A native New Mexican, Jay Rembe has over 25 years of experience in the New Mexico commercial and residential real estate industry. He began his career as a commercial real estate broker with CB Commercial in 1993 where he specialized in retail brokerage. In 1997, he joined Maestas and Ward Commercial Real Estate as a partner, where he continued to specialize in tenant/landlord representation and investment opportunities. In 2001, he created Infill Solutions Urban Design and Development which in 2012 merged into rembe urban design & development.
As a founding board member of the Urban Land Institute’s New Mexico chapter, Jay helped promote the organization’s goals of education, sustainability and best practices in land use and development in New Mexico.
Jay graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) with a degree in Spanish. Fluent in Spanish, he lived in Cordoba, Spain as a student in 1989, and in Quepos, Costa Rica in 1991, where he managed a sport fishing company. Jay is married to Jolene Brunacini Rembe and has a son Jack, 18, and a daughter Claire, 15. In his free time, Jay and his wife Jolene enjoy watching and traveling to their children’s competitive soccer matches.
Jay’s affiliations include:
- Founding board member, ULI New Mexico
- Board chairman of Los Poblanos Inn and Cultural Center
- Qualifying broker at Rembe Properties
- Co-President for West Downtown Business District
- Committee board member for DPM Executive Committee for City of Albuquerque
- Albuquerque Railyard Advisory Board member
- Member of the selection committee for Albuquerque downtown grocery story RFP
- Member of the selection committee for the El Vado Motel on Central Avenue
- Former trustee at Bosque School