Redevelopment Economics

Consulting Services for Urban Redevelopment and Smart Growth:

Brownfields ♦ Greyfields ♦ Transit-Oriented Development 

Historic Preservation ♦ Green Buildings ♦ Sustainable Development

 What We Do...

We use an economic development skill set applied to brownfields and similarly challenged urban redevelopment projects, as follows:

Urban redevelopment with particular expertise in:  

• Brownfields redevelopment
  
• Sustainable development and green jobs
  
• Smart growth
  
• Historic preservation
• Transit-oriented development

Our skills to assist redevelopment projects:

• Policy analysis and strategic economic planning
• Economic and fiscal impact analysis 
  
• Incentives, gap-financing, and financial feasibility analysis
  
• Regulatory assistance particularly with respect to brownfields issues 
• Tax increment financing
  
• Environmental and climate impact analysis
• Market Assessment
• Grant applications

Think of the possibilities

We assisted the developer of the Market Street Power Plant in New Orleans with potential financing sources.

 Gap financing for adaptive reuse - Montgomery Park in Baltimore

What's new?

• New report released: "The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin's Brownfields Investments," co-authored by Redevelopment Economics and the University of Wisconin Fiscal and Economic Research Center
• Evans Paull receives a NALGEP Lifetime Achivement Award as an "Innovative thought leader for brownfields redevelopment and community revitalization"
• Evans Paull presents "Brownfields Metrics - Selling Brownfields through Impact Analysis" at the National Brownfieelds Conferemce
• Evans Paull presents "State Brownfields Incentive Programs - Creative Policy Solutions" at the National Brownfields Conference
• RE report on the federal "Brownfields Tax Incentive - Case Studies and Economic Impact" released at the National Brownfields Conference
• Evans Paull' article on State Super TIF programs "Super TIFs Are Transforming Three Cities," pubished in Planning.
• Policy studies and impact analysis lead to an aggressive brownfields agenda for the Oregon General Assembly
  
• RE completes financial feasibility analysis for TIF district being considered by Borough of Carlisle, PA.   
• RE, working with Cardno-TBE, completes Brownfields-Greyfields Toolkit and In-depth Financial Analysis of Four Sites for Centralina COG.
• Working with ECONorthwest, RE completes "Economic Impacts of Oregon's Brownfields Programs."
• New RE report assesses the New York Brownfield Cleanup Program: the Economic, Fiscal, and Environmental Impacts. 
  
• "Brownfields Tax Incentives for Preservation Projects" published in The Forum.
• Report released: "The Economic, Fiscal, and Environmental Impact of the Massachusetts Brownfields Tax Credit."
• Our article on "Inventing the Brownfields Land Bank" published in Brownfield Renewal.  The complete article is posted here.
• Completed a market assessment for the Philadelphia-based Musicians' Live-Work-Recording.
• CHP, District Energy, and Brownfields Redevelopment report issued.  RE teamed with Pace University Climate Center and Northeast-Midwest Instititute.
• Portland Metro "Brownfields Scoping Project" completed, summarized here and here.