Overview
Charles "Dusty" McCreary practices real estate law emphasizing representation of national and regional real estate developers and institutional commercial mortgage lenders. Dusty serves as lead counsel for national banks in real estate secured transactions including mixed use and lifestyle centers, major condominium developments, single family (revolving loan) developments, and hospitals, hotels, shopping centers, apartments and office buildings in Ohio and more than 30 other states. He is Ohio counsel for numerous out-of-state lenders in connection with Ohio projects and lead counsel for numerous national, regional and local developers of retail developments, office buildings, warehouses, single and multi-family residential developments and senior and congregate-care housing.
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Education
Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1978)
Duke University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1975)
Distinctions
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America® – Real Estate Law (1993–2025)
Ranked, Chambers USA – Real Estate: Senior Statesperson (2019–2022, 2024); Band 1 (2011–2018, 2015–2016)
Listed, Super Lawyers®, part of Thomson Reuters® – Ohio, Real Estate: Business (2004–2021)
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated™
Listed, Who's Who in Commercial Real Estate, Columbus Monthly (1995)
Professional Activities
Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers
Past Member, Legislative Committee, the Ohio Mortgage Bankers Association
Past Member, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
Past Member, Urban Land Institute
Past chairman, Legislative Committee, the Central Ohio chapter of NAIOP
Member, Board of Trustees, Community Housing Network
Past Member, Rotary Club of Columbus
Past member, Board of Trustees, The Columbus Academy
Instructor, Capital University New Center for Professional Development, "Commercial Real Estate Finance," 2004 - 2006
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Charles H. McCreary
- office 614.227.2387
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100 South Third StreetColumbus, OH 43215 -4291
Admissions
- Member, American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law; Real Property Section Committee on Loan Practices and Lender Liability; Real Property Section Committee on Mortgages and Other Debt Financing; Leasehold Financing Subcommittee and Subcommittee on Judicial Decisions and Legislative Developments
- Member, American Bar Association; Ohio State Bar Association; Columbus Bar Association (Real Property and Financial Institutions Committees)