Kenneth Kearney

President

Ken Kearney is the founder and president of Kearney Group. Throughout his nearly 20 years of real estate development, Mr. Kearney has grown Kearney Group from a boutique real estate development firm, into a regional leader in the affordable and mixed-income housing industry. Known by friends and associates as “a businessman with a big heart”, Mr. Kearney brings experience, tenacity, a strong work ethic, and solid professional relationships to any project he undertakes.

Mr. Kearney is deeply connected to the communities in which he works. He is an active member of the Board of Directors for Patterns for Progress and Hudson Valley Community Foundations and a member of the Putnam Hospital Center Board of Trustees.

Sean Kearney

Vice President

Sean Kearney joined Kearney Group in 2009. Currently, Sean serves as the Vice President. At Kearney Group, Sean has overseen the development of over 900 units throughout New York State and oversees the management of over 1,300 units of a diverse housing stock which includes; senior, workforce, veteran, supportive, middle-income, market-rate, and artist housing. Recently, Sean’s focus has been on innovative downtown revitalization developments throughout New York State. Sean is also responsible for all contracting and purchasing for Tern Construction & Development.

Sean is an active member in the communities where he works and has been on the Board of Directors for the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Walkway over the Hudson, and Peekskill’s Business Improvement District.

Founded in 1996, the Kearney Realty & Development Group, Inc., is a specialized real estate development, construction, and property management firm located in Somers, New York. Kearney Group began as a boutique development firm renovating multifamily, historic, vacant, and blighted properties in the Hudson Valley. In each case, Kearney Group forged public and private partnerships with state agencies, city officials, county officials, and private investors. This methodology ultimately became a recurring theme and cornerstone of Kearney Group’s strategy in addressing the challenges of adaptive re-use and new construction in urban areas.

Kearney Group specializes in innovative, affordable, mixed-income, and downtown revitalization developments. To date, Kearney Group has successfully completed over $315 million worth of mixed-use, residential, and commercial developments throughout New York State. In addition, Kearney Group has a pipeline of over $150 million of additional projects at various stages of development

Kearney Group strives to establish and maintain deep relationships in all the communities they serve. In 2014, Kearney Group committed to all future developments to be LEED certified.

Tern Construction & Development, a subsidiary of Kearney Realty & Development Group, is a full-service construction company that has extensive experience in all phases of construction including, but not limited to LEED certifications, multi-family housing, mixed-use developments, commercial developments, and brownfield remediation.