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 Rice Management Company on the transformation of a historic Sears store in Houston into a thriving innovation hub, laying the groundwork for a 16-acre mixed-use innovation district built around economic opportunity.
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 is supporting program design and implementation of Amazon's $2 billion Housing Fund, which has included negotiation and underwriting for over 9,000 affordable homes in the Washington DC area.
