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Nancy Regelin helps landowners, developers, and creative consultants turn their visions into approvals. Her practice covers land use, zoning, entitlements, development, leasing, permitting, construction, title, foreclosure, and litigation, giving her the ability to guide a real estate project from inception through its full life cycle. 

Nancy’s work stands out because of the relationships she has built over decades with elected officials, agency staff, community leaders, and professional consultants across the region. She has used those relationships to solve problems that more straightforward legal approaches couldn’t. One recent example: she served as outside local zoning counsel for Marriott International on their site selection and entitlement process for their new international headquarters in Bethesda. 

She spent seven years as a design engineer before law school, a background that directly shapes how she approaches complex development projects. Since 1985, she has appeared regularly before governmental bodies and agencies and obtained approvals for commercial and residential developments, subdivisions, special exceptions, variances, text amendments, annexations, and other zoning matters. 

Nancy also managed the firm’s landlord-tenant practice for many years, handling commercial and residential properties across Maryland, D.C., and Virginia. 

In 1999, Nancy founded The Power Conference, a regional women’s business development conference held annually in Montgomery County. She continues to serve as a Power Conference Chair.

The Upton Apartments/Cambria Suites	Upper Rock District
The Metropolitan Apartments	755 Wisconsin Avenue
1900-1902 Chapman Avenue	Marriott International Headquarters