About
Twenty years betweenthe pro forma and the public square.
I work at the intersection of real estate, community improvement, and social benefit projects — the places where capital, policy, and people meet.
Background
How I got here
I started in housing finance, structuring deals for affordable and mixed-income projects across the Northeast. The numbers were instructive but never the whole story — the projects that worked were the ones with deep community trust, and the ones that failed almost always failed at the public meeting before they failed in the bank.
Over the next fifteen years I led advisory engagements for cities, foundations, community development corporations, and private owners — running feasibility, sitting in stakeholder rooms, drafting community benefit agreements, and shepherding projects through entitlement on three continents.
Today I keep a small, deliberate practice. I take on five to seven engagements a year. The throughline is the same: real estate decisions are civic decisions, and the best projects make both stronger at once.
How I work
Three commitments
Honest in week one
If the project doesn't pencil or the politics won't hold, I say so on day one. The fee for hearing it later is months of your team's life.
Numbers and people, in the same conversation
Capital stack and community impact are not separate workstreams. They are the same workstream, told to different audiences.
Built to outlast me
Every engagement leaves behind frameworks, relationships, and decision logs your team can run with after I'm gone.
Practice at a glance
20+
Years in real estate and community development
$2.4B
In project value advised across all engagements
60+
Cities, towns, and tribal nations served
5–7
Engagements taken on per year, by design
Begin a project
Tell me about the project that's on your desk.
Most engagements start with a candid 45-minute conversation. No deck, no obligation.
Contact me