David Hillman, a Baltimore-area developer and chairman and CEO of Southern Management Corp., died of cancer Dec. 27 at his home in McLean, Va., according to company officials.
He was 75.
Southern Management Corp., founded by Mr. Hillman in 1981, is a major developer in the Baltimore area and one of the largest owner-operated property management companies in the country.
The Vienna, Va.-based firm manages 78 communities with 25,000 apartments, 1.5 million square feet of commercial space and three hotels, including The Hotel at the University of Maryland near the university’s main campus in College Park, which broke ground in 2014.
Its Baltimore-area properties include the Hotel at Arundel Preserve, as well as historic downtown apartment buildings such as the Atrium, the former Hecht Co. flagship department store at Howard and Lexington streets; 39 West Lexington, the site of the former Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building on Lexington Street; and the Standard, which was formerly the Standard Oil Building on St. Paul Street.