Celeste Tanner is the co-founder, President and Chief Development Officer of Confluent Development. Bringing over 20 years of industry experience, she steers the firm’s execution across all phases of commercial real estate development, successfully delivering custom and complex projects that create significant value in their respective communities. Celeste has overseen more than $2 billion in commercial development projects across a diverse portfolio of industrial, office, retail, multifamily, and mixed-use development projects.
Under Celeste’s guidance, Confluent has delivered award-winning projects while working with some of the country’s most sophisticated clients including Target, FedEx, Starbucks, Mikron Corporation, Vectra Bank, and Charter Communications, among others.
In her previous role as director of real estate development at Opus Development Company, Celeste led the real estate project team for its Denver office and played a key role in the ground-up development of more than 5 million square feet of commercial and multi-family space.
Celeste holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver, is an alumnus of the Downtown Denver Partnership Leadership Program and has been awarded for her outstanding achievements from organizations such as The Denver Business Journal, CREW, NAIOP Colorado and Bisnow.
Giving Back in Business and Community
Celeste has represented the development industry both locally and nationally through her leadership in NAIOP, where she previously served as the chapter president for Colorado. As a long-term member of NAIOP’s national executive committee and the current chair-elect of the 20,000-member organization, she serves as a voice for the development industry across North America.
Celeste also contributes her leadership well beyond the industry and into the community. She currently serves as the chair of Renewal Wheat Ridge (RWR), an Urban Renewal Authority committed to improving the visual aesthetics and environmental aspects of the city of Wheat Ridge, where she participated in the Authority’s largest bond issuance in its history, as well as supported efforts to create a new plan area facilitating the redevelopment of the 100-acre former Lutheran Hospital site, a generational redevelopment opportunity within the City. Additionally, Celeste consistently volunteers in areas that support both strong minds and bodies for children, including youth athletics, classical education programs, and early childhood centers in rural parts of the state. She also provides day-to-day support for her family’s own private initiative to provide “hand-up” services to local homeless and at-risk members of the community, providing leadership and mentorship programs that have led dozens of individuals to self-sufficiency.