Marie-Danielle Faucher
MDes ' and DDes '
Marie-Danielle Faucher is a Senior Vice President at Weitzman Associates, a boutique real estate advisory firm. With more than 25 years of consulting experience, she specializes in complex real estate assignments, including valuation opinions and expert testimony, as well as development frameworks, placemaking and master-planning strategies. Her work draws on market research, financial feasibility, economic impact, and the balance of private and public benefits for mixed-use residential, commercial and special-use properties.
Marie-Danielle works with private investors and developers, as well as public- and nonprofit-sector clients. Recent clients and assignments include:
JPMorgan, AEW, UBS and Princeton University: Portfolio valuation and asset acquisition and disposition in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and California.
Town of Harvard and Cape Cod Planning Commission: Town-center repositioning and affordable-housing land acquisition strategies.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City and Urban Resolve in Chicago: Transportation infrastructure and sports and entertainment venue projects.
Trust for Governors Island and KSL: Rehabilitation and repositioning of historic structures.
Luxury Frontiers Capital and IHG: Experiential hospitality platform and analysis of management structures for luxury-branded residential development.
Marie-Danielle brings a broad and creative perspective to real estate consulting. Her previous roles include project director for a major pension fund and redevelopment agency in Canada, project manager for an international developer in Prague, and architect and planner in Montréal and Boston.
Before joining Weitzman Associates, Marie-Danielle was a managing director in the Public-Private Advisory Group and Consulting Services at Landauer Group/Grubb & Ellis in New York City. She was also a project director at Cadev, a subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, in Montréal. In collaboration with the Caisse’s other real estate arms, Cadim and SITQ, she analyzed equity participations in Canada and internationally. At the Caisse, she also contributed to the predevelopment of the 20-city-block Quartier International business district. She coordinated design, planning and feasibility studies and worked with legal counsel on development agreements with public- and private-sector partners.
Marie-Danielle holds a Master in Design Studies (MDes) and a Doctor of Design (DDes) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, as well as a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University. She has been a visiting professor and guest speaker at institutions including Washington University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, McGill University and Université de Montréal.
