Heidi Majerik ’25

A seasoned real estate development professional, Heidi Majerik is now the President of Gauge Land Development (GLD), a full-service land development consulting and investment company. At GLD, she leads efforts to acquire and entitle land for residential communities across Colorado and provides strategic consulting services to landowners, equity partners, and builders. GLD specializes in all phases of land development—including acquisition, underwriting, market segmentation, product positioning, homebuilder programs, contract negotiations, entitlement, and special district formation and management.

Most recently, Heidi served as Vice President and General Manager of the Denver regional office for Southern Land Company, where she was responsible for the development of Westerly, an 800-acre mixed-use master planned community in Erie, CO, as well as regional land acquisitions.

Majerik has deep expertise in community development, including strategic business planning, underwriting, land acquisition and disposition, market analysis and segmentation, project management, entitlements, infrastructure construction management, public finance (including Metro District formation, tax increment finance, and bond issuance), HOA formation/management, community marketing, talent development, and negotiations.

Prior to Southern Land Company, she held several leadership positions, including Vice President of Business Development for Wonderland Homes, Director of Development for Forest City Enterprises (on the redevelopment of Denver’s former airport, now known as Central Park), and Development Manager for Intrawest US Holdings.

She is a Denver Planning Board member, a past President of the Home Builder’s Association of Metro Denver, a Board member of the Metro Housing Coalition, a member of the Colorado Association of Home Builders Government Affairs Committee, and a past Chair of the Urban Land Institute Community Development Council. She has also served as Chair of the Economic Development Task Force for the town of Silverthorne.

Her career trajectory and civil service reflect her passion for thoughtful city planning and development—and most importantly, her deep commitment to creating housing opportunities.