President,
Morgens Property & Investment Co.

Jim Morgens, immediate past Chair of The Trust for Public Land’s Georgia Advisory Council, has been president of Morgens Property & Investment Company since 1978.

Through MPIC and in partnership with others, he has developed and marketed a wide range of real estate projects, including single-family communities, office parks, and small retail centers and office buildings. Concurrently, he has been officer and director of a number of publicly held real estate and building related companies, including Great American Management & Investment, Inc. (1981-82) and National Gypsum Co. (1993-95), and two private companies, Data Pro, Inc. (1988-93) and Tel-Care, Inc. (1993-96). 

He currently serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations in addition to chairing the Philanthropy Committee of TPL’s Georgia Advisory Council, including the Atlanta Center for Self-Sufficiency (employment assistance for the homeless), Odyssey (summer academic enrichment program for disadvantaged Atlanta school children), the High Museum, and the Carlos Museum. 

Jim received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1968 and a BA from Stanford University in 1965. He and his wife Sally live in the Buckhead. They were both early supporters of the BeltLine through the Trust for Public Land.

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