Peter Chmielewski
Division President – Central
Quarterra

As Division President for Quarterra Multifamily Communities (QMC), Peter Chmielewski leads the Midwest Region on all business operations, strategy, and real estate development efforts. He leads cross disciplinary teams on all site acquisition, contract negotiation, underwriting, entitlement, design, development, construction, property management, and disposition efforts. Since joining QMC in 2013, Peter has led the successful completion of 14 different large-scale multifamily comprised of over 3,800 units, 100,000SF of retail, and over $1B of development costs.

Peter is an architect turned real estate developer with over 19 years of experience on large-scale development projects across the globe. As a design architect with Perkins+Will, Peter led design teams on various asset classes on large scale projects in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. With Hines, he worked on mid-to-high rise multi-family and office developments in Chicago and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Peter studied business at the University of Wisconsin, architecture at the University of Minnesota, and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with concentrations in Real Estate Development and International Business.

(Chmielewski is pronounced “shim-a-less-key”)