Middleburg today announced the hiring of Scott Makee as Regional Development Partner – West to lead the firm’s expansion across the Western United States, marking the next phase of its long-term geographic growth strategy.
Makee will establish and scale Middleburg’s development platform across key high-growth Western markets, overseeing market entry strategy, regional team buildout, and full-cycle development execution. His charge is to extend the firm’s disciplined, vertically integrated model into new high-growth corridors while upholding Middleburg’s standards for capitalization, design, and operational performance.
“Expansion into the West is not about planting flags,” said Chris Finlay, Founder and CEO of Middleburg. “It’s about expanding geography from a position of strength and at a time of clear opportunity. Scott understands how to enter markets, build strong local teams, enforce capital and operational discipline with an eye toward long-term performance.”
“The opportunity in the West is meaningful, but it requires leveraging capital and organizational infrastructure, local expertise, and operational control while empowering our development partners with entrepreneurial flexibility,” Finlay added. “Scott’s experience scaling development operations across multiple regions positions us to grow deliberately—without compromising the standards that have defined Middleburg for more than two decades—which is what makes him such an excellent fit for this role.”
Makee brings over two decades of multifamily and mixed-use development experience across the Southeast, Texas, Mountain States, and the Southwest. Over his career, he has led the acquisition, capitalization, and development of projects totaling more than $1.4 billion in aggregate value, with a focus on entering new markets, building local teams, and delivering complex urban and suburban communities at scale.
Most recently, Makee served as Senior Managing Director of Mill Creek Residential’s Denver office, where he re-established and led the firm’s Colorado development operations. Earlier at Crescent Communities, he expanded the firm’s multifamily platform into Tennessee and Texas before extending operations into Arizona and Colorado, overseeing market entry, capitalization, and execution across multiple regions.
“The Western market expansion represents a meaningful opportunity to leverage the systems and processes already in place to continue building a diverse, flexible platform that can adapt to ongoing shifts in the capital markets,” said Makee. “What attracted me to Middleburg is the ability to pair entrepreneurial market entry with institutional discipline. When you control the full lifecycle—from how capital is structured to how projects are executed and operated—you can move decisively while still protecting downside risk. My goal is to build a regional platform that is locally embedded, capital-efficient, and capable of generating durable performance as it scales.”
About Middleburg
Middleburg is a vertically integrated real estate investment, development, and construction firm operating in the highest growth markets across the United States. Since 2004, the firm has completed more than $4.5 billion in transactions and delivered over 32,000 homes across nine states. Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, Middleburg operates through four integrated companies and has achieved a 30%+ realized IRR across multiple market cycles. For more information, please visit www.middleburg.com.
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