Funding & Financing
We identify, structure, and secure diverse funding sources for transformative initiatives, combining federal grants, state programs, philanthropic capital, and innovative financing mechanisms to create comprehensive funding strategies that reduce risk, maximize leverage, and ensure projects have sustainable capital structures from inception through completion.
HR&A Advisors worked with Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Planning to demonstrate the economic potential of transforming the abandoned High Line railway into a public park. Through detailed impact analysis and an innovative rezoning strategy, HR&A helped create a world-renowned public space that has generated $52 billion in economic activity and reshaped Manhattan’s West Side.
HR&A is leading a multi-disciplinary team advising the City of Thousand Oaks on a comprehensive downtown redevelopment that includes a new City Hall, adaptive reuse of the existing City Hall, mixed-use development, and public infrastructure improvements. Our market analysis, financing strategies, and procurement support are enabling the City to transform its downtown core.
HR&A advised the Bronx Chamber of Commerce to facilitate a collaborative economic development strategy among 15 major Bronx employers and institutions. Our work resulted in the Bronx Prosperity Plan — a comprehensive framework focused on talent development, strategic marketing, and targeted investments that established concrete pathways to enhance economic opportunity and prosperity across the borough.
HR&A is serving as lead strategic advisor and program manager to New York's ConnectALL Office and supporting the investment of more than $1.5 billion to close the state's digital divide.
