We have a fairly full summer of outstanding clients to work with, great opportunities to learn, and be in all kinds of geographies.
1. Park City, UT’s Office of Sustainability is our client and czb is managing their visioning process as this world class mountain resort community goes into its comprehensive planning effort this fall. czb has been working with Jo Schull from Stone Yamashita and Lindsey Mosby from Phillips on this project. czb provides a final report to Park City in July.
2. At the opposite end of the market, czb is finishing its housing analysis for Venango County, PA, and is working on their NSP II application to HUD to address housing vacancy and help establish a floor in their housing market.
3. In late June czb will kickoff work on a citywide neighborhood revitalization effort in Jamestown, NY, an aggressive effort underwritten by both the city and the Gebbie Foundation.
4. czb is finishing a year long analysis of all the markets in the state of Alaska for the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, during which czb designed HFC’s new universal QAP, one of the most exciting projects we have ever been fortunate to work on. Karen Pooley, PhD and Al Tetrault have led this effort, which springboarded the learnings captured from our work two years ago with the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.
5. We are super excited to start work this July in Atlanta with Chris Shea of EBDI and Mindy Turbov, both of whom have been retained by the Anne E. Casey Foundation, our client, in this creative effort to address weak market problems near downtown. David Boehlke and Karen Pooley will be working intensely on this effort.
6. czb is delighted to be providing weak market advice and analytics to EDBI in their continuing efforts to revitalize a large section of East Baltimore around Johns Hopkins.
7. In July czb will start work in Ascension Parish, Louisiana to evaluate market conditions. Our partnership with Winston Associates on this project is very exciting to us, continuing our long standing relationship with our friends at JWA (Boulder).
8. We have now finished our work in Santa Fe, NM. Having been a part of the effort to help diversify that city’s economy, and build an infrastructure of economic development decision-making is work we are all proud of. If there’s a better client, we have never met them. Santa Fe’s Housing and Community Development efforts are worth every city paying attention to.
