Otto Beatty III, Esq.

Otto Beatty is an entrepreneur, attorney, and real estate investor. Mr. Beatty has over 25 years of real estate experience as an investor, owner, landlord, consultant, attorney and developer with experience in the single-family, multifamily, industrial warehouse, and the office/coworking asset classes and various types of private lending.  Since 2013, he has been the owner operator of Intelligent Office of Columbus, a shared office, coworking and business services facility in Downtown Columbus. Currently, Mr. Beatty is the co-developer of the recently completed Parkwood Headquarters, an Affordable/Workforce housing project on the site of former Ohio Baptist Convention Headquarters in the Near East Side of Columbus. The site has recently been placed on the national registry of historic places by the National Park Service and will be marked with an Ohio History Marker.  He also continues to consult and advise with non-profits, small independent businesses and land owners, and churches in the areas of land use and development.  He is an active member of the Small Scale Developer Forum, Incremental Development Alliance, and the Urban Land Institute.

Mr. Beatty serves as a member of the City of Columbus Downtown Commission ,which is the reviewing and oversight body for zoning, adjustment, and signage for all Downtown Columbus projects.  He is a former Commissioner on the City of Columbus Development Commission and the North East Area Commission. He is a graduate of New York based Project REAP, real estate associate program and serves as its local market leader for Ohio and Michigan. He has received additional training at Rice University’s Real Estate Investment and Development executive education program.   



Prior to entering into full-time entrepreneurship, Mr. Beatty was a Partner in the national law firm of Baker & Hostetler LLP   He was also the Chair of the Ohio Elections Commission, overseeing campaign finance laws in Ohio and member of the Ohio Lottery Commission.  Otto is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Michigan Law School.