Director, Healthcare Real Estate
looseax@chestnutre.com

Lou is a Fund Partner, as well as special advisor and consultant to Chestnut Funds.  Lou was a co-founder and President of Anchor Health Properties, a national firm devoted solely to the development and management of healthcare facilities for more than 30 years.  

Lou’s development career began at The Rouse Company, an organization nationally recognized not only for development of the new town of Columbia, MD, but also for many landmark urban and suburban retail developments across the country.  Lou was Vice President and Director of New Business Development at Rouse, responsible for all site acquisitions, new retail projects and department store relationships.  He also served as Associate General Counsel of the company, and was formerly associated with a major Baltimore law firm. 

After leaving Rouse, Lou formed a company that began as a developer of retail centers. In the early-1990s, the firm evolved into a developer of innovative healthcare facilities - Anchor Health Properties - a company based on the retail principles of convenience and customer service.  While as President of Anchor, the company developed upwards of 3 million square feet of retail-inspired healthcare space, including medical office buildings, cancer centers, women’s centers, surgery centers, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation facilities, freestanding EDs, and also a major hospital.   Lou was a co-recipient of the 2017 Healthcare Real Estate Insights Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his role as a pioneer in the “retailization” of healthcare. In 2019, Lou was invited by Louisiana State University’s College of Art + Design to lead a new, multi-disciplinary graduate seminar on the implications of ongoing changes in healthcare delivery for students in design, management , business, sociology and law.

Lou received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.