TEAM PROFILE
Mel Gamzon
Mel Gamzon, President of SHIA, has spent more than 25 years involved in the seniors housing business. As one of the country's most respected industry real estate transaction specialists, Mel has handled more than $850 million worth of successful property ventures in just the last few years. His clients include many national owner/ operators, lenders, institutional investors and individual property owners.

Mel is widely recognized as more than just a savvy "deal maker."  His industry opinions are regularly presented in the national real estate press. Mel is on Apartment Finance Today's Editorial Advisory Board and solely represents the seniors housing industry in their annual real estate forum.  For Commercial Property News, he is privileged to prepare the industry's annual investment forecast that is read by real estate professionals and investors. His vast industry network is as a result of numerous activities involving public policy and industry enhancement issues. He proudly serves on the Executive Board of The American Seniors Housing Association which he helped establish more than seventeen years ago. Further, he co-authored with the prominent Urban Land Institute, the widely acclaimed publication, Housing For Seniors: Developing Successful Projects. This state-of-the-art book documents the development planning, financing, and regulatory process involved with successful seniors housing ventures.

Besides his advisory and real estate transaction practice, he is a former owner of a highly successful, 254- unit continuing care community in Pasadena, California. His experience with this $48 million property, which consistently ran at 98 percent occupancy levels, has been invaluable in understanding the unique operational, marketing and financing issues inherent in this evolving industry.