Diversified Properties Professional Bios
Skip Tschantz, Principal
Skip Tschantz
Principal
Skip Tschantz
Skip began his career as a construction project manager with a major design/build general contractor headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, where he supervised various aspects of the construction of eleven commercial projects totaling in excess of 2 million square feet.
In 1972 Skip founded Diversified Properties as a Commercial Real Estate development, construction and asset/property management firm, headquartered in San Diego. Skip’s first project was the ground up development of a two-story office building in Kearny Mesa. This first project was a marked success that launched this new company into the field of commercial real estate where it has remained active ever since. Since its founding, Diversified has developed 38 projects in California, Arizona and Montana, 33 of which are located in San Diego County. These projects have included several different product types including: retail, office, residential, industrial and in 1996 Diversified began providing bio-tech product for the Life Science industry with the construction of a new facility for Isis Pharmaceutical. Additional Life Science facilities have been constructed for Genoptix, Illumina and Beckman Coulter among others. In addition to ground up development projects, Diversified has engaged in the acquisition of several existing commercial properties with the approach of physical renovation and improved asset management key components in repositioning the asset. With its long term perspective, Diversified has retained ownership of many projects that date back to the early 1990’s.