Davis J. Cable, CRE
Senior Advisor

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Dave Cable is a real estate professional, passionate conservationist, and experienced nonprofit leader. In addition to his work with Mirador, he is also managing director of Springside Partners, a real estate valuation and consulting firm.  During a career spanning almost four decades in the commercial real estate industry, Dave has led clients, institutions, and nonprofits through the highest and lowest of cycles.

Dave spends his spare time hiking, paddling, and biking.

Representative Experience

  • Provided real estate appraisal review and valuation consulting services on complex properties across the US

  • Led all aspects of TreesCharlotte, Catawba Lands Conservancy, and the Carolina Thread Trail, conservation nonprofit agencies serving the Piedmont region of NC

  • Assisted in raising more than $35 million in private and public capital for conservation projects in the Charlotte region

  • Served as senior real estate strategist for Wachovia’s real estate business units and institutional investors

  • Developed PRISM, a web-based market risk assessment system for internal Wachovia teams and investors

  • Led Capital Markets loan and leasing $110 billion portfolio analysis, including exposure, concentration levels, and problem asset projections

  • Analyzed real estate collateral, market, and economic conditions affected by concentrated collateral markets

  • Developed valuation policies and procedures, vendor scope agreement, enhanced appraisal management system, and staff training

  • Appraised commercial, industrial, agricultural, conservation easements and special-use properties in northern New England for mortgage lenders, US Park Service, local, state, and federal agencies

  • Provided significant court testimony, consulting experience, and appraisal review

Professional Affiliations

  • Counselors of Real Estate, 2000-present

  • Appraisal Institute, Chicago 1990-present

  • Licensed as Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, NC (1998-present) and VT (1987-present)

  • Society of Municipal Arborists, member 2012-present

  • International Society of Arboriculture, professional member 2014-present

  • Municipal Forestry Institute, February 2012

Community Affiliations

  • Board member, WDAV, public radio station, Davidson, NC, 2017-present

  • Davidson Lands Conservancy, 2014-present

  • Redlair Foundation Board, 2012-present

Honors and Awards

  • Counselors of Real Estate Creative Thinkers Award for the Carolina Thread Trail, 2013

  • Outstanding Individual Award, NC Urban Forestry Council, 2014

Education

  • University of Vermont, MS, 1980

  • Bowdoin College, AB, 1978