Paul J. Silvern

October 10, 2011 / Comments Off on Paul J. Silvern

Paul J. Silvern draws on over 30 years of non-profit, public, and private professional experience, including serving as the Partner in charge of HR&A’s Los Angeles area office between 2007 and 2020, and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors 2007-2022.

 

In his time with HR&A, he has directed the analysis of major regional airport expansion plans, military base conversions, television and film studio expansions, hotels, office parks, high-rise office buildings, industrial developments, shopping centers, hospital complexes, university campus expansions, urban residential developments, mixed-use developments, and a wide range of planning initiatives. His work includes:

  • A 5.2 million square foot Specific Plan to guide future academic facility, housing and commercial development at the University of Southern California’s University Park campus;
  • Redevelopment of the Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood into a major mixed-use development including 3,000 housing units, regional retail, office and public uses;
  • Two iterations of $3 billion Specific Plans to redevelop the NBC Universal entertainment studio, office, retail, theme park and hotel complex in Los Angeles;
  • The addition of two new theme parks at Disneyland in Anaheim, California;
  • 2.4 million sf hotel, office and retail redevelopment of the Wilshire Grand, the first new high-rise office building to be built in downtown Los Angeles in over 20 years;
  • The Keck Graduate School for Applied Life Sciences, the seventh member of the Consortium of The Claremont Colleges;
  • Reconstruction of Saint John’s Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, in the wake of severe building damage caused by the 1994 Northridge earthquake;
  • Three new high-rise office buildings, and a 400-unit high-rise multi-family residential development in Century City, one of the most prestigious commercial office locations in Los Angeles;
  • 10 million square feet of new commercial and residential development around Union Station in the City of Los Angeles;
  • The Red Building (400,000 sf), the final phase of the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood;
  • The 6.6 million s.f. Coyote Valley Research Park in San Jose, on behalf of a developer and business consortium including Cisco Systems, Inc.; and
  • Master Plans and redevelopment alternatives for Los Angeles International Airport, O’Hare International Airport, and San Diego International Airport.

Paul also has extensive experience in all aspects of housing policy and housing development, ranging from design of municipal regulatory programs to design and administration of affordable housing production programs and real estate advisory work on major private housing developments.

Paul’s clients include major development organizations as well as numerous local governments, redevelopment agencies, institutions and metropolitan planning organizations.

Paul earned a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies, with Honors from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Judith Taylor

October 9, 2011 / Comments Off on Judith Taylor

Judith combines rigorous economic analysis with deep community engagement to create real estate, economic development strategies, and policy that strengthen communities and help existing residents and businesses benefit from public investments.

 

As a Partner in HR&A’s Los Angeles office, Judith brings over 20 years of experience in public policy and real estate advisory, specializing in development that delivers transformative change. By aligning market feasibility with community priorities, Judith helps clients navigate complex issues from displacement to equitable economic development and strategic real estate planning throughout Southern California and the nation.

Judith excels at real estate market feasibility analysis that enables communities to capture value from major development projects while maintaining affordability and local ownership. For example, in her advisory role with the City of San Jose on Google’s Downtown West negotiations, Judy helped secure a $200 million community benefits package with a major portion of community-directed funds. She is currently supporting Los Angeles county’s implementation of the comprehensive Marina del Rey for All plan, identifying the best use of real estate and water assets and helping to consider the financial implications of proposed uses. Judith’s real estate work also includes leveraging transit-oriented development (TOD) for community benefit with projects like City of Los Angeles’ Expo Light Rail Phase Transit Neighborhood Plans’ community benefits framework and vision planning for Metro’s proposed West Santa Ana Branch Light Rail.

Judith designs anti-displacement strategies that deliver bold and actionable solutions that meet community needs and give residents a voice at the table when shaping the future of their neighborhoods. In her planning work in North Sacramento, Judith partnered with a local community-based organization to develop a resident-driven action plan to create economic opportunity, while addressing displacement pressures. In San Diego, she analyzed eviction trends and, in Los Angeles County, she explored rental pricing and cost factors for rent stabilization to develop recommendations to expand market-balanced tenant protection programs in both locals, demonstrating how data-driven policy analysis can strengthen housing security. Judith also helps communities understand and demonstrate displacement pressures, as she did building out an anti-displacement toolkit for Saint Paul, Minnesota. Judith’s anti-displacement work aspires to enable market growth and investment while ensuring that existing residents and businesses can participate in that growth.

Judith’s economic development projects are focused on leveraging local assets to strengthen regional competitiveness while creating opportunities for all. She helped to develop and is currently finalizing the County of Sacramento Office of Economic Development’s five-year economic development strategic plan focusing on job retention, business innovation, and targeted marketing that addresses both emerging opportunities and existing inequities. In East Palo Alto, she is working with the City to develop a strategic framework to guide targeted investments for sustainable economic growth.

Judith also helps regions better understand and accelerate their transition to a green economy through green economy initiatives that channel environmental investments into local economic opportunity. For the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, she helped facilitate the collaboration for a new Regional Workforce Partnership across the county and led the development of an initial green jobs roadmap to champion strategies to overcome workforce challenges in sectors like electric transportation. In the Central Valley, Judith has been leading the way as part of S2J2 California Jobs First initiative to support communities in optimizing the community benefit from utility-scale clean energy investments.

Stan Wall, P.E.

July 23, 2011 / Comments Off on Stan Wall, P.E.

Stan Wall brings 20 years of public-private real estate experience in the Washington Metro Area market.

 

Stan Wall joined HR&A as a Partner in our Washington D.C. office in August 2015 after holding several senior positions in the mid-Atlantic region. In his previous posts, Stan worked across the entire real estate project lifecycle including strategy, planning, finance, development, and construction.

Prior to joining HR&A, Stan was the Director of Real Estate and Station Planning at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the second busiest transit system in the United States. In this role, he reinvigorated the agency’s transit oriented development (TOD) program by helping them leverage their transit infrastructure to support housing and economic development. In the past three years, Stan helped to secure Board approval to pursue 16 new TOD projects. Eight of the 16 approved locations are now in the negotiation and/or solicitation stages; four more are in the final stages of pre-solicitation planning; and the remaining four are in the early planning stages. As these projects are implemented in the next 3-4 years, they will begin to yield significant financial and ridership benefits for the agency.

Stan also helped to enhance WMATA’s relationship with local jurisdictions, which in turn served to ensure a responsiveness to the local communities and to present a consistent, unified message to interested developers. Through these efforts, coupled with a refinement to the agency’s development policies and procedures, WMATA became known as a better business partner to the development community. This extended beyond TOD solicitations to include an increased responsive to developer inquiries in all other aspects of the office such as permits, easements, and other information requests.

Stan is also owner and founder of Wall Development Group, a Washington, D.C. based development firm focused on sustainable development, urban infill, and community-oriented projects. With Wall Development, Stan led a multi-disciplinary team to advise the District of Columbia on a development strategy for the Poplar Point Redevelopment project – a 110-acre site directly across the Anacostia River from the Nationals stadium and the Capitol Riverfront area. The site presented tremendous planning challenges including mitigation/restoration of existing wetlands, elevating the property out of the floodplain, relocation of Federal facilities, creation of a 70-acre park space, and construction of significant infrastructure to better connect the site to the surrounding established neighborhoods. Stan’s team of consultants advised the District across all of these areas and created a development strategy to advance the project forward.

Previously Stan worked with Arup, an international firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists with a focus on innovative projects in Washington D.C. While at Arup, he assisted the firm in the creation of a new business initiative focused on assisting owners and investors of real estate portfolios create value through sustainability initiatives.

Stan also worked for a number of years at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in Washington D.C. as a Vice President in the firm’s public institutions practice. While at JLL, he assisted public sector clients in maximizing the strategic and financial value of their real estate assets through public-private initiatives. Clients included: the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, Maryland; and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Prior to Jones Lang LaSalle, Stan was a Manager with Deloitte Consulting, where he provided strategic advisory services to Fortune 500 companies in the areas of real estate, construction, and capital program management.

Stan is a registered Professional Engineer and began his career in Lend Lease’s construction management group, where he was an on-site project engineer focusing on healthcare projects in the Washington-Baltimore region.

Stan received a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In 2013, the Washington Business Journal recognized Stan as one of the region’s Minority Business Leader Award winners.