John J. Carney is an attorney, real estate owner and developer with extensive experience in the management, investment and development of real estate and oil and gas ventures.

He participated in the redevelopment of historic buildings in the Cleveland Historic Warehouse District, including the Grand Arcade, which consists of 91 residential units and 13,000 square feet of commercial space; the Perry Payne building and its 93 residential units and 8,500 square feet of commercial space; the 100-unit Water Street Apartments, which opened in 1997 and Bridgeview Apartments consisting of 247 apartments, 15,000 square feet of commercial space and 220 indoor parking spaces.

Carney and his partners rehabilitated the old Colonial Arcade and Euclid Arcade, now known as the Colonial Market Place, into a mixed-use facility including a 175-room Residence Inn, 40,000 square feet of retail space and 120 indoor parking spaces.

In Cleveland’s neighborhoods, Carney and associates acquired and rehabilitated a 144- unit garden apartment on the near west side, rehabilitated the 133-unit Rockefeller Park Towers on Ansel Road and Kamms Plaza Shopping Center in the West Park area.

Carney is the managing general partner of numerous Ohio partnerships formed to drill for gas and oil in the state. The partnerships have drilled more than 150 oil and gas wells.

As an attorney with Baker, Hostetler & Patterson (now Baker & Hostetler) from 1969 through 1974, he specialized in real estate law and syndication. In 1975, he was a founding partner in the law firm, Carney & Carney.

Carney, his family and business associates own and manage office buildings and shopping centers in Cleveland and Columbus, as well as interests in office warehouse and apartments.

The family is an active partner in Crocker Park, a mixed-use, new development which will contain approximately 600,000 square feet of lifestyle retail, 400 apartments and 200,000 square feet of office.

Carney has received numerous awards, including the Greater Cleveland Growth Association’s Downtown Achievement Award (1993), the Cleveland Restoration Society’s Award of Excellence (1994 and 1997), the American Institute of Architects’ Award for Exceptional Accomplishment (1994 and 1996), the Northern Ohio Live Awards of Achievement in Restoration (1996-1997) and the Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban Environment (1997), Downtown Cleveland Alliance Ruth Ratner Miller Award for 2006 and Westside Ecumenical Council Lamplighter Award in 2006.

He has served as a board member of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority since 1998 and his term ends in 2011. He served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Downtown Cleveland Partnership and was a chairman of the Downtown Property Owners Council. In 2005 he was elected first Chairman of the Downtown Cleveland Improvement Corporation and currently serves on its Board and on the Board and Executive Committee of the Downtown Cleveland Alliance.

Carney has served on the Cuyahoga County Democratic Executive Committees, the Rocky River Civil Service Commission and the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. He was a member of the State of Ohio Oil and Gas Board of Review, a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Oil and Gas, a member of the Visiting Committee of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, a Board member of the Metro Health System, a Board member of Playhouse Square Foundation and on the Visiting Committee of the Maxine Levine College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.

Carney earned a bachelor’s degree in 1966 from Williams College in Williamstown, MA, and a juris doctorate in 1969 from Columbia University Law School in New York.