About

Robert C. Kettler is CEO and Majority Shareholder of Kettler, one of the largest diversified real estate companies in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. Founded in 1977, the company is ranked as one of the Top 30 Private Companies in the Metropolitan area by the Washington Post.

Kettler has developed some of the region’s most successful multifamily communities, including national award-winners The Metropolitan at Pentagon City, The Metropolitan at Reston Town Center, Midtown Reston Town Center and The Millennium at Metropolitan Park. The company has developed more than 15,400 apartments and condominiums within 65 communities. Over the last five years Kettler’s condominium communities in North Bethesda, MD and Reston, Arlington and Alexandria, VA were the Washington, DC Metropolitan area’s top selling projects with gross sales in excess of $700 million. Additionally, Kettler is the largest developer of affordable housing in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. The company has a portfolio of 33 properties with over 6,500 bond-financed apartments that are owned and operated by Kettler.

Kettler has five multifamily projects in development, consisting of nearly 1,700 apartments in Washington, D.C., Columbia Town Center, MD and Pentagon City, Crystal City and Tysons Corner, VA. In 2012 Kettler will break ground on two luxury high-rise apartment buildings. The Acadia at Metropolitan Park will mark the final phase of Kettler’s Metropolitan Park project in Pentagon City, VA with a 411 unit, high-end apartment building. A mixed-use residential development at 450 K Street in Washington, D.C., will feature 233 apartments.

In addition to multifamily projects, Kettler has developed over 25 planned communities and more than 46,000 homes, including the 6,050 home community Cascades in Loudoun County, VA; the 2,434 home community Piedmont in Prince William County, VA; and the 2,600 home community Lorton Station in Fairfax County, VA. The company has developed more than 5 million square feet of mixed-used commercial space, including the 1.2 million-square-foot Trinity Centre mixed-use office park in Fairfax County, VA and the 1.3 million-square-foot Villages at Leesburg Town Center in Loudon County, VA. The company currently has 4.3 million square feet of commercial space development in the pipeline.

The National Association of Home Builder’s honored Mr. Kettler as Developer of the Year in 1986. He also received the Building Industry Association’s Monument Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

In 1987, Mr. Kettler established Kettler Management, the property management division of his company. The wholly-owned subsidiary manages more than 19,000 apartment units in 85 communities and over 1.7 million square feet of office and retail space. In the last two years the company has expanded into several new markets, including New York City, New Jersey, North Carolina and the Virginia Beach and Richmond areas in Virginia. In 2008, Kettler Management received the National Property Management Company of the Year award. In 2012, Kettler Management will add over 5,000 apartment units to its portfolio.

Mr. Kettler has a long standing commitment to education. He has served on Advisory Boards at George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College. Mr. Kettler served on the Board of the National Methodist Church. He served as a Trustee of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington, D.C., and the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia for five and six years respectively.

Since 2003, Mr. Kettler and his wife, Charlotte, have served as Co-Chairs of a $50 million capital campaign that led to a transformational redevelopment of the Potomac School. They have four children and live in McLean, Virginia.