Real estate developer.
A ground-up pair delivered together: a 6-story commercial building and a 12-story residential building, each approximately 250,000 SF — commercial and residential rising as one coordinated program.
Creation of an animation headquarters campus across two buildings totaling approximately 256,000 SF — a full campus program for a major entertainment client.
Approximately 250,000 SF of first-generation buildout for WarnerMedia — a flagship media workplace program delivered in Culver City.
Two ground-up 8-story buildings plus warehouse retrofit work, approximately 163,000 SF combined, for media and gallery tenants including Sirius XM, Wix, Roc Nation, and the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.
Rodney James Ross is a real estate developer, based in Los Angeles, whose project record runs to 40 projects and approximately 2.48 million square feet delivered or managed — and a simple conviction: the best projects, careers, and companies are planned, not chanced.
His featured work includes Habitat on Los Angeles' La Cienega corridor, the Netflix Animation headquarters campus in Burbank, WarnerMedia at Ivy Station in Culver City, and a ground-up media-district cluster in Hollywood — alongside education campuses and residential projects across Southern California, delivering campuses for major technology, media, and entertainment clients.
He holds an MBA and a Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) from the University of Southern California, and is a certified PMP and LEED AP BD+C with additional certifications in real estate finance and project management. Finance and building are usually split between two people; I do both — underwriting the deal and seeing it built.
At home, he and his wife are raising two young kids on the same principle he builds by: a big career and a deeply present family are not a trade-off — they are a plan.
End-to-end leadership of mixed-use and commercial developments — site, team, budget, and schedule held as one problem.
Reading a site and a city honestly: zoning, risk, and the path from raw diligence to an entitled, buildable project.
USC-trained in real estate finance — pro formas that tell the truth, including the deals that don't pencil.
Principal-level involvement from programming and design development through construction and close-out.
Program delivery for major technology, media, and entertainment campuses — headquarters-scale buildouts delivered end to end.
Development operations — the reporting, rhythm, and friction removal that keep big teams moving as one.
The full career record — every project and credential — lives on LinkedIn. That's the best place to reach Rodney about development work, speaking, or collaboration.