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Development without the runaround
RB Develop exists because owners kept telling Guillermo Lopez the same thing: too many cooks, too little accountability, and a return that quietly leaked away between handoffs. So we built a firm with one principal on the hook for the outcome.
Small on purpose
We stay deliberately lean. A bigger shop chases more deals; we'd rather take fewer projects and be in the room for the decisions that actually shift a pro forma — the land basis, the entitlement strategy, the bid leveling.
That focus is why we underwrite conservatively, why we'll talk an owner out of a bad site, and why our partners tend to come back for the next one.
Based at 1401 Lavaca Street in downtown Austin, we work the Central Texas metro — close enough to walk a site the same day you call.
How the firm grew
First infill lots
Started with single-lot residential builds on Austin's east side — learning the review cycle one submittal at a time.
Into small multifamily
Moved up to duplex and garden-style projects as the team and the capital relationships matured.
Fee development added
Began running owner-side development management for landowners who needed execution, not equity.
Mixed-use & assemblages
Layered ground-floor commercial into projects and took on multi-parcel assemblages across the metro.
Talk to the principal directly
No account manager, no phone tree. When you call RB Develop, you reach the person making the decisions.