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Jason Joseph Jacobson was born on January 23, 1956, in New York City, New York, to Paul Louis Jacobson and Norma Fabian Jacobson. His early professional experience connected environmental and land-use planning in Connecticut with private-sector real estate development in the Washington metropolitan region.
Jacobson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977. Founded in 1823, Trinity is a liberal-arts college whose educational tradition combines undergraduate study across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences with residential collegiate life.
He earned a Master of Business Administration degree in real estate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. The university, founded in 1789, is one of the oldest public universities in the United States, while its Kenan-Flagler business school is associated with professional education in management and business administration.
Jacobson began his career in public-sector planning. He worked as an environmental planner for the Environmental Protection Agency of the State of Connecticut in Hartford from 1978 to 1980 and then served as an assistant town planner for the Town of Farmington from 1980 to 1982. These positions placed his early work within the public administration of environmental review, land use, and municipal planning.
He moved into private real estate work with Oxford Development Corporation in Greenbelt, Maryland, serving as assistant to the president from 1984 to 1985 and as commercial product manager from 1985 to 1986. He then joined Osprey Property Group, where he spent approximately a decade developing industrial parks and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit apartment communities before moving to Charles E. Smith Residential.
From 1998 to 2002, Jacobson managed multifamily development activities for Charles E. Smith Residential, later associated with Archstone, in the Washington, D.C., region. His work included the development of more than 1,400 high-rise and garden-style multifamily units and the renovation and repositioning of two apartment communities. From 2002 to 2007, he worked for Bush Construction Corporation, overseeing three high-rise condominium projects and one Low-Income Housing Tax Credit rental project totaling 650 units while assisting with the development of an additional 500 condominium units.
Jacobson joined Archstone in 2008 and served as senior vice president for mixed-use development in the East Region through February 2013. He had primary responsibility for Archstone's involvement in CityCenterDC, a major Washington mixed-use project encompassing approximately 1.5 million square feet and about $1 billion in development costs. The project included market-rate and affordable residential units, retail, offices, and public spaces, and became a prominent example of large-scale urban redevelopment in downtown Washington.
In March 2013, Jacobson joined Hines in Washington, D.C., as managing director and oversaw completion of the apartment component of CityCenterDC. He later became a senior partner of ArchCo Residential, where his responsibilities included identifying and executing development opportunities, site acquisition, entitlements, design and construction oversight, budgeting, and building delivery and start-up operations. His later work has covered multifamily development across the Mid-Atlantic and other U.S. markets, including rental, condominium, luxury, and income-restricted housing.
Jacobson oversaw Archstone's involvement in CityCenterDC, a major mixed-use development in downtown Washington, D.C., comprising approximately 1.5 million square feet and about $1 billion in development costs.
During his work with Charles E. Smith Residential and Bush Construction Corporation, Jacobson managed or had primary responsibility for multifamily, condominium, and affordable-housing developments totaling more than 2,000 units, in addition to assisting with the development of further condominium units.
Jacobson is identified with Judaism, a monotheistic religious tradition grounded in the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic interpretation, communal practice, and ethical responsibility. Jewish religious life has developed through diverse traditions and communities while maintaining a strong emphasis on study, law, memory, and collective identity.
Jacobson is identified with the Democratic Party of the United States. The party has historically combined support for representative government and civil rights with public investment, social welfare programs, labor protections, and regulation of economic activity, although its policies and coalitions have changed substantially over time.
Jacobson has been associated with the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, and the American Planning Association. These organizations support professional exchange, research, planning practice, and development standards in the fields of real estate and land use.
He has also served as a board member and youth baseball coach with Bethesda Chevy Chase Baseball, connecting his professional life in the Washington metropolitan area with community sports activity.
Jacobson married Michele Elizabeth Fowler on March 29, 1987. His parents were Paul Louis Jacobson and Norma Fabian Jacobson.
