The People Behind
Metropolitan Development Services
Trained as an architect, Pawel is a developer, senior consultant, entitlement expert, and community steward who combines the vision of a long-time entrepreneur with the structured approach of a corporate professional. He has been directly responsible for the acquisition, design, development, or redevelopment of nearly $2.5 billion of mixed-use, condominium, and multi-family communities totaling over 2,000 units, as well as multiple retail and entertainment properties.
Pawel has negotiated millions of dollars in incentives, tax credit deals, and complex entitlements and is considered a zoning and urban planning expert. Prior to founding Metropolitan, he served as Executive Vice President at Lincoln Ventures and Vice President of Development at Intracorp — where he managed the development of 44 East, Austin's project of the year in 2023, a 49-story downtown condominium high-rise. He began his career in Chicago as founder and CEO of Metropolitan Development Enterprises. A native of Warsaw, Poland, Pawel studied Architecture at Warsaw Polytechnic University, the University of Detroit Mercy, and the International Academy of Merchandising & Design.
A construction industry expert with 19 years of experience, Matt has been part of contracting billions of dollars in construction projects across the Dallas, Austin, and Houston markets, spanning multifamily, mixed-use, retail, office, senior living, and hospitality. He has worked for the largest general contracting firms in Texas and maintains strong relationships with dozens of construction partners across the state.
At Metropolitan, Matt brings that depth of contractor knowledge directly to bear on project planning, cost estimation, and construction partner selection — ensuring MDC’s projects are competitively bid, properly structured, and delivered to the highest standard. He holds a degree in Construction Science from the University of Oklahoma and serves on the Hood County Development Commission.
A seasoned commercial real estate development professional with over 15 years of experience spanning acquisitions, entitlement, finance, underwriting, and project management. At Metropolitan, Brandon oversees site evaluation, entitlement negotiation, capital stack formation, analytics and underwriting, and project execution — ensuring alignment with tenant, buyer, lender, and investor objectives.
Prior to Metropolitan, Brandon led the full lifecycle of new-build Class A office projects at Elevate Growth Partners, provided project management support at Urbanspace Development, and spent nearly seven years growing from Intern to Project Manager at Schlosser Development. He holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Denver’s Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate & Construction Management.
A 35+ year commercial real estate professional and native of Central Texas, Eric brings a rare combination of appraisal expertise, brokerage acumen, and development experience to Metropolitan. He holds the prestigious MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute — the highest credential in the appraisal profession, held by fewer than 10,000 practitioners worldwide — as well as the CCIM designation from the CCIM Institute, which recognizes mastery of investment analysis, market analysis, and financial decision-making in commercial real estate. He also holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Eric spent 20 years as a review appraiser with Frost Bank, ordering and reviewing thousands of appraisals on existing properties and proposed commercial deals across Texas, spanning retail, office, medical office, multifamily, condominiums, industrial, mixed-use, farm and ranch, and special-use properties. That breadth of exposure gave Eric an unusually complete picture of how lenders evaluate risk and value across every asset class — a perspective that directly informs MDC’s underwriting and site selection process. He also brings court and eminent domain experience, having served as an expert witness in valuation disputes.
His deep appraisal background, layered with brokerage experience and now hands-on involvement in ground-up development, gives Eric a multi-dimensional view of real estate that few practitioners possess. At Metropolitan, he contributes to site evaluation, deal structuring, and market analysis — helping the team identify not only what a site is worth today, but what it can become.
