Expertise
Downtown and suburban downtown redevelopment, financing progressive real estate, real estate development, metropolitan development trends, strategic planning for downtowns and suburban downtowns
Background
Current Positions
Professor of Practice and Director of the graduate Real Estate Program at University of Michigan;Founding Partner of the Arcadia Land Company, real estate development with "new urbanism" in Southeast Pennsylvania and Independence, MO.
Past Positions
Managing Partner and Co-owner of Robert Charles Lesser and Co., an international real estate consulting firm
Education
M.B.A, Harvard University, 1976;B.A. Swarthmore College, 1972
There's demographic evidence; there's consumer research evidence; but probably the most compelling evidence is the price premium people are willing to pay to live in a walkable urban place, that the survey's show anywhere from a 40% to 200% price premium on a price per square foot basis for a walkable urban place as oppose to a competitive near by drivable suburban place.