Redevelopment Economics

We are passionate about sustainable urban redevelopment - moving jobs closer to underserved areas, establishing vibrant mixed use communities, cleaning up brownfields, and restoring the historic fabric of cities. 

Experience:

Evans Paull, AICP, has 30 years of experience in urban redevelopment, with particular expertise in brownfields and sustainable development.  Evans has been a regional and national leader on policy issues that range from creative brownfields financing to the climate change benefits of urban redevelopment. 

Ev has also assisted numerous individual sites by analyzing market potential, making connections to financing sources, and overcoming regulatory hurdles. 

Ev has a particular expertise in all aspects of brownfields redevelopment.  Having developed and managed the City of Baltimore’s Brownfields Initiative for ten years, Evans has been involved in overcoming formidable financial and regulatory hurdles on numerous successfully redeveloped sites. At Northeast-Midwest Institute Mr. Paull became a national leader on brownfields and a widely recognized expert on impaired property policy issues.

Current and Recent Clients:

• Wisconsin Econoomic Development Association
  
• New York City Department of Environmental Remediation
• Carlisle Borough, PA
• Centralina COG, NC
• State of Oregon Business Development Department
• City of Wilmington
• City of Portland
• State of Washington Department of Ecology
• Musicians' Live-Work Lofts, Philadelphia
• New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
• Massachusetts Chapter of NAIOP
• Massachusetts Economic Development Council
• Portland Metro
• City of Rochester
• City of Ranson, WV
• Maryland Department of Transportation
• Allegheny River Towns Enterprise Zone 
• Maryland Sustainable Development Commission
• The Abell Foundation
• Brownfields Equity Company
• Maryland Department of Transportation
• Market Street Development, LLC
• City of Baltimore, General Services Administration
• Market Street Development, LLC

Consulting Partners/Adding Expertise:

Some of the individual experts and consulting businesses we work with and can add to a team:

• Kathy Blaha Consulting, brownfields to parks and sustainability
• Maul, Foster, and Alongi, environmental consulting, planning and policy analysis
• The Chesapeake Group, economic development and market analysis
• CWS Consulting, economic development with a site selection subspecialty
• STV, Inc, transportation, TOD, and land use planning
• Partners for Economic Solutions, economic analysis
• Goldstein Environmental Group, environmental and brownfields legal services;
• Sustainable Strategies 2050, renewable energy and brownfields redevelopment
• Stromberg/Garrigan & Associates, Inc., strategic planning for community redevelopment
• Gannett-Fleming, environmental and planning services

Why choose us?

• We're small and customer-friendly
• Very competitive rates due to home office and minimal overhead
• Tight timeframe? - No problem

Certifications, Awards and Publications:

Certifications:

• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) 
• Governmment Environmental and Energy Education Certification

Awards:

• NALGEP Lifetime Achivement Award as an "Innovative Thought Leader for Brownfields Redevelopment and Community Revitalization," 2015
• National Phoenix Award (for brownfields redevelopment) 2003 for Montgomery Park
• Governor’s Smart Growth Award for Site Inventorying System, “VU Baltimore,” 1998
• Maryland Chapter American Planning Association, Professional Achievement in Economic Development Award, 1997
• Governor's Citation for Governor's Port Land Use Task Force, 1997
• Mayor's Citation for Brownfields Industrial Redevelopment Council, 1997

Publications:

Most recent articles:

• "Brownfields Tax Incentives for Preservation Projects," The Forum Journal, Winter, 2014
• "Inventing the Brownfields Land Bank," Brownfield Renewal, May, 2013
  

Our work has been published in:

• The Forum (Journal of the National Trust for Historic Preservation),
• Journal of Environmental Practice
• Brownfields Renewal
• Brownfields News
• Northeast-Midwest Economic Review
• Geo-Politics of Energy
• American Planning Association Economic Development Division newsletter.