JamiBalint
Partner
Real Estate
jbalint@seyfarth.com
Jami’s understanding of the intricacies of real estate development, as well as the law, give her clients an edge in their transactions.
More About Jami
Jami advises clients on matters related to transactional real estate and land use for the development of commercial, industrial, and real estate developments. She provides legal advice and assistance to clients in all aspects of real estate transactions and development, including commercial leasing, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, land use permitting and administrative proceedings, and construction contracting.
Jami has a broad variety of real estate experience, including representing an e-retailer tenant in multi-million dollar build-to-suit industrial leases, assisting data center developers with acquisition and development of facilities throughout the United States, representing buyers and sellers in a variety of occupied commercial property and vacant land acquisitions and dispositions, and timberland transactions. With more than 10 years of experience serving as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, Jami has developed practical real estate and business strategies, based on a deep understanding of real estate and construction issues experienced by tenants, builders, and developers.
Jami’s land use practice includes both policy and regulatory issues, including compliance with the Clean Water Act and wetland regulations; subdivision regulations; NEPA/SEPA; flood plain regulations; critical area regulations; Endangered Species Act compliance; shorelines; water rights; growth management and zoning; traffic impact studies and mitigation; and historic landmark designations. Jami has also helped clients prepare and process development proposals for distribution centers, commercials sites, subdivisions, town homes, apartments, master planned developments, gravel pits, and vineyards.
Jami has a broad variety of real estate experience, including representing an e-retailer tenant in multi-million dollar build-to-suit industrial leases, assisting data center developers with acquisition and development of facilities throughout the United States, representing buyers and sellers in a variety of occupied commercial property and vacant land acquisitions and dispositions, and timberland transactions. With more than 10 years of experience serving as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, Jami has developed practical real estate and business strategies, based on a deep understanding of real estate and construction issues experienced by tenants, builders, and developers.
Jami’s land use practice includes both policy and regulatory issues, including compliance with the Clean Water Act and wetland regulations; subdivision regulations; NEPA/SEPA; flood plain regulations; critical area regulations; Endangered Species Act compliance; shorelines; water rights; growth management and zoning; traffic impact studies and mitigation; and historic landmark designations. Jami has also helped clients prepare and process development proposals for distribution centers, commercials sites, subdivisions, town homes, apartments, master planned developments, gravel pits, and vineyards.
- JD, Seattle University School of Law
Cum laude - MPSA, Texas A&M University
Cum laude - BA, University of Washington
Political Science
- Washington
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Related Key Industries
Real Estate Transactions
- Represented purchasers and users in nearly 490 build-to-suit and acquisition transactions totaling more than 284 million square feet of warehouse, distribution center, and last mile facility space in the last three years.
- Represented a sustainable data center platform in multiple raw land acquisitions and assisted with development matters. One of the acquisitions included a sustainable data center, featuring 180 megawatts of capacity, waterless cooling, and a 1.15 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating on a campus near downtown Atlanta. In addition, our team assisted with site acquisition, diligence, development, and construction, as well as resolving zoning, entitlement, and infrastructure issues, including power.
- Represented a natural resources company in the acquisition of more than 50,000 acres of timberland.
- Represented an institutional investor in the disposition of a $100 million, occupied office building.
- Represented a Fortune 100 company in the disposition of a $116 million industrial complex.
- Assisted private developer clients in obtaining preliminary plat approval for several subdivisions resulting in hundreds of single-family lots.
Land Use Matters
- Successfully defended private developer in multiple SEPA challenges related to residential subdivisions in Kirkland, Sammamish and Redmond, Washington.
- Successfully defended appeals of subdivisions.
- Successfully challenged a local improvement district assessment resulting in a settlement favorable to client.
- Assisted developer client in obtaining approvals for townhome and apartment projects in Seattle and Bellevue.
- Assisted developers in development projects, including:
- The 6,000 unit Ten Trails Master Planned Development in Black Diamond, Washington, including an Environmental Impact Statement appeal and Master Planned Development permit
- A 500-acre commercial master planned development in Tukwila, Washington, including the development agreement, wetland permitting, and subdivision
- The Park 88 apartment complex in Bellevue, Washington
- Securing preliminary plat approval for the 156 lot Tanner Road Subdivision in North Bend, Washington
- Securing a special use permit for a Cowlitz County gravel pit
- The six-unit BGBC Condominium project in Bellevue, Washington
- Over 250 residential lots in several subdivisions and short plats for Murray Franklyn Homes in Sammamish, Redmond, Bellevue, and Kirkland (Washington)
- Site plan approval for industrial buildings as part of the Pacific Gateway Business Park
- The binding site plan approval for the Seattle South Business Industrial Park
- Successfully challenging the adoption of a Thurston County critical area ordinance with a victory at the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board
- Successfully opposing a critical habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act
Related News & Insights
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Podcast
Jan 29, 2024
The Property Line: Let’s Get this Project Started
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Recognition
06/01/2023
2023 Chambers USA Names 81 Seyfarth Lawyers as Leaders in Business Law; 36 Seyfarth Practices Also Recognized as Leaders in Their Fields
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Media Mentions
05/25/2023
Jami Balint Discusses SCOTUS’s Ruling on Restricting EPA’s Regulations on US Wetlands in Bloomberg Law and Law360
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Recognition
Aug 18, 2022
Seyfarth Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America 2023
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2023-2024)
- Recognized as an "Up and Coming" attorney for Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Washington) by Chambers USA (2022-2023)
- City of Enumclaw Planning Commission, former member
- CREW Seattle, member
- NAIOP Washington, member
- Urban Land Institute, member
- Co-Speaker, "The Property Line: Let’s Get this Project Started," Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 29, 2024)
- Moderator, "Identifying Opportunities in an Evolving Market," BISNOW Seattle Industrial Summit (July 11, 2023)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast – Current Trends and Challenges in Industrial Real Estate Transactions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 22, 2022)
- Moderator, "How Far Will the Last Mile Reach?" Panel, NAIOP Washington State Chapter (November 18, 2020)
- Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, board of directors (2022-present)
Jami’s understanding of the intricacies of real estate development, as well as the law, give her clients an edge in their transactions.
More About Jami
Jami advises clients on matters related to transactional real estate and land use for the development of commercial, industrial, and real estate developments. She provides legal advice and assistance to clients in all aspects of real estate transactions and development, including commercial leasing, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, land use permitting and administrative proceedings, and construction contracting.
Jami has a broad variety of real estate experience, including representing an e-retailer tenant in multi-million dollar build-to-suit industrial leases, assisting data center developers with acquisition and development of facilities throughout the United States, representing buyers and sellers in a variety of occupied commercial property and vacant land acquisitions and dispositions, and timberland transactions. With more than 10 years of experience serving as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, Jami has developed practical real estate and business strategies, based on a deep understanding of real estate and construction issues experienced by tenants, builders, and developers.
Jami’s land use practice includes both policy and regulatory issues, including compliance with the Clean Water Act and wetland regulations; subdivision regulations; NEPA/SEPA; flood plain regulations; critical area regulations; Endangered Species Act compliance; shorelines; water rights; growth management and zoning; traffic impact studies and mitigation; and historic landmark designations. Jami has also helped clients prepare and process development proposals for distribution centers, commercials sites, subdivisions, town homes, apartments, master planned developments, gravel pits, and vineyards.
Jami has a broad variety of real estate experience, including representing an e-retailer tenant in multi-million dollar build-to-suit industrial leases, assisting data center developers with acquisition and development of facilities throughout the United States, representing buyers and sellers in a variety of occupied commercial property and vacant land acquisitions and dispositions, and timberland transactions. With more than 10 years of experience serving as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, Jami has developed practical real estate and business strategies, based on a deep understanding of real estate and construction issues experienced by tenants, builders, and developers.
Jami’s land use practice includes both policy and regulatory issues, including compliance with the Clean Water Act and wetland regulations; subdivision regulations; NEPA/SEPA; flood plain regulations; critical area regulations; Endangered Species Act compliance; shorelines; water rights; growth management and zoning; traffic impact studies and mitigation; and historic landmark designations. Jami has also helped clients prepare and process development proposals for distribution centers, commercials sites, subdivisions, town homes, apartments, master planned developments, gravel pits, and vineyards.
- JD, Seattle University School of Law
Cum laude - MPSA, Texas A&M University
Cum laude - BA, University of Washington
Political Science
- Washington
Related Services
Related Key Industries
Real Estate Transactions
- Represented purchasers and users in nearly 490 build-to-suit and acquisition transactions totaling more than 284 million square feet of warehouse, distribution center, and last mile facility space in the last three years.
- Represented a sustainable data center platform in multiple raw land acquisitions and assisted with development matters. One of the acquisitions included a sustainable data center, featuring 180 megawatts of capacity, waterless cooling, and a 1.15 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating on a campus near downtown Atlanta. In addition, our team assisted with site acquisition, diligence, development, and construction, as well as resolving zoning, entitlement, and infrastructure issues, including power.
- Represented a natural resources company in the acquisition of more than 50,000 acres of timberland.
- Represented an institutional investor in the disposition of a $100 million, occupied office building.
- Represented a Fortune 100 company in the disposition of a $116 million industrial complex.
- Assisted private developer clients in obtaining preliminary plat approval for several subdivisions resulting in hundreds of single-family lots.
Land Use Matters
- Successfully defended private developer in multiple SEPA challenges related to residential subdivisions in Kirkland, Sammamish and Redmond, Washington.
- Successfully defended appeals of subdivisions.
- Successfully challenged a local improvement district assessment resulting in a settlement favorable to client.
- Assisted developer client in obtaining approvals for townhome and apartment projects in Seattle and Bellevue.
- Assisted developers in development projects, including:
- The 6,000 unit Ten Trails Master Planned Development in Black Diamond, Washington, including an Environmental Impact Statement appeal and Master Planned Development permit
- A 500-acre commercial master planned development in Tukwila, Washington, including the development agreement, wetland permitting, and subdivision
- The Park 88 apartment complex in Bellevue, Washington
- Securing preliminary plat approval for the 156 lot Tanner Road Subdivision in North Bend, Washington
- Securing a special use permit for a Cowlitz County gravel pit
- The six-unit BGBC Condominium project in Bellevue, Washington
- Over 250 residential lots in several subdivisions and short plats for Murray Franklyn Homes in Sammamish, Redmond, Bellevue, and Kirkland (Washington)
- Site plan approval for industrial buildings as part of the Pacific Gateway Business Park
- The binding site plan approval for the Seattle South Business Industrial Park
- Successfully challenging the adoption of a Thurston County critical area ordinance with a victory at the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board
- Successfully opposing a critical habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act
Related News & Insights
-
Podcast
Jan 29, 2024
The Property Line: Let’s Get this Project Started
-
Recognition
06/01/2023
2023 Chambers USA Names 81 Seyfarth Lawyers as Leaders in Business Law; 36 Seyfarth Practices Also Recognized as Leaders in Their Fields
-
Media Mentions
05/25/2023
Jami Balint Discusses SCOTUS’s Ruling on Restricting EPA’s Regulations on US Wetlands in Bloomberg Law and Law360
-
Recognition
Aug 18, 2022
Seyfarth Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America 2023
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2023-2024)
- Recognized as an "Up and Coming" attorney for Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Washington) by Chambers USA (2022-2023)
- City of Enumclaw Planning Commission, former member
- CREW Seattle, member
- NAIOP Washington, member
- Urban Land Institute, member
- Co-Speaker, "The Property Line: Let’s Get this Project Started," Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 29, 2024)
- Moderator, "Identifying Opportunities in an Evolving Market," BISNOW Seattle Industrial Summit (July 11, 2023)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast – Current Trends and Challenges in Industrial Real Estate Transactions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 22, 2022)
- Moderator, "How Far Will the Last Mile Reach?" Panel, NAIOP Washington State Chapter (November 18, 2020)
- Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, board of directors (2022-present)