Redevelopment Economics

Skills and areas of expertise:

• Community revitalization planning
• Green jobs opportunity analysis
• Industrial area planning
• Promoting redevelopment in under-served/low-income areas
• Commercial area planning 
• Tax Increment Financing - district planning and feasibility
• Tax Increment Financing – policies to align TIF with smart growth
• Eminent domain and eminent domain restrictions
• Incentives for affordable housing and sustainable development

Download RE Qualifications sheet for strategic planning and policy analysis.

 Portland Metro Brownfields Strategy: Cannery Square, Sherwood, OR  

Redevelopment Economics teamed with Maul-Foster to produce the "Brownfields Scoping" report for Portland Metro. The report analyzed a series of policies and financial incentives and their potential to accelerate redevelopment of sites (like Cannery Square in Sherwood, OR, pictured above).

See this Metro announcement, and this article.

 Past Projects:

• Advised the State of Iowa relative to Proposals to Make Strategic Investments in Brownfields Redevelopment;
• Authored economic development strategy for PlanBaltimore;
• Prepared “Industrial Protection Zone” proposals for Baltimore City Planning Department;
• Prepared a Brownfields Redevelopment Toolbox for Disadvantaged Communitiesfor US EPA;
• Wrote a state guide for producing a better alignment of TIF Financing with Brownfields Redevelopment for Smart Growth America.