Development Officer
enellis@debartolodevelopment.com

As Western Regional Development Officer for DeBartolo Development, Ms. Nellis assembles and leads the development teams responsible for execution of over $100 million annually in retail and mixed-use projects. During Ms. Nellis’ leadership of the Western Region, the division has grown from $25 million to over $750 million in development projects in various phases of completion in a five-year span.

The Western region has an experienced team with a core competency in retail, commercial mixed use, multi-family and hospitality.

Early in her retail development and construction career, Ms. Nellis was Director of Real Estate and Construction for a high fashion retailer and was responsible for taking the chain from just 2 to 97 stores in just 4 years. Progressing from retailer to developer, Ms. Nellis joined a retail developer in their outlet division and was responsible for over a million square feet of ground up shopping center development in the Western States during her tenure. Ms. Nellis also led the development and construction for the Western and Central regions of TJX, opening Marshalls, Home Goods, and TJ Maxx and the Southwestern States for Home Depot opening various concept stores and developments for Home Depot.

Previous to joining DeBartolo, Ms. Nellis led the development efforts of the New York City office of Cypress Equities, an affiliate of Staubach Retail, which included large mixed-use projects within New York City and throughout the Northeast including transit-oriented developments in partnership with the City of New York as well as leading the preferred development programs for retailers with aggressive expansion plans in the Northeast such as Whole Foods. Ms. Nellis was also responsible for the redevelopment of Cypress mall acquisitions throughout the 50 States and for building the internal teams as well as developing strategic partnerships with third party firms such as General Growth Properties for leasing and tenant coordination.