Gabriela
Ramos Figueroa

Architecture & Real Estate Development

Bridging design and development — moving between a proforma and a set of drawings without losing sight of either.

Columbia MSRED Columbia M.Arch

About

Design fluency meets
financial precision

I'm a recent Columbia graduate with a dual Master of Science in Real Estate Development and Master of Architecture. My work sits at the intersection of design and development — I pair predevelopment analysis with architectural thinking, moving between a proforma and a set of drawings without losing sight of either.

At AMPOPS, I lead predevelopment analysis for residential and mixed-use projects across New York City, producing feasibility packages with zoning studies, financial modeling, and test-fit programming for projects from 4,000 to 40,000 GSF.

My capstone project, TerraNueva, won the Columbia MSRED competition — a $456.3M, 517-unit affordable housing development on Inwood's waterfront, presented to a jury including Fifth Avenue Committee, Alloy Development, LISC, and NYC Planning Commission.

Bilingual

English & Spanish

NYC

Based in New York

Gabriela Ramos Figueroa

Expertise

Skills & Capabilities

Architecture & Design

  • Autodesk Revit (Certified)
  • AutoCAD (Certified)
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • BIM Coordination
  • Construction Documents
  • Massing & Test-Fits

Real Estate & Finance

  • Financial Modeling & Proformas
  • NYC Zoning Resolution
  • LIHTC / Affordable Housing
  • Market Analysis & Comps
  • Argus Enterprise
  • CoStar / CompStak / ACRIS

Experience

Resume

Columbia MSRED & M.Arch graduate with hands-on experience in zoning analysis, feasibility studies, and financial modeling for residential and mixed-use projects in NYC.

Columbia University

MSRED & M.Arch — Dec 2025

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

B.S. Architecture — Dec 2020

Architectural Designer (Predevelopment Focus)

AMPOPS

New York, NY · May 2024 – Present

Leading predevelopment analysis for residential and mixed-use projects, including zoning studies, financial modeling, and test-fit programming across Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.

TerraNueva — Capstone Winner

Columbia MSRED

New York, NY · Jan 2025 – May 2025

517-unit, 100% affordable mixed-use development. $456.3M TDC, fully publicly financed. Led zoning analysis, massing, unit mix, and all project renderings.

Research Fellow

Mobile Design Box, UWM

Milwaukee, WI · May 2020 – Dec 2020

Community engagement for vacant storefront activation, including bilingual stakeholder interviews and pop-up programming strategies.

Get in Touch

Let's connect

I'm open to opportunities in real estate development and architecture. Let's talk about how design and finance come together to build better cities.