Turnbuckle was founded by Emilie Baratta, a ten-year development veteran of mixed-use, LEED Gold and Silver infill projects in Denver, Baltimore and Michigan. She has specialized in complex public-private partnerships and their associated financing mechanisms, green buildings, brownfield sites and varied infill developments. She has underwritten dozens of deals in order to determine feasibility and developed over one million square feet of sustainable urban real estate projects with budgets totaling more than $100 million. Projects include 600 recently-completed and 300 under-construction residential units within the City and County of Denver. Emilie has worked on mid-rise wood frame, high-rise concrete post-tension and complicated adaptive reuse projects. Immediately prior to establishing Turnbuckle, Emilie served as the Director of Finance and Development at Zocalo Community Development, the premier local developer of LEED Gold apartment buildings. In 2012, the small company was awarded Developer of the Year by the Denver Business Journal.