About Kim Diamond
With over 25 years of experience in the real estate development industry, Kim has dedicated her career to various projects spanning across different cities in the Bay Area. She has worked for prominent developers and homebuilders such as Pulte Homes, Trumark Urban, Lennar Urban, and Catellus Residential Group, and also ventured into entrepreneurship with her own real estate development and consulting firms, 7x7 Development and ev8 Consulting.
Over the course of her career, Kim has gained comprehensive expertise in all aspects of the development process, including site acquisition, entitlements, community outreach, construction and project management, project lease-up, sales and marketing, and project close-out.
She has successfully entitled and developed thousands of housing units, catering to individuals from diverse income levels, family sizes, and needs, including both market-rate and affordable homes. Kim has focused her efforts on transit-oriented development, the re-use of environmentally challenged or brownfields sites, sustainable development, and urban revitalization projects. Drawing from her wealth of experience, Kim founded KD Shae Development with a focus on new residential development projects in Marin County. Recognizing the pressing need for housing in her own backyard, the firm aims to serve the needs of both current and future residents in the area.
Professional & Community Affiliations
For 20 years, Kim has proudly been part of the Urban Land Institute’s local San Francisco District Council and Executive Board, as Chair of the Executive Board, Governance Chair, Vice Chair of Mission Advancement, Advisory Committee member for the Developers of Color Cohort, among other roles. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is the oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world, with the mission of shaping the built environment for transformative community impact.
Kim is also a member of Lambda Alpha International, Golden Gate Chapter. LAI is an honorary society of approximately 350 San Francisco Bay Area land economics professionals. Disciplines include investment, development, planning, finance, construction, legal, engineering and design. The chapter is part of the LAI organization with 30 chapters and 2,000+ members internationally.
She was also the past Chair and Board Member for Lao Family Community Development (LFCD), a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance economic mobility and well-being of diverse communities through culturally informed health, employment, housing, education and supportive services.
Kim currently serves on the Board of CanDo! Education Foundation, a non-profit organization that partners with the Miller Creek School District (San Rafael), in order to bridge the financial gap between current state and local funding and the cost of an enriched, well-rounded education for all students within the District.
Kim received her Master of Arts in Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University, with a concentration in urban design and planning. She lives in San Rafael with her family, and has two kids (one attending Miller Creek Middle School, one off to college). She and her husband are also proud owners of Johnny Doughnuts, located in San Rafael and Larkspur, and have been very happy serving the Marin community for the past ten years.
