Sean Burton

Chief Executive

Cityview

THE LATEST: Burton is the chief executive of Cityview, a multifamily developer. In December, the company sold an equity stake in the 346-unit The Pearl on Wilshire in Koreatown, valuing the property at nearly $171 million. Cityview also sold the Mira, a 174-unit project at the Warner Center, for $70.5 million. Burton is also president of the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners, which oversees LAX, and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and the Real Estate Roundtable.

BACKGROUND: Cityview has invested and developed more than $4 billion and more than 100 projects assets to date. The firm works in the Western United States, Colorado and Texas. Before he joined Cityview in 2003, Burton was a vice president of corporate business development and strategy at Warner Bros. and an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers. He attended UC Irvine and the New York University School of Law.

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