David L. Lansky
David Lansky represents buyers, sellers, investors, and lenders in a wide variety of complex commercial transactions.
Education
Recognitions
Named among Best Lawyers in America© for Real Estate Law; Litigation – Real Estate by Best Lawyers (2019 – 2022, 2025)
Named Scottsdale, Arizona’s Litigation-Real Estate “Lawyer of the Year” in the 2022 and 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®; Named Phoenix, Arizona’s “Lawyer of the Year” in 2010
Chambers USA, Band 1, Real Estate (2003-2024)
Legal 500 (2007-2012)
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating, Real Estate
Martindale-Hubbell and American Lawyer Media, 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Named to the Southwest Super Lawyers list, 2007 – present, Top 50 Arizona Attorneys
Memberships
State Bar of Arizona
International Council of Shopping Centers
Valley Partnership: legal counsel 1995-2000, Member of Board of Directors 1998-2000.
State Bar Licenses
Significant Transactions:
- Development of the Scottsdale Pavilions, an open air power center developed on Indian Trust Land
- Development of Desert Ridge Marketplace, an open air power center and lifestyle and entertainment center developed on state trust land
- Development of Tempe Marketplace, an open air power center and lifestyle and entertainment center developed on a brownfields re-development site
- Acquisition of Century Plaza Hotel and Tower in Los Angeles, California
- Acquisition and subsequent disposition of 650 California Street, a high rise office building in San Francisco, California
- Development of the District at Tustin Legacy, an open air power center and lifestyle and entertainment center developed on the former Tustin Naval Air Station in Orange County, California
- Acquisition and subsequent disposition of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona
- Acquisition and subsequent disposition of Tower A and Tower B, Camelback Esplanade, Phoenix, Arizona
- Development of Esplanade Place, a high rise residential condominium at the Camelback Esplanade in Phoenix, Arizona
- Acquisition of vacant land at the Camelback Esplanade from the Resolution Trust Corporation and subsequent re-development
- Acquisition of GM proving grounds in Maricopa County, Arizona
- Representation of Bank of America (regional headquarters lease), Phoenix, Arizona
- Representation of Del Webb Corporation (headquarters leases), Phoenix, Arizona
- Representation of Alliance Bank of Arizona (headquarters lease), Phoenix, Arizona
- Negotiation of air rights lease for outdoor advertising display Times Square, New York City
- Representation of Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in connection with the financing of the Colmac Bio-Mass Energy Plant in Coachella, California
- Development of Yuma Palms, an open air regional mall in Yuma, Arizona
- Acquisition, development and disposition of West Wing Mountain, a master planned community in Peoria, Arizona
- Acquisition, development and financing of Sun City Summerlin, a master planned community, in Clark County, Nevada
- Development of Cerritos Towne Center, an open air power center, in Cerritos, California
- Development of Long Beach Towne Center, an open air power center, in Long Beach California on the site of the former Long Beach Naval Hospital
- Development of Pico Rivera Town Center, an open air power center, in Pico Rivera, California on the site of the former Northrup B-2 bomber manufacturing facility
- Redevelopment of College Grove Center, an open air power center, in San Diego, California
- Redevelopment of Riverside Plaza, an open air power center, in Riverside, California
- Redevelopment of The Orchard Town Center, an open air lifestyle and power center, in Westminster, Colorado
- Development of Gilbert Gateway Towne Center, an open air power center, in Gilbert, Arizona
- Development of Crossroads Towne Center, an open air power center, in Gilbert and Chandler, Arizona
- Redevelopment of The District at Green Valley Ranch, an open air lifestyle center, in Henderson, Nevada
- Development of Rancho San Diego Towne Center, an open air power center, in San Diego County, California
- Redevelopment and subsequent sale of The Village at Orange, an enclosed mall, in Orange, California
- Development of Queen Creek Marketplace, an open air power center, in Queen Creek, Arizona
- Development of Happy Valley Towne Center, an open air power center developed on State trust land in Phoenix, Arizona
- Numerous portfolio acquisitions (loans, shopping centers, raw land, residential lots, office buildings, billboards, auto parts stores, drug stores, restaurants, bank branches and service stations)