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Greg Specht's entire professional career has been in real estate development and construction. Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, Greg attended the University of Oregon on a football scholarship, where he received first team All Pac-8 and All West Coast honors in 1972 as a wide receiver. He received his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance in 1973. After a short stint playing football for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973, and the Portland Storm in the World Football League in 1974, Greg worked for Pioneer National Title Company (now Ticor Title) in Salem, Oregon. While there, he began developing residential duplexes, which eventually led him to leave the firm in 1975, to pursue full-time development activities. His early real estate projects included development of single and multi-family dwellings, subdivision development, various federally funded housing programs, and low and moderate income rehabilitation projects in the core area of downtown Portland, Oregon. In 1986, Greg joined Scherzer-Moore Partners as Vice President of Acquisition and Development. As the firm grew, he was promoted to Senior Vice President and in 1988 to President of Scherzer Partners, Inc. In 1990, Greg resigned from Scherzer to form Specht Properties and Specht Development. At that time, Specht became the general partner of three industrial and office projects developed in partnership with the National Electrical Benefit Fund, based in Washington D.C. As a commercial developer, he has been responsible for the creation of over 3 million square feet of commercial and industrial real estate in Oregon and Washington, with a cost basis in excess of $250,000,000. In addition, his firm has provided construction or project management services to third party clients on Greg Specht Todd Sheaffer Robert Burns Vicki Rising