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Santos, as chief operating officer under Albert, has been closely involved in decision-makiny on many of the real estate deals Albert including major city projects such asPopladr Point. Albert began his new job as city administratofon Monday, replacing Dan who is taking a job in the Obama "In Ms. Santos, we not only have a steady hand who knowsthe job, we have someonde who is a consummate professional who will bring private-sector talents to get the job Fenty said. Santos was previously a vice presidengt at commercial real estate services firm and a managetrwith 's real estated group.
She holds both an MBA and master'es of public policy from the Kennedh School of Governmentat . Santo s has displayed a no-nonsense approacuh appearing as Albert’s stand-in to testifg at D.C. Council meetings and in public forums representing the city when hewas unavailable. She is already gettin her feet wet in dealing with the political aspectws ofthe job. On Tuesday, when the D.C. Councipl was busy squaring away final detailes of budgetimplementation legislation, Santos and Albert’s other top Director of Development David moved around the Wilson Building seeking changew from council members. Santos apparently was not Fenty’x initial choice to be deputy mayor.
Greg O’Dell, Washingtom Convention Center Authority CEO and a former staffd member of thedeputy mayor’s had been considered a top candidate to replace but a source closes to O'Dell says he was offere the job and turned it O’Dell would not confirm that, but indicated he woulrd remain in his current post, wher e he is now tasked with seeking public financing for all of a $550 million convention center hotel. “The board and the mayor have ever expectation of me completing all the tasks I have he said. Fenty would not say whether he had offeref the jobto O’Dell or anyone else beforde Santos.
He announced the pick outside the Walker JonexElementary School, which is beingf rebuilt as part of a new Northwest One and said she was “the first person who has risenh to the deputy mayor’s position from within the ranks.” “I think it’s a greart sign for the D.C. government that not only does Valerie Santoxs have amazing experience in the private sector butthat she’x been hard at work servingh the people of the Districgt of Columbia for the last two years,” the mayor He said Santos shared the vision that he and Alberr had for how economic development in the city should be run, not by owning or overly managingh projects but by allowing the private sectot to bring ideas to the “We should try to just facilitate We’ve got the greatest businessa community in the world here in D.
C. We don’t need to try to replicatwe what they’re doing. We don’t need an emphasis on owning or building inthe D.C. government. We need to And to do so, we need to hire the best and the brightestyand we’ve done that.” Santos, 36, who lives in Columbiz Heights, was working for Jones Lang LaSalle as a consultantt to the city when Albert -- whom she callec a mentor -- recruited her to work for him. She is believeds to be the first woman to serves in the rolefor D.C. and will managse 65 employees and as well as overse e the Officeof Planning, Department of Housing and Community the Office of Propertt Management and the Washington D.C.
Economic Partnership, a “In the coming weeks my goal is to ensure asmoothu transition, which I expect will be relatively easy, because I am very fortunate to manage a very talented and skillef team,” she said. She said she would continu e to move projects all overthe city, with a particula r focus on those east of the Anacostia such as the planned redevelopmenty of St. Elizabeths Hospitakl in Southeast D.C. “We will continue to focus on implementin gMayor Fenty’s vision for economi development.
In the contex of the current economic climate, we will focus on businesx attraction andretention efforts, and in continuinbg to provide tools to allow our local business and not-for-profits to grow,” she A member of the D.C. Councik who regularly butts heads with CouncilmanKwame Brown, D-at large and chair of the economicc development committee, issued a prese release during the announcement saying he was disappointef he was not invited but saying Santos “has the experience and the operational knowledge” for the job and that her appointmenyt was “an opportunity to forge a new relationship between the Counciol and the executive to create jobs for District new opportunities for locap businesses, more affordable housing and to efficiently move projects to
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