Lisa Kirsch

Lisa Kirsch
Senior Vice President, Development
Brooklyn Navy Yard

Lisa manages the team that’s responsible for overseeing major development projects in the 300-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard through an aggressive growth initiative of adding over 2 million square feet of light industrial space over the next four years. Her team serves as the primary project managers on both self-developed real estate projects and public-private partnership projects. Prior to joining BNYDC, Lisa worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation where she worked on many large-scale public and private projects including Atlantic Yards, Flushing Commons and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Lisa received a Master’s of Science in Real Estate from New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.