Mr. Tony Piscitello joined USA Properties in June 2020 as President of USA Construction Management, and oversees all aspects of construction. Mr. Piscitello has three decades of construction management experience, most recently with market-rate apartment communities, an expanding focus of USA Properties. Before joining USA Properties, Mr. Piscitello was Vice President of Construction for Mill Creek Residential Trust, where he oversaw the company’s multifamily projects in Portland, Ore., since 2015. The national company recently completed three high-profile market-rate apartment communities in Portland. Mr. Piscitello was also Senior Project Manager for the Holland Partner Group in Vancouver, Wash., a fully integrated real estate company much like USA Properties. Mr. Piscitello, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Construction Management from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, started his construction management career in San Diego, with Centex/MH Golden Construction Company and later B&G Consultants.

Mr. Santiago del Rio joined USA Properties in 2006, and he is actively involved in the day-to-day development and construction efforts of multi-million dollar projects, from planning to completion, placing equal focus on cost, quality, and safety. Before joining USA Properties Fund, Mr. del Rio was Director of Maintenance at Renovation Operations in Northern California for Lyon Apartment Communities (now known as Lyon Living). Mr. del Rio’s ability to build a positive rapport with USA Properties Fund teams, investor partners, consultants- combined with his technical expertise- has allowed him to successfully oversee the development, construction, and renovation of over 4,000 units during his tenure. Notably, this includes the completion of two communities in the South Sacramento area during the Great Recession. Mr. del Rio is also committed to sharing his skills with the next generation of workers in the industry through his work to develop an internship program. Mr. Santiago del Rio graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture and an MBA from CalPoly San Luis Obispo and maintains a California General Contractor’s license.

Patrick McGuirk joined USA Properties Fund as an intern assisting a construction superintendent in 2006, when he was a freshman at California State University, Sacramento. His attention to detail, hard work and task-focused approach as an intern helped him get a position as a construction estimator with the company two years later – while also being a full-time student and junior majoring in Construction Management. Mr. McGuirk has exceled in his positions with USA Properties, and was promoted to Vice President of Estimating and Scheduling in summer 2018. In the critical position, Mr. McGuirk oversees the estimating process, and establishes and oversees the activity timelines for projects. He is deeply involved in each project, from the conceptual stage – including the initial cost estimate – to handling construction-related documents. Mr. McGuirk reviews each project at least three times as part of the estimating process, and oversees bidding for each project with subcontractors. Mr. McGuirk also works closely with USA Properties’ project managers and superintendents ensuring projects remain on schedule and completed on time. He builds a schedule before construction starts, and monitors and tracks the process of the hundreds – or even thousands – of activities of a project. He visits each project, affordable and market-rate apartment communities, a few times every month. By combining on-site visits with the latest management technology, he can keep projects on task.

Longtime contractor Mr. Bob Tarter was promoted to General Superintendent of USA Properties Fund in January 2021, and supervises new construction and renovation projects, Mr. Tarter brings more than four decades of construction experience, including in quality control and safety, to the position. Mr. Tarter owned a concrete construction company for 20 years. Mr. Tarter joined USA Properties as a Maintenance Tech Supervisor in September 2015, but was quickly promoted and assigned to oversee an extensive renovation of the then-recently purchased Brookside Crossings, an affordable family apartment community in Lincoln. Soon after, he managed construction of Newark Station, an affordable senior community in the Bay Area, and followed with overseeing Harvest at Fiddyment Ranch, a market-rate community in Roseville completed in late-2019. He is currently working on an extensive renovation of Sierra Sunrise, an apartment community in the Sacramento region. USA Properties has construction projects underway in the Bay Area, Sacramento region and Southern California. “It’s a great feeling to take a bare piece of ground … and develop a finished project that provides much-needed housing,” he said.

Suzi Tartella joined USA Properties Fund as a Contract Administrator in 2011, and was promoted to Manager of Contracts and Risk Administration in 2018. Before joining USA Properties, Ms. Tartella held positions at Walsh & Forster Inc., Westridge Builders and Clark Pacific. Her three decades of experience – including accounting, business development and marketing, project administration, contracts and risk management – are put to work in her current position.