ABOUT US

Science City Advisors is a business name for D.C. Lyndon & Associates, Ltd., a professional management consulting firm founded by Dennis Lyndon in 1993. It is a compact development advisory firm which specializes in integrating the expertise and resources of private and public sector organizations in solving complex urban development problems, thereby meeting the objectives of the participants as well as enhancing the communities in which they operate.  Where the requirements of the work dictate a larger team, Mr. Lyndon brings together under his leadership specialists from various critical disciplines to make sure all issues are fully addressed in a timely fashion. 

Dennis Lyndon has enjoyed an extensive career both as a senior real estate executive and as an independent consultant.  For over 30 years he has planned and executed or consulted on numerous major real estate development projects (click here for a complete résumé).  Most of his work has been executed in an urban, highly regulated environment and has focused on all aspects of conventional urban and suburban real estate finance and development, often utilizing various forms of public-private partnerships.   

As a commercial real estate development executive, he created an urban portfolio of development projects valued at over $900 million.  This included over 4.5 million square feet of commercial space in seven new office buildings, one of the first successful downtown urban malls, two hotels and various types of residential projects.  

Over the past several years, Science City Advisors has developed a specialty consulting practice focusing on all aspects of the feasibility analysis, design, financing, development, marketing & promotion, and management of projects involving academic expansions, mixed-use projects providing new work, study, and living environments, university related research parks, technology centers, and other research based economic development initiatives.  (Examples of this work are provided in the section entitled Representative Projects) 

Mr. Lyndon is an active member of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

EDUCATION
 
Dennis Lyndon graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a concentration in Nuclear Physics and Electrical Engineering. He then served for 5 years as an officer in the US Navy’s nuclear submarine force.  He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.