Justin Donaldson
Managing Director (Mid-Atlantic, DMV)

Mr. Donaldson leads development and investment strategy across the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region. He oversees the full lifecycle of ground-up development projects, including site selection, land acquisition and negotiation, capitalization, and the management of entitlement, design, and construction processes.
Prior to rejoining Alliance Residential, Mr. Donaldson served as Senior Director at Greystar, where he managed a portfolio of ground-up development projects totaling more than $750 million in capitalization. He previously spent 2021–2023 at Alliance Residential, where he established and launched the firm’s Mid-Atlantic (DMV) office in Washington, D.C.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Donaldson was a member of the Development Team at JBG SMITH, contributing to large-scale mixed-use projects totaling more than 1,000 residential units and over 6 million square feet of office and retail space, including Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia. He also played a key role in the development of a multifamily community in Reston, Virginia.
Mr. Donaldson began his career in 2012 in real estate consulting, advising multifamily developers on site evaluation and market feasibility analysis.
He holds a Master’s degree in Real Estate from Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Miami University (Ohio).
