Laurie has a true passion for developing innovative strategies with partners to create efficient models for healthcare real estate that are reflective of the rapidly changing care delivery models in the medical, senior housing and active adult industries.
With a diverse development background, Laurie has spent her career balancing real estate investments with forward thinking healthcare trends. During her career, she has developed projects in medical ambulatory care, post-acute rehabilitation, senior housing and market rate apartments. Ms. Schultz has an extensive background in advising healthcare systems and physician providers nationally to strategically expand, and created a predictive demographic model to target ambulatory care site selection. Prior to co-founding Avenue, she led a development team for the western half of the country for the largest skilled nursing development company in the nation focusing on short-term stay rehabilitation properties. Laurie has also developed market-rate, Class A, apartments and senior communities, and directed development for one of the country’s largest and most respected privately held apartment management and development firms.
Laurie is a licensed Indiana Managing Broker with a CCIM Designation and is the Indiana CCIM Chapter 2018 Past-President, and current member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). She was honored to be named a Leader to Watch by Senior Housing News, and frequently is invited to speak at national conferences and on diverse podcasts. Laurie graduated with cum laude honors from Butler University and is an active alumnus from the Lacy School of Business along with various other philanthropic organizations and coaching youth baseball.