Transactions
We structure and execute complex financial arrangements that advance affordable housing, mixed-use development, and community development initiatives, leveraging deep expertise in underwriting, capital markets, and public-private financing to evaluate risk, optimize funding sources, negotiate terms, and close transactions that maximize impact, with a proven track record of facilitating over $1 billion in housing investments that ensure long-term viability and create lasting community assets.
HR&A has guided Vanderbilt University since 2023 in its efforts to catalyze Nashville's innovation economy. Through real estate strategy, market and feasibility analysis, developer partnership selection, and project management support, we are helping Vanderbilt to transform approximately 40 acres of underutilized campus land into a dynamic mixed-use neighborhood with cutting-edge spaces for innovation. In addition, we supported the creation of the Nashville Innovation Alliance to strengthen cross-sector partnerships, accelerate research commercialization, and grow talent pipelines to cement the region’s role as a national hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.
HR&A advised Vanderbilt University in developing a plan to transform 40 acres of underutilized campus land into an innovation district that will catalyze Nashville's innovation ecosystem and support research needs. We supported the university to develop a vision and land use program for a dynamic mixed-use neighborhood that strengthens both academic excellence and regional economic development. HR&A managed the master planning process and is currently supporting Vanderbilt in selection of a development partner to move the project towards implementation.
HR&A guided the Transbay Joint Powers Authority through the procurement of a facility management and programming partner for the $2.26 billion Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco. Our strategic structuring of the public-private partnership and solicitation process led to a successful agreement with an interdisciplinary team led by Lincoln Property Company that met all of the Authority's operational and financial criteria.
HR&A led an interdisciplinary team working with the Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer to develop New York City's first Internet Master Plan, addressing the digital divide affecting nearly one-third of city households. Our comprehensive strategy established frameworks for public-private collaboration, governance, and financing that enabled the City to commit $157 million toward expanding affordable broadband access to 600,000 New Yorkers, including innovative procurement approaches that experts have praised as among the nation's boldest universal broadband initiatives.
