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JAKE LOVELESS For the better part of a decade, Kansas City’s multifamily market has been on fire, a streak some thought

case, you can just forget about it. She’s the recently-named CEO of The Miller Group—her father was one of the founder’s sons—but DNA didn’t earn her that role. Performance did: “My greatest accom plishments at The Miller Group involve helping the company grow both financ ially and culturally,” she says. “While serv ing as our president of the Personal Risk Management division, I helped the depart ment’s revenue grow 900 percent in under four years. After that, I purchased shares in the company and joined the executive team. I then served as vice president of the Employee Benefits division, where I moved the department from a negative margin to profitable growth within roughly two years.” Culture, she says, is as impor tant as financial performance, so she has would end years ago. That it hasn’t is in part to the work of Jake Loveless, vice president for Griffin Riley Property Group, leading business development, investment evaluation, entitlements, contractor and government relations, project management, operations, and more. Over the past five years, he said, “We have built or repositioned 682 apartment units throughout the metro and have another 583 units of for-rent housing starting construction in 2023, with plans to add as many as 800 more units in 2024.” As if that’s not enough, he oversees all facets of the firm's retail, office, and warehouse invest ments. Loveless, 38, started off with Summit Homes in 2010, working for GRPG founder Fred Delibero and ris

stepped in to help build a positive, support ive, caring environment where employees feel so valued that they often refer mem bers of their own families to join her fam ily’s team. As with Gen2, “I am a highly driven individual who values family, faith, my community and giving back,” Manning says. “These values guide me in all aspects of life and were influenced by my parents and grandparents. From a young age, they taught me to be generous, thoughtful, and humble.” She and husband Chris have three children, ages 6, 7, and 10, and her civic history includes a seat on the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation’s regional advisory council for nearly five years and before that, board and commit tee roles with the Central Exchange and the Kansas City Symphony. ing up from project manager to director of business development at the region’s largest home builder, structuring bulk lot purchases, new land development projects and other investment opportu nities. Outside of work, he sits on Lee’s Summit’s planning commission and the boards of Drumm Farm and Saint Luke’s Hospital East, all while working with wife Emmie to raise three chil dren, ages 6 to 13—and coaching the baseball teams for his two boys. “Giving back to the community is a huge prior ity for me and my family,” he says, and that has helped drive Summit/GRPG’s efforts to raise millions in funding for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Boys & Girls Club of Kansas City, Hope Haven of Cass County and more.

AMBER MANNING You know that saying about what Generation Three does to a family-owned business? Well, in Amber Manning’s

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