MEET OUR TEAM

Marissa Phipps, CCIM started Urban Utopia Real Estate Partners with over 19 years of experience in the real estate industry. Her career in real estate began with GE Capital’s equity investment team as an Associate where she underwrote multi-family, retail, office, and industrial assets. Marissa then transitioned to being a Portfolio Manager at Atlanta Housing where she managed the redevelopment of Atlanta Housing’s original communities into thriving, mixed-income, Class A housing. She was then promoted to roles in project management with Truist Community Capital and U.S. Bank. As an investor and lender, Marissa has collectively underwritten and funded over $1.5 Billion in equity and debt for the construction of housing across the country.

In development, Marissa has worked as a Senior Project Manager and Director of Development for organizations such as National Church Residences, the nation’s largest non-profit developer of senior housing, CIM Group, the master developer for the $5B mixed-use investment in downtown Atlanta, known as Centennial Yards, and for The Benoit Group, one of the region’s premier developers of affordable and workforce housing.

EDUCATION / AFFILIATIONS

Marissa earned an Industrial Engineering degree from Clemson University and an MBA in Real Estate from Georgia State University.