Urban Planning And Financial Services


In today’s more sophisticated real estate climate, only a team with proven experience can prepare strategies that meet new market requirements while overcoming the challenges brought by robust competition, urban redevelopment, and poorly positioned neighborhood districts. Catalyst offers a multidisciplinary team of planners, economists, urban designers, and redevelopment specialists focused on creating economic development and urban planning strategies that induce capital and market interest. Our award-winning efforts have included assignments with over 50 municipalities, transit agencies, housing authorities, lending institutions, and private land owners, and has been celebrated by the Urban Land Institute, Congress for the New Urbanism, International Council of Shopping Centers, National Development Council and others. Our work includes market assessment, land use programming, master planning, urban design, code and guideline creation, marketing documents, horizontal cost analysis, TIF and sales tax revenue analysis, project financial analysis, implementation planning, and master development. The Catalyst Group has MBE Certification through the NCTRCA.

Creative Approach

Nationally recognized planning and urban design

Consensus Focus

Customized community outreach strategies

Public Private Strategy

Successful master development and reinvestment

Implementation Focused

Planning and analysis informed by real world success

Financial Analysis

Experience with TIF, MMD, PID, NMTC and other tools

Innovative Plans

Over 100 national, regional and local industry awards

Recent Consulting Projects