About John Auchenbach
John Auchenbach, Senior VP of Underwriting
John Auchenbach has over 35 years of diversified real estate development, investment and construction experience. He has served as the President of two diversified commercial real estate development and investment companies, and a residential development company. His commercial career encompasses over over 3 million SF of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use development, construction, leasing and asset management. He has also developed over 7,000 acres of commercial and residential land, 6,000 residential lots, and 1,000 single family homes.
Since 2015, John has sourced and underwritten over $200 million of Class A self-storage development and investments throughout the United States.
John has also served as the CFO of a commercial development company and has $250 million of acquisition, development, and construction financing experience. He has managed joint venture development and sourced commercial real estate investments for a $1.2 billion real estate investment opportunity fund, and his real estate advisory and consulting experience encompasses the underwriting, business-planning and investment analysis of $1 billion of mixed-use real estate development ventures.
Earlier in his career, John served as a consulting high-rise structural engineer (P.E.) with extensive experience in the design, engineering, and construction of commercial and industrial buildings.
Throughout his career, John has managed both commercial and residential construction divisions within the development companies he served as CEO. He brings to 1784 Holdings an extensive experience in the planning, design, value engineering and construction of complex commercial buildings.
John Auchenbach is a graduate of the The Pennsylvania State University Five-Year Architectural Engineering program and the Drexel University MBA (Finance) program. He is a licensed Arizona real estate broker with extensive real estate services and investment sales brokerage experience.