Services
Each engagement is bespoke. The categories below describe the kinds of questions I'm asked to answer most often.
01 Real estate advisory
From initial highest-and-best-use analysis through entitlement and capital structuring, I serve as an embedded advisor — turning a parcel and a hypothesis into a fundable, buildable plan.
Typical deliverables
Feasibility analysis, capital stack design, entitlement strategy, RFP and partner selection support, board-ready briefings.
02 Community development
Engagements that center the people who will live near, work in, or be displaced by a project. I design the public process, the partnership structure, and the agreements that make a community say yes — and stay glad they did.
Typical deliverables
Stakeholder mapping, public engagement plans, community benefit agreements, governance structures, post-occupancy evaluation.
03 Social benefit projects
Program-level work for foundations, public agencies, and CDFIs. The questions are bigger than a single site: where to deploy capital, how to measure impact, and how to keep the work honest at scale.
Typical deliverables
Program design, impact frameworks, capital deployment strategy, technical assistance for grantees, evaluation reports.
How engagements run
01
I read everything you send and meet your team. I leave with a sharpened question and a memo on what I think is actually being asked.
02
Two to four weeks of feasibility, stakeholder, and political analysis. You receive a written diagnosis and a recommended path.
03
We execute the path together. I'm in the room for the meetings that matter and on call between them.
04
Frameworks, decision logs, and relationships are documented and transferred. You should be able to run without me.
Most engagements start with a 45-minute conversation. Bring the question keeping you up.