David R. Warshauer is an of counsel member of the Real Estate and Corporate Departments in Barnes & Thornburg LLP's Indianapolis, Indiana office. He has more than 25 years of legal and non-legal experience related to real estate development. He returned to Barnes & Thornburg in March 2001, where he practiced from 1984 to 1997, after a time as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brenwick Development Company, Inc. Since returning to Barnes & Thornburg, he has continued to be a principal in several real estate development projects. Prior to attending law school, he served as project planner for the Allen County, Indiana, Plan Commission, where he prepared studies on industrial site selection and appropriate land uses for areas surrounding Fort Wayne.
At Barnes & Thornburg, he represents a broad range of clients in connection with residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use real estate development, including land use approvals, acquisition, financing, leasing and the preparation of community governance documents. He has worked on real estate issues for some of Indiana's largest industrial development projects, including the Subaru-Isuzu automotive facility in Lafayette; the Toyota plant in Princeton; and the Steel Dynamics mill in Butler, Indiana, and was a member of Barnes & Thornburg's team in the arbitration over the status of the Bosnian town of Brcko. Mr. Warshauer has handled numerous land use cases, including approvals of the Qualitech Steel mill at Pittsboro, Indiana, and The Village of WestClay, a 700-acre mixed-use neo-traditional project in Carmel, Indiana, and he has assisted in drafting wind farm ordinances for some Indiana counties.
Mr. Warshauer has written and spoken on a number of topics related to real estate, planning, and zoning. He is a past president of the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council and Little Red Door Cancer Agency.
Mr. Warshauer graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1980 with a degree in urban studies and received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1984 from Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, where he was member of the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice in the state of Indiana. He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, ranked in the first tier as a real estate lawyer in Chambers USA Directory, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®.