David A. Katz represents builders and developers of retail, industrial, office and mixed-use projects through the full arc of a development — site control, entitlements, financing, leasing and the entity structures underneath them — principally in Anne Arundel County and the Annapolis and Baltimore markets.
David previously practiced as a partner at Mulrenin & Associates, LLC, an Annapolis boutique focused on commercial real estate. He began his career at Hyatt & Weber, P.A., where he served as associate general counsel to Severn Savings Bank, FSB, a publicly traded financial institution.
David earned a master’s degree in real estate development from Georgetown University, a J.D. from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center, and a B.S. in biology from the College of Charleston. David is admitted to practice in Maryland.
Representative Matters
• Represented a waterfront property owner in a four-part Chesapeake Bay Critical Area and zoning variance case on a two-acre Church Creek property in Annapolis, winning approval of the retaining walls stabilizing an eroding coastal bluff over the opposition of four separate agencies.
• Represented a waterfront homeowner before the Anne Arundel County Board of Appeals in a Chesapeake Bay Critical Area matter, entering the appeal, securing a continuance and filing the project notification with the State Critical Area Commission.
• Advised a Roman Catholic parish on the zoning pathways to redevelop a nine-acre private school campus in Annapolis, recommending a legislative text amendment as a faster and less costly route than the special exception and variance the County Code would otherwise require.
• Represented the owner of a Severn River waterfront lot in a Critical Area driveway variance, from pre-file consultation with the County through the letter of explanation to the Zoning Administrator and the hearing.
• Represented a lender in the financing of a 199-unit senior living and memory care community in Laurel, Maryland, delivering the opinion of counsel required at closing.
• Represented a regional commercial developer in the negotiated purchase and sale of a suburban Maryland office property.
• Represented property owners in Annapolis and Prince George’s County, Maryland, in ground-floor and pad retail leasing.
• Represented a purchaser in the $17.5 million acquisition of a retail property in Edgewater, Maryland.