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2013-2014 MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FACULTY
CHRISTOPHER CALOTT, AIA, ULI, LF ’12
is the Director of the MSRED Program.
With over twenty five years of experience,
Calott brings an unusual combination of
excellence in his creative work as an architect
and urban designer as demonstrated
through numerous design awards, dedication
as a teacher at a number of institutions,
and success as a real estate developer
and entrepreneur. His innovative development work has introduced
new mixed-use housing types, “infill” subdivisions, Transit-Oriented Developments,
Community Supported Agriculture, affordable housing, adaptivereuse,
and vibrant public spaces in the communities in which he has worked.
Chris has pursued significant research on the areas of urbanism, housing and
community-based design practices through published investigations tied
to teaching at numerous universities throughout the United States, Mexico
and Latin America. He received the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s
Graduate School of Design in 2011-2012, where he spent the year in residence
investigating affordable housing delivery mechanisms, urban design theories,
Landscape Urbanism, and Green Infrastructure design strategies. He
holds a B.A., Honors, in Urban Theory and Design from Brown University and
his Master of Architecture from Princeton University.
RODOLFO AGUILAR is a Professor of Practice
in the Freeman School of Business at
Tulane University. He has a BS in Architectural
Engineering and a Bachelor and Master
of Architecture from Louisiana State
University, An MBA from Tulane University
Freeman School of Business and a PhD in
Civil Engineering from North Carolina State
University. Rudi is former Chairman and
CEO of Pyburn & Odom, and current Chairman, President and CEO of The
Aguilar Group, real estate appraisers. Rudi teaches within the MBA program
and within the MSRED program as well as in the Executive MBA program
through the Freeman School of Business.
WILLIAM B. BRADSHAW II is co-founder
and president of Green Coast Enterprises
(GCE). For the last decade, he has developed
real estate in North Carolina, Massachusetts,
and Louisiana. His projects have
received numerous awards including a 2001
Maxwell Award of Excellence from the Fannie
Mae Foundation. As a GCE co-founder,
Will was named an Echoing Green fellow for
2008-2010. GCE’s work has also been celebrated by Social Entrepreneurs of
New Orleans, All Day Buffet, CityBusiness, Fast Company magazine, and Business
Week, which named Bradshaw and co-founder Reuben Teague as two of
the 25 most promising social entrepreneurs in the United States. Bradshaw
holds a PhD in City Planning with specialties in Regional and Urban Economics
and Sustainable Community Development from MIT. He also holds Masters
Degrees in City Planning and Real Estate Development from the MIT and degrees
in Physics and Cross-Cultural Studies from Davidson College.
MAURICE COX is a nationally respected
community designer and leader of the public
interest design movement. Maurice is the
director of the Tulane City Center as well
as the associate dean for community engagement
at the Tulane University School
of Architecture. Cox, studied architecture at
Cooper Union in New York. A co-founder of
the national SEED (Social, Economic, Environmental, Design) Network, Cox
served as design director of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington,
DC from 2007-2010. In that capacity, he led the Mayor’s Institute on
City Design, the Governor’s Institute on Community Design and oversaw the
award of more than $2 million a year in NEA design grants across the United
States. Fast Company business magazine named Cox one of America’s “20
Masters of Design” for his practice of “democratic design.” Cox’s appreciation
of the civic process led him to serve as city councilmember and then mayor of
the City of Charlottesville from 1996-2004.

MARILYN FELDMEIER possesses over
eighteen years of experience in designing
and implementing architectural, interior,
landscaping and campus planning projects
for hotels and resorts. In her role as
Project Lead and Designer she has been
responsible for master-plan programming,
development, and design as well as project
coordination of design, production and
construction teams. Marilyn’s work can be found at The Broadmoor, Colorado
Springs, CO; The Don CeSar, St. Petersburg Beach, FL; Kingsmill Resort,
Williamsburg, VA and The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WV. In addition,
she is a Registered Architect consulting on resort and hotel properties with
TAG Studio and as a principal of Studio FG. Marilyn was educated at Tulane
University where she received a Bachelor and Master of Architecture. She
also attended the London School of Economics where she earned a Master of
Science in City Design and Social Science.
MICHAEL GROTE is a real estate developer,
architecturally trained designer and builder
focused on community design and development.
Mike has worked on the Gulf Coast
in both Mississippi and Louisiana since
2006 with various organizations in several
capacities including university instruction,
architecture, construction management
and development. Since 2008 Mike has
worked for Alembic Community Development and is currently the Director
of Building Programs managing the design and construction aspects of
Alembic’s developments. Mike holds a Master of Building Construction with
a Minor in Community Planning from Auburn University and a Bachelor of
Architecture from the University of Houston.
JONATHAN LEIT is a real estate developer
and urban planner focused on working on
revitalizing neighborhoods. Since 2007, he
has served as Director of the New Orleans
office at Alembic Community Development,
where he develops affordable housing
and mixed-use properties and provides
capacity building and development services
to nonprofit organizations. Jonathan
holds a Master in City Planning from MIT, a Graduate Certificate from the Center
for Urban Redevelopment Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Design, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Columbia University.
ANDREW LILES, AIA LEED AP is a native
Mississippian, is an adjunct lecturer at the
Tulane School of Architecture. He is also
an owner of his own practice in New Orleans.
Professor Liles’ education includes a
Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi
State University, and a Master of Architecture
from Tulane University. Professor Liles
focuses practice in the southeast with projects
ranging from large commercial to regional residential work. A LEED Accredited
Professional, he helped found what became the Mississippi Chapter
of the US Green Building Council. He serves on both the Executive Board and
the Board of Directors. Professor Liles has been a project architect for both
award winning and sustainable architecture, and now returns to New Orleans
with his wife, Charlane, and their children, Amos and Owen.
KELLY LONGWELL is a Director in the New
Orleans office of Coats Rose, where she
concentrates in the areas of real estate,
affordable housing and taxation. She has
represented developers and investors in a
wide variety of projects including hotels,
apartment complexes, office buildings, residential
condominiums and retail commercial
space. Kelly has been selected for inclusion to Woodward White’s Best
Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law. Kelly has experience in real estate
development, corporate and partnership taxation and tax-exempt organizations.
Her experience with real estate development has focused primarily
on representing and advising private developers and investors as to federal
tax incentives, including the historic rehabilitation tax credit, the low-income
housing tax credit, facade donations and real estate syndications. Kelly has
also been involved in the structure of various real estate transactions, with
an emphasis on maximizing the tax benefits. The diverse structures utilized
by the parties to the transaction include Section 1031 tax-free exchanges of
property, sale/leaseback transactions, tax increment financing, and equity
syndications. Kelly holds a LL.M degree in Taxation from NYU, a JD from LSU
and a Bachelor’s degree from Tulane University.
NEAL MORRIS is a real estate developer
and attorney. He received his B.A., M.B.A.,
and J.D. degrees from Tulane University. He
is a Harvard University Loeb Fellow. During
his year in residence in 2009-2010 Neal
researched blight elimination strategies and
lectured on affordable housing finance. In
2000 Neal founded Redmellon Restoration
and Development. The firm is a mission-driven company that focuses its efforts
on large urban infill projects consisting of single-family and two-family
homes. In 2006 Redmellon was awarded the Innovation in Housing Award
from the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency. In the past several years Redmellon
has renovated or developed over 400 units of affordable housing in New
Orleans. Redmellon’s current project is the historic rehabilitation of 51 units
of formerly blighted singles and doubles in the Carrolton, Hoffman Triangle,
and 7th Ward neighborhoods utilizing low income housing tax credits, historic
rehabilitation tax credits, and NSP2 funds.
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BYRON J. MOUTON is an established architect,
educator, New Orleans native,
and alumnus of Tulane University. He has
traveled a path from New Orleans through
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to
professional practice in Central Europe,
and eventually back home. He now finds
himself committed to building his locallybased
practice BILD Design, in conjunction
with his academic role as Professor of Practice at Tulane’s School of Architecture,
Director of the school’s design/build program URBANbuild and as
the recently appointed ‘New Day Professor of Social Entrepreneurship’. With
more than 20 years of experience in the fields of architecture and construction,
several award-winning projects, and exposure in national and international
publications, Byron is committed to critical assignments that exemplify
a collaborative planning approach and a dedication to the regional remediation
of New Orleans. Over the past 14 years, as Principal of BILD, Byron has
explored alternative models for affordable housing within the context of the
city’s sometimes peculiar setting, and he continues to offer the city progressive
options for domestic growth in the face of on-going challenges.
CASIUS PEALER is Principal of Oyster Tree
Consulting L3C. Oyster Tree specializes in
supporting public agencies and nonprofit
developers using green building as an additional
tool to achieve long-term affordable
housing solutions. Casius has 14 years
of community development experience, including
five years as legal counsel for public
housing authorities across the country
implementing mixed-finance redevelopment projects. Casius served as the
first Director of Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building Council and
is a Senior Sustainable Building Advisor for the Affordable Housing Institute
in Boston. Casius is 2011 Chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)
Housing Committee and is a board member of the Association for Community
Design, a national nonprofit organization of community-based architects and
designers. He has been published in the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing
and Community Development Law as well as the AIA Journal of Architecture
and Architectural Record, and is a regular speaker at professional conferences
nationally. Casius holds a Masters in Architecture from Tulane University’s
School of Architecture and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
JASON NEVILLE is an urban planner and
redevelopment professional whose passion
is working together with people to
make cities better. Jason is currently Senior
Planner at the New Orleans Redevelopment
Authority, developing strategies
for sustainable redevelopment of NORA’s
vacant lot portfolio. Jason also worked as
planner and project manager for the Community
Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles from 2007-2012, focusing on
industrial land use, Los Angeles River Revitalization, the City of Los Angeles’
clean technology attraction strategy, and community redevelopment in
South Los Angeles. He received an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies
from the University of New Orleans and a graduate degree in Urban Planning
from the University of Southern California.
AMBER SEELY is an urban redevelopment
professional engaged in real estate development,
community development, urban
planning and public policy. For five years
she focused on real estate development for
a quasi-public entity and a non-profit organization.
Building on her real estate finance
and underwriting work, Amber became a
certified real estate market analyst and consulted with a variety of clients to
strengthen real estate development proposals throughout the New Orleans
region post-Katrina. She is now the Interim Director of Economic Development
for the Regional Planning Commission, coordinating long-term planning
in the five-parish region. Amber holds a Masters in Urban Policy from The
New School and an Urban Redevelopment Certificate from the University of
Pennsylvania School of Design.
CORNELIUS PAYNE is the Lead Real Estate
Developer for the Housing Authority
of New Orleans. He previously worked as
a Project Manager for Gulf Coast Housing
Partnership (GCHP), a local non-profit
real estate development company, where
he developed over 200 units of affordable
and mixed-income housing in Baton
Rouge and New Orleans. Prior to GCHP,
Payne also worked as an Assistant Project Manager at Enterprise Community
Partners (ECP) in their Gulf Coast Office based in New Orleans. While
at ECP, Payne redeveloped the Lafitte Public Housing Redevelopment. Additionally,
Cornelius has held a number of positions throughout his career,
with the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the FDIC, and
the Southern University System, Office of the President. Mr. Payne received
a Master of Science with Distinction in Real Estate Development from Columbia
University in New York City; and a Bachelor of Science degree in
Business Economics and Finance from Southern University in Baton Rouge.
ALEXANDRA STROUD has over twenty
years of experience as a licensed architect
and real estate professional specializing in
financial and feasibility analysis, development
implementation and project management.
Urban Focus LLC, her company,
provides strategic real estate development
consulting services for communities and
municipalities. Her experience includes affordable housing financing, mixed
income and transit oriented development. Working in communities in New
Orleans and the surrounding region, Washington, DC; Jacksonville, Boston,
Detroit, Minneapolis-St Paul, Maryland, Northern Virginia and Oklahoma City,
she has worked as a real estate professional and developer financing complex
and large scale development opportunities in urban areas. Ms Stroud’s firm is
based in New Orleans, Louisiana with an office in Washington D.C. Ms. Stroud
holds a Master of Architecture from Tulane University and a Master of Science
in Real Estate Development from MIT. Ms. Stroud is a LEED Accredited
Professional.
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JOHN STUBBS served as Vice President
for Field Projects from 1990 until 2011 at
the World Monuments Fund (WMF) in New
York, where he directed scores of the organization’s
projects across the world. He
conducted over two dozen international
planning symposia and charettes, and was
instrumental in the establishment and early
management of WMF’s famed Watch List
of endangered sites program. Prior to the WMF, Stubbs served for twenty
years as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Historic Preservation in Columbia
University’s Graduate Program in Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He
has also taught preservation documentation and design studios at both Columbia
and the School of Architecture at Louisiana State University (LSU). He
holds a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, a
Bachelor of Science in Construction Technology with a minor in Architectural
History from LSU, and attained post-graduate training as a UNESCO Fellow
at the International Centre for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural
Property in Rome. In 1978, John Stubbs worked as a Historical Architect for
the Technical Preservation Services Division of the U.S. Department of the
Interior in Washington, D.C. administering federal tax incentives for rehabilitating
historic buildings. He later went on to serve as Assistant Director of
Historic Preservation Projects at Beyer Blinder Belle in New York for ten years,
and as a Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America. He is a founding
board member of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation to which
he was also named its chairman in 2008.
JONATHAN TATE is principal of Office of
Jonathan Tate (OJT), an architecture and
urban design practice in New Orleans. His
projects and research encompass investigations
into opportunistic urban development—informal
settlements, infill housing,
ecological infrastructure, etc.—and their
spatial and cultural implications in cities
worldwide. His works with OJT, and in previous
offices, includes a wide variety of project and program types, and have
been extensively published nationally and internationally. Jon is a graduate
of Auburn University, where he also participated in the Rural Studio, and the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
SARA MEADOWS TOLLESON is a senior
project manager at Gulf Coast Housing
Partnership, a New Orleans-based nonprofit
real estate development company. Her
portfolio at GCHP has included affordable
multifamily, commercial and mixed-use
projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Previously,
she was the Deputy Regional Director
for Gulf Coast Rebuilding for the Office of
Federal Coordination in post-Katrina New Orleans and the Program Coordinator
for Keep Austin Beautiful in Austin, Texas. Sara Meadows received her B.A.
in Art History from the University of Mississippi and holds a Master’s of Public
Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT- Austin. She was a 2007-
2008 Fellow in the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Urban Redevelopment
Excellence (CUREX) fellowship program.
PRISCA WEEMS is Founder and Managing
Partner of FutureProof. Prisca works
with the development community to integrate
sustainable design and LID practices
in residential, commercial and government
sector projects with aggressive sustainability
goals, as well as providing strategy
and oversight in the design and execution
of community and regional-scale initiatives.
She has practiced as a design professional in the US and Europe since 1995
and is currently focused on sustainability master planning and green infrastructure,
including working with municipalities to develop policies and funding
structures to support progressive development practices. Prisca holds a
Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture, a postgraduate
degree in Advanced Environmental and Energy Sciences from the
Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales/University of East London, and is
a LEED Accredited Professional, Living Building Ambassador, and Enterprise
Green Communities National Technical Assistance Provider.
JOY WILLIG has over twenty years of experience
as an attorney and senior advisor
specializing in real estate development and
finance, with significant expertise in legal
analysis, negotiation and problem solving.
She has served as Senior Vice President
and Counsel and as a senior executive of
multiple state agencies in New York State,
as Advisor to the Director of Real Estate Planning and Development for the
Housing Authority of New Orleans, and Development Consultant to HRI Properties.
Ms. Willig has been instrumental in the financial and legal structuring
of complex multi-family housing in New York City, New York State and New
Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Willig has a JD from Cardozo Law School and a BS
from Cornell University.
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