The Athens Group
Christopher J. Piper serves as the Vice President of Development at The Athens Group since January 2022, overseeing the Hospitality component of the Naple Beach Club, a Four Seasons Resort. With extensive experience in project management within the hospitality and residential sectors, notable clients include Montage Resorts, Re:Play Resorts, and Walt Disney Imagineering. Christopher has held various leadership roles such as Chief Operating Officer at Calvert Systems and Director of Design and Construction at Opwest Partners. Prior positions include Construction Manager at Walt Disney Imagineering and Director of Vertical Construction at Montage Deer Valley. Education includes a BSD in Real Estate Development from Arizona State University and an AAS in Architecture from Onondaga Community College. Christopher has also contributed to academia as an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University.
The Athens Group
For more than 30 years, The Athens Group has been widely regarded as one of the nation's preeminent developers of luxury resort and urban mixed-use properties—including hotels, golf courses, planned communities and amenitized residential products. Our expertise includes site selection/acquisition, project conceptualization and design, land use entitlements, operator selection, project construction, project finance, residential sales and asset management. Based upon project performance and product recognition, we enjoy an unsurpassed track record of successful mixed-use luxury hotel/resort/residential projects. Projects completed by The Athens Group over this 30-year period have become the top performing properties in their respective markets and have provided superior financial returns to the project sponsors. At the same time, these unique properties have become significant economic generators and social gathering places in their respective markets. This has led to the creation of employment opportunities, substantially expanding the tax base and enhancing the quality of life for each local community. The primary geographical focus of The Athens Group is the mainland United States and Hawaii. We continue to pursue new resort property development opportunities, including various mixed-use luxury hotel and residential destinations. We will continue to focus our resources on meeting the strong market demand for unique resort and hotel properties in high-barrier-to-entry markets.