Track Record
Work measured by what we built, not only by what closed.
The Consortium is retained for the hardest part of a project's life — the predevelopment, capital-formation, and policy/legislative/regulatory work that determines whether an ambitious idea ever reaches the market.
Development & Capital
Real estate development, clean energy, and community economic development.
The predevelopment and capital-formation work that moves ambitious projects to market.
Sports-Anchored Mixed-Use District — Midwest
Lead sponsor-side strategic advisor
Role. Lead strategic advisor to the sponsor. Scope. Predevelopment strategy, capital readiness, data room, capital markets coordination. Status. Advanced to institutional market readiness; active in capital markets.
The Consortium served as lead strategic advisor to the sponsor of a 450-acre sports- and entertainment-anchored mixed-use development adjacent to a major international airport — a project that had been more than a decade in the making. In approximately nine months, the Consortium brought it to institutional market readiness: a 12-plus section institutional data room built to withstand lender and investor diligence; a lender-ready underwriting package with the pro forma reconciled across multiple rounds of institutional review; a full NDA suite and disclosure architecture prepared in draft and finalized under the sponsor’s securities counsel; a documented predevelopment vendor schedule and multi-year working-capital budget; and the identification and engagement, on the sponsor’s behalf, of a national capital-markets platform as exclusive intermediary. Advisor-team coordination spanned AmLaw 200 counsel, a global engineering and design firm, and a leading venue operator. The engagement demonstrates the Consortium’s defining capability: taking a large, complex, long-stalled project and making it institution-ready at speed.
BLR Center for Flourishing Communities — Englewood Net-Zero Initiative
Lead consultant and capital strategy lead
Role. Lead consultant; capital stack, community benefit plan, and philanthropic strategy. Scope. Illinois DCEO Equitable Energy Future Grant — net-zero planning across single-family, multifamily, and commercial development in Englewood, Chicago. Status. Application scored 82.7 against a 75-point threshold; award decision pending.
The Consortium served as lead consultant to the BLR Center for Flourishing Communities on the Englewood Net-Zero Integrated Planning Initiative — an 18-month strategy to drive net-zero development across one of Chicago's most disinvested communities without displacing its residents. Working alongside a nationally recognized workforce and community-development organization and an experienced Chicago real estate developer, the Initiative was designed to deliver a Community Benefit Plan, multifamily and single-family retrofit and rehabilitation programs, commercial development, connected workforce development, and shovel-ready single-family new construction on a portion of Englewood's city-owned vacant lots. The Consortium led project/program development— capital stack development — blending low- and no-interest and forgivable loans, grants, equity, and mezzanine financing with New Market Tax Credits, TIFs, and Opportunity Zones — along with the Community Benefit Plan, a tenant anti-displacement and rent-stabilization structure, and philanthropic and sponsor engagement strategy. Submitted to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's Equitable Energy Future Grant program, the application scored 82.7 against a 75-point qualifying threshold. The Center has not yet been notified of a funding decision.
City of Tuskegee — Coalition for Green Capital
Municipal Investment Fund
Strategy designer and proposal lead
Role. Designed the city’s market-building strategy and led the competitive proposal. Scope. Six-part clean energy market-building plan under CGC’s EPA-funded Municipal Investment Fund. Status. Selected as a Qualified Community; the city did not proceed to grant execution.
The Consortium designed and led the City of Tuskegee’s successful response to the Coalition for Green Capital’s Municipal Investment Fund — a program funded through CGC’s $5 billion National Clean Investment Fund award under the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The Consortium’s design set out a six-part market-building strategy: a municipal net-zero emissions code environment with supporting zoning, permitting, and incentives; a networked microgrid; a virtual power plant; jump-started EV charging infrastructure; a state-decisionmaker education and stakeholder framework; and a portfolio of clean energy financial products developed with regional financial-services partners. The strategy was anchored by a coalition including Tuskegee University, the Utility Board of Tuskegee, the Macon County Commission, and the regional development commission. CGC's Municipal Investment Fund initially targeted up to two Qualified Communities per state and was later narrowed to one per state — and the Consortium’s design for Tuskegee was selected as a recipient. The city ultimately did not proceed to grant execution, due to change in administration and other matters. The selection reflects the competitiveness of the strategy the Consortium designed.
Tuskegee University — HBCU Net-Zero Renewable Platform
Senior advisor, project development team
Role. Senior advisor on the project development team; external affairs, partnership and stakeholder development. Scope. 650 MW solar-plus-storage platform and a proposed net-zero endowment fund serving Tuskegee University and up to nine additional HBCUs. Status. Stalled pending resolution of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund’s legal cycle.
The Consortium served as senior advisor on the project development team for the Tuskegee University Net-Zero Initiative — a project conceived to secure clean energy investment for the University and, through a first-of-its-kind endowment structure, for up to nine additional Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The initiative was designed around 650 MW of solar generation with accompanying battery storage in a virtual power plant environment, sited on University land, with lease proceeds seeding a Net-Zero Endowment Fund that participating HBCUs could draw on for climate-focused campus modernization. The Consortium led external affairs and partnership and stakeholder development, and contributed to the project’s financing framework, including proposed participation structures involving the serving utility and a green-capital lender. The project was structured to draw on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and has stalled while the GGRF proceeds through its legal cycle.
Single-Family Homeownership Development
Development leadership — principal’s founding record
Role. Development leadership of a community and economic development effort. Scope. Six new single-family detached homes with developer and homebuyer subsidy structures. Status. Completed.
The Consortium’s development capability traces directly to its principal’s work leading a community and economic development effort in Englewood, a low-income community on Chicago’s South Side. That effort delivered six new single-family detached homes — two-story, plus basements and garages — through a public-private structure built to satisfy the financial partner’s requirement that the homes be pre-sold. Meeting that condition required developing both developer subsidies and homebuyer subsidies, and identifying qualified buyers during the predevelopment phases — which was accomplished, with the added benefit of allowing buyers to pre-select their finishes. The structure was flexible enough to allow one homebuyer to apply a Section 8 housing voucher toward her mortgage costs. This early work established the development-and-capital discipline — subsidy engineering, buyer readiness, and financial-partner requirements met in a hard market. The Consortium brings this experience to complex projects today.
Policy & Legislative
Federal policy shaped, and implemented, at the highest level.
From financial-services reform to the largest clean energy investments in the nation’s history.
Client Representation — Energy & Financial Services
Federal policy and government affairs
Scope. Federal energy and financial-services policy representation across a career spanning major industry and community finance.
Over the course of his career, the principal has represented and advised leading institutions across the energy and financial-services sectors — including major investor-owned utilities and national energy trade associations spanning the electric, natural gas, and nuclear industries, as well as mission-driven financial institutions serving underserved communities, including national CDFI and minority-banking organizations. This range is deliberate: the practice can represent the largest industry incumbents and the community-finance institutions working in the same markets with equal credibility — and understands how policy outcomes land on both.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act — Financial Services Modernization
Legislative Counsel to a Member of Congress
Role. Legislative Counsel to a senior Member of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Scope. Financial-services reform, including the PRIME Act provisions authored by the member and a member of theU.S. Senate. Result. Provisions shepherded to enactment; landmark financial-services legislation.
As Legislative Counsel to a senior Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the principal advanced the Member's priorities through final passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act — one of the most consequential financial-services laws of its era — including support of the Member's role on the bill's conference committee, and authorship of the PRIME Act provisions within it. The work established a foundation in the committee-level legislative process — drafting, negotiation, and coalition management — that anchors the Consortium's policy practice today.
Dodd-Frank Act — Financial Services Government Affairs
Senior government affairs, major financial-services trade association
Role. Senior Legislative Counsel, government affairs, at a major financial-services industry trade association. Scope. Federal financial-services policy through the financial crisis and drafting of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Result. Represented the industry’s interests across one of the most consequential financial-services legislative efforts in modern history.
Through the financial crisis and the development of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the principal served as Senior Legislative Counsel in government affairs at a major financial-services industry trade association — representing the industry’s interests through a period of sweeping regulatory change. The role demanded fluency in complex legislation and regulations, coalition and stakeholder management, and the translation of technical regulatory detail into clear positions for decision-makers. The work demonstrates a policy record that spans both sides of the table — congressional counsel and industry advocacy — across two of the defining financial-services laws of the past three decades.
Inflation Reduction Act — Demand-Side Energy Provisions
Senior policy leadership, national demand-side organization
Role. Senior Vice President for Policy, Research, and Analysis, leading demand-side legislative strategy. Scope. Demand-side energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. Result. Led what was characterized as the largest single legislative investment in demand-side energy policy in recent U.S. history.
Representing a leading demand-side energy policy organization in Washington, the principal led the demand-side legislative strategy that shaped major provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act — an effort characterized as the largest single legislative investment in demand-side energy policy in recent American history. The work spanned the coalition-building, technical drafting, and negotiation required to move demand-side priorities into a generational climate and energy law.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — $27 Billion, with the 40% Provision
Provision lead
Role. Led organization effort securing the Fund and authored key provisions. Scope. The $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and its low-income and disadvantaged-communities requirement. Result. Secured the Fund and led the provision directing 40% of benefits to low-income and disadvantaged communities.
The Consortium’s principal led his organization's effort to secure the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and authored key provisions — including leading the requirement that 40% of the Fund’s benefits flow to low-income and disadvantaged communities. It is the single clearest example of the Consortium's defining capability: not commenting on policy from the outside, but writing the provisions that move capital to the communities that need it.
IRA & IIJA — Implementation
Implementation leadership
Role. Led implementation of provisions across two federal laws. Scope. Selected provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Result. Translated enacted legislation into deployable programs.
Beyond authorship, the principal led implementation of various provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — the work of turning enacted legislation into deployable programs. Implementation is where legislation succeeds or fails: it requires reading statutory intent precisely, engaging the agencies standing up new programs, and helping the market understand how to access what the law made possible. This experience directly informs how the Consortium advises clients navigating the incentive structures those same laws created.
The common thread: the hard part, done well.
Across three decades and two practices — development and capital, and policy and legislation/regulation — the role has been the same: to do the work that determines whether an ambitious project gets built, whether the capital behind it closes, and whether a policy objective is achieved. Each practice stands on its own; together, they let the Consortium take on work few firms can. To discuss a project, an engagement, or a proposition of your own, engage the Consortium.
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