Principal Profiles

Marisa Gaither Flowers

Marisa Gaither Flowers is the Owner and Principal for Green Door Advisors, LLC.

Mrs. Flowers combines real estate development experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors to provide a unique perspective to analyzing and managing the development process in complicated marketplaces.

Mrs. Flowers leads a wide array of GDA engagements including; market analysis for urban residential developments (market, affordable and senior product) and retail developments, financial and redevelopment implementation strategy for the redevelopment of public assets, inventory and development strategy for institutions, development management services for faith based community development corporations and tax increment financing for new retail and mixed-use projects, among others. Mrs. Flowers has served on a number of professional panels including a recent ULI Rose Center Fellows Technical Panel.

Most recently, as the Director of Real Estate Transactions with the National Capital Revitalization Corporation (NCRC) in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Flowers oversaw a team of Development Managers and directed over $300M of real estate projects for the Corporation.  Previously, Mrs. Flowers was a Senior Consultant with Robert Charles Lesser and Company (RCLCO) and was engaged on over 40 real estate advisory projects throughout the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. 

 Mrs. Flowers graduated Summa cum Laude from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies and received a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

Lindsay Duerr

Lindsay Duerr is a Project Manager for Green Door Advisors, LLC.

Lindsay has conducted consulting engagements for a variety of different land uses and communities, including commercial (retail, office, and industrial); market-rate and affordable housing; university-related development; mixed-use town center development; corridor revitalization; and economic development opportunity analysis.  Lindsay specializes in urban infill development, fiscal and economic impact analysis, and urban revitalization strategies. 

Prior to joining Green Door Advisors, Lindsay was a Senior Associate at RCLCO (Robert Charles Lesser & Co.), where she managed consulting engagements for a variety of land uses and clients.  While at RCLCO, Lindsay was a major contributor to "Priced Out", a series of widely-released publications for the Urban Land Institute's Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing.  The "Priced Out" reports analyzed the workforce housing gap in the Washington, DC and San Francisco metro areas.

Lindsay graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Design with a Masters of City Planning, with a specialization in Community & Economic Development. She earned her BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Psychology and Economics with Honors from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Firm Certifications

Certified Business Enterprise (Washington, DC)

Minority Business Enterprise (Maryland Department of Transportation)

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (Washington DC Department of Transportation and Metropolitan Washington Unified Certification Program)

Approved Market Analyst (Maryland Community Development Administration)

Firm Affiliations

African American Real Estate Professionals (AAREP)
Urban Land Institute (ULI)