Daniel Hernandez is a real estate developer, planner, project manager, and founder of PROYECTO. With over 25 years of experience, Daniel’s portfolio includes a broad range of project types in urban places – from San Francisco to New York – in for-profit, non-profit, and public sectors. He has been in leadership positions throughout his career, and managed all phases of project development, from programming, planning, analysis and financing, through construction and asset management.
Daniel returned home to California in the Spring of 2017, after a successful 18 year career in New York City, to be near his family in the Santa Barbara area, and continues his work as a dedicated urban development practitioner in San Francisco and Santa Fe, NM.
As the founder of Proyecto, Daniel is more than a project manager. He works closely with his clients to understand their goals so that, together, they create a viable vision and feasible development strategy. He becomes a partner and close colleague with his clients to establish a clear pathway and governance structure for progressing a project to a successful completion.
Daniel is committed to building the civic buildings and places in cities that strengthen neighborhoods and stabilize communities. His work builds on place-based assets to create value and place-making solutions. Daniel has a solid background in affordable housing development, public-private partnerships, and large-scale mixed-use development, and applies these skills to manage the development of arts and education facilities.
