Directors Bios
Marilee Utter, Secretary
President, CitiVentures Associates
Marilee Utter is president of Citiventure Associates LLC, a Denver-based real estate advisory firm that specializes in public-private transactions, with particular expertise in transit-oriented development and mixed-use villages.
Utter has been a banker with Wells Fargo Bank and a private developer with Trillium Corporation, managing the revitalization of Denver’s Central Platte Valley rail yards. She also previously established the Office of Asset Management for the City and County of Denver and the Department of Transit-Oriented Development for the (Denver) Regional Transit District. Utter has become a nationally known speaker, writer and advisor on innovative approaches to community redevelopment and urban issues.
She holds an M.B.A. from University of California - Los Angeles’s Anderson School and a certificate in state and local public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School. Utter is a national trustee for the Urban Land Institute and past chair of the Colorado District Council.