Lance Patterson, who helped obtain financing for Barry Real Estate Companies Inc.’s biggest projects in the past few years, is leaving the developer.

Patterson, Barry Real Estate’s president and chief operating officer, will depart amid a profound slowdown in the real estate deals that marked much of his tenure with the company. However, he will remain on board through the end of the summer to help Barry Real Estate restructure debt and secure financing for new government projects.

“I feel like I can do something different,” Patterson said. “I’m going to stay in the real estate world. Atlanta is my home.”