Sydeny Smith
Sydney Smith Project Manager
Sydney, originally from Chattanooga, TN, has lived in New Orleans for three years. With over 5 years of experience in Real Estate, she focuses on Commercial Real Estate development and Affordable Housing. She has overseen the construction of 337+ housing units and aided in over $500M in commercial real estate financial
closings to fund new projects..
Sydney is responsible for overseeing projects from pre-development conception to turnover to property management. Her duties include preparing funding applications, financial modeling, managing timelines, and communicating with internal and external stakeholders, including construction and architecture teams.
Before joining Iris, she worked with Gulf Cast Housing Partnership as a Project Analyst, gaining experience in Affordable Housing. Prior to that, she spent 3 years working as a Transaction Analyst for Hutton, a private equity developer in Chattanooga, gaining experience in commercial real estate.
Sydney holds a B.A. in Psychology from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA. She aims to provide affordable housing in areas that promote a healthy quality of life and a comfortable living environment with amenities that promote the same.