“Always be eager to learn,” Alex Kopicki urged a group of NAIOP Maryland Developing Leaders (DL) at a recent dinner event held at Amber, situated on the ground floor of Anthem House, a mixed-use project in Locust Point co-developed by Kopicki’s company in partnership with War Horse Cities and Bozzuto Group. “Real estate offers a conduit to everything in life because it provides places to live, work and move around. Real estate touches and impacts every person and every business.”

Brett Foelber, MCB Real Estate; Stephanie Caronna, St. John Properties and Danielle Bridge, Hill Management Services

Kopicki traced his career, which began in the development division of Manekin, LLC, a full-service commercial real estate company and led him to found Solstice Partners together with partner Jeff Jacobson. The two entrepreneurs also founded Kinglet, a website-based platform that enables solo practitioners and small businesses to locate and lease small office spaces in unused portions of existing companies.

Alex Kopicki, Solstice Partners, Spencer Perry, BB&T and Chairman, NAIOP Maryland Developing Leaders

In 2009, Kopicki was chosen as a “National Developing Leader” by NAIOP. Real estate professionals 35 years of age and under are eligible to participate in the DL program, which offers networking, educational and mentorship opportunities.

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“It wasn’t many years ago that Alex was a Developing Leader himself, and he has clearly accomplished many amazing things in a short amount of time,” stated Spencer Perry, BB&T and Chair of the NAIOP Maryland Developing Leaders group. “His presentation was eye-opening and enlightening. A major takeaway is that opportunities are out there and available to anyone that has the proper discipline, work ethic and vision.”