International

Adaptation is not only a climate question. It requires finance, design, engineering, and policy to come together around infrastructure investment, land use, housing, and economic development. That is why our climate practice is built as a cross-disciplinary group rather than a specialty bench. Similarly, our decarbonization work charting effective pathways to reducing emissions also requires cross-sector expertise.

Latin America is lining up a new generation of infrastructure deals. The Inter-American Development Bank has been hiring aggressively from the private sector to scale its public-private deal flow.

HR&A played a pivotal role in the launch and development of La Liga, a nonpartisan groundbreaking network uniting mayors across Puerto Rico to drive coordinated, long-term recovery and resilience. Working with the Center for a New Economy, the Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, HR&A shaped La Liga’s structure, leadership, and strategy—creating a platform for cross-party municipal collaboration in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Commissioned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, HR&A led Türkiye's first LVC study — a landmark assessment that built the legal, regulatory, and financial case for land-based transit financing along Ankara's planned metro lines and established a replicable model for metropolitan municipalities across the country.

HR&A's comprehensive market assessment for Kingston's waterfront helped structure a $12 million World Bank loan that will transform 85 acres along Ocean Boulevard with a 1.1-mile multiuse waterfront park. Working with Archer and Associates Consultants for Sustainable Cities on behalf of the World Bank's City Resilience Program, our feasibility analysis and financial modeling positioned this project to improve public space access, foster social cohesion, and attract private investment benefiting over 700,000 residents.

HR&A advanced resilient infrastructure and renewable energy projects — from stormwater management to energy storage — across seven South African cities on behalf of the World Bank.

Muqrin Road is one of Riyadh's most strategically situated corridors — connecting major financial, academic, and cultural destinations across 32 kilometers of the city. HR&A helped translate that locational advantage into a real estate development strategy, identifying how corridor transformation could generate new value, fund infrastructure improvements, and deliver lasting community benefit.

HR&A has led a series of transit-oriented development (TOD) and land value capture (LVC) studies across Latin America on behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank, helping public agencies and multilateral institutions understand how to leverage publicly owned land and transit investment to generate infrastructure funding, attract private development, and deliver community benefits. With an international, multicultural team that understands the complexities and opportunities faced by communities across the region, HR&A is uniquely positioned to support equitable economic growth through transit investment and land-based financing strategies. 

On behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank, HR&A developed a first-of-its-kind dynamic tool to evaluate transit-oriented development potential and project land value capture revenues across a planned 15-municipality commuter rail corridor in San José — delivering a standardized, replicable methodology that can be applied to any station along the line.

HR&A created the business plan and implementation strategy for Konza Technology City (Konza Technopolis), a 5,000-acre innovation hub outside Nairobi that is transforming Kenya's technology sector. Working with the International Finance Corporation for the Government of Kenya, we established the Konza Technopolis Development Authority, structured the city's development framework, that continues provide real estate advisory services that are attracting investment to this catalyst for national growth.

Across two of Türkiye's largest cities, HR&A is helping the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the metropolitan municipalities of Ankara and Izmir unlock new revenue streams for urban rail expansion through the country's first studies on land value capture (LVC).

In Ceilândia, a suburb of Brasília, two metro stations anchor 29 hectares of publicly owned, underutilized land with real potential for transit-oriented development. On behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), HR&A developed a land value capture (LVC) strategy to fund the infrastructure needed to unlock that potential — assessing market and financial feasibility, evaluating existing and proposed financing tools, and delivering tailored implementation recommendations designed for Ceilândia's specific legal, institutional, and market context.