Guy Benn
Program Manager, Transit-Oriented Development, TriMet
Portland, OR
Guy Benn is a commercial real estate professional based in Portland, Oregon, responsible for managing TriMet’s TOD program. Originally from the UK, Guy has a Master’s in Real Estate and started his career in London working in brokerage. Before moving with his family to Portland in 2019, Guy spent 11 years in New York working on a wide range of investment and development projects across the US for foreign clients. He also established the US platform for a residential developer with projects in New York, Boston, and Chicago. Guy joined TriMet in 2020 to re-establish its TOD program and build its project pipeline.
Guy is passionate about the built environment and the opportunity TOD offers to deliver inclusive and equitable communities that benefit the environment and create opportunity. He shares TriMet’s goal to create destinations around transit infrastructure and wants to use the East County Library project to demonstrate how partnerships can enhance public TOD investment.