People
The people who commit to a project are the people who deliver and operate it, from first site visit to years of ownership.
The principals
Founder / Managing Partner
Co-founder of Alcove Development. Dustin runs projects end to end: due diligence through asset management, capital stack, bank relations, and construction, following senior roles in community banking and business development at R.D. Johnson Excavating.
Founder / Partner
A founding partner raised in the excavating, real-estate, and property-management businesses. Jeremiah leads site investigations, feasibility, incentives, permitting, and approvals, and runs day-to-day project execution.
Partner
GW specializes in historic rehabilitation and downtown revitalization using historic tax credits, and works with communities to attract industrial growth, data centers, and digital infrastructure. A real-estate investor, multifamily developer, and founder of Cornerstone Property Management, with more than a decade of experience.
Chief Financial Officer / Partner
Chief Financial Officer since 2021 and partner since 2025. Scott leads financial reporting, project costing, and tax strategy, after more than 27 years as CFO across residential and commercial construction companies.
Founder / Emeritus Partner
Founder of R.D. Johnson Excavating. After the company's sale to a public company, Roger continues with Alcove as Emeritus Partner.
Senior Staff Accountant
More than twenty years in property-management accounting, including fifteen years supporting large multifamily portfolios. Chelsea leads project accounting and back-office administration.
Staff Accountant
More than twenty years of accounting experience. Jennifer supports project accounting and back-office administration.
Analyst
Three years with Alcove Development, with prior experience at national general contractor Brinkmann Constructors. Hands-on construction and development experience spanning project management, quality control, and site compliance.
Since 2016
Since 2016, Alcove and its principals have developed, built, and managed residential, multifamily, mixed-use, medical, and commercial real estate across the Midwest.
Alcove self-performs development and asset management, with day-to-day property management through affiliated Cornerstone Property Management and vertical construction through its general contractor, AU Construction. That structure keeps one team accountable from the first site visit to years of operation.
Alcove both builds to sell and builds to own, and it still owns and manages many of the neighborhoods and buildings it has delivered. Aligning Alcove’s incentives with the long-term health of a place is the point.
Operating model
Identifying sites and partners, and testing early whether a location can carry the program.
Land, entitlement, utility, and market review before a project is committed.
Rezoning, platting, and municipal approvals, carried alongside design coordination.
Budgeting, the capital stack, bank relationships, and incentive districts, settled before ground breaks.
Vertical construction through Alcove's general contractor, managed to schedule and budget.
Bringing a finished building to occupancy, with leasing and day-to-day management through an affiliated management company.
Long-term ownership, financing relationships, and property management after delivery.
Alcove builds to sell and builds to own. At this stage a project is either released or kept and managed for the long term.
Public partnership
Much of Alcove’s work is delivered in partnership with Kansas municipalities: through entitlements, rezoning and platting, incentive districts, and public-private partnerships that make attainable housing and neighborhood commercial space feasible.