What started out as a footnote in a National Real Estate Investor slide show on alternative asset class investments became a stand-alone Q&A thanks to Taylor Johnson client Chicago-based CA Ventures and JJ Smith, president of its CA Student Living division. With over a decade of experience in creating purpose-built student housing communities — and a pipeline slated to deliver between 3,500 and 4,500 new beds each year through 2020 — CA Student Living is one of the industry’s most prolific developers. To read Smith’s Q&A addressing trends that will impact student housing in 2017, click here.

JJ Smith, president of CA Student Living, the student housing investment and development division of CA Ventures.