design Collaborative, Board Member
Urban Land Institute, Philadelphia Chapter, Community & Economic Development Council
American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government Law
Philadelphia Bar Association
Ballard Spahr's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council
Education
Columbia Law School (J.D. 2010) Submissions Editor, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2008-2010
University of Pennsylvania School of Design (M.C.P. 2010, city planning/community and economic development) Recipient, Edmund Bacon Award for Best Professional Project; Daniel J. Curtin Fellow
Yale University (B.A. 2003, architecture/urban studies, cum laude with distinction in major) Yale President's Public Service Fellow