In student housing projects, developers and investors may get all the headlines, but there’s another player that helps bring these communities to fruition: the construction services firm. Among those that specialize in student housing is J4 Development, an almost nine-year-old company who splits its work between multifamily, Section 8 housing, military housing and student housing, which accounts for about 40% of its operations.

Brian Levy, who handles new business development for the Richardson, TX-based company, took some time to chat with the Student Housing Alert recently about the firm and the growth of the student housing business. Both, he says, are going through “tremendous growth right now.”

An edited version of that conversation follows.