Legan Bayombo ’22 MSRED was named to the 2025 Commercial Observer’s Rising Stars in Real Estate roundup, highlighting his work at Silverstein Properties, which traces how financing and spatial governance co-produce the contours of contemporary urban life.
As Senior Analyst in Equity Fund Management, Bayombo helps shape a $2.4 billion portfolio distributed across opportunity zones—jurisdictions engineered through fiscal incentives, where urban development is conditioned by tax logic, federal programs, and speculative pressure.
Since joining Silverstein in 2022, he has focused on the infrastructural consequences of rising interest rates—specifically how shifts in monetary policy recalibrate risk models and enable new typologies of mixed-use urbanism. Projects like 3.0 University Place in West Philadelphia and South Pier at Tempe Town Lake in Arizona emerge not just as real estate interventions, but as spatial outcomes of intersecting legislative, financial, and ecological parameters.
