Portfolio

Throughout the year 2024, I worked hand in hand with elected officials, city staff, local stakeholders and residents of the City of Centralia to develop a Community Vision for the future and establish an action plan to meet both present and future community needs.

Click here to view the Centralia Comprehensive Plan

Over the years I have worked with dozens of local governments and businesses in the grant writing process, from project development through grant award closeout.

I have been afforded the opportunity to write and been awarded tens of millions of dollars in grant funding for local governments to complete public infrastructure improvements, housing rehabilitation activities, economic development projects.

These funds have come from numerous state and federal agencies including, the Economic Development Administration (EDA), Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Agriculture (UDSA), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), IL Department of Transportation (IDOT), IL Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity(DCEO), IL Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), among many others.

This Hazard Mitigation Plan was developed with the fundamental goal of informing State and local leaders of the risks and impacts natural hazard events could have on Jasper County, Illinois and further examine how to best lessen the adverse impacts that these hazard events can have on the local community.

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The Enterprise Zone Program is designed to stimulate economic growth and neighborhood revitalization in economically depressed areas of the state through state and local tax incentives, regulatory relief and improved governmental services.

I have assisted in the development and creation of two Illinois Enterprise Zones, (1) the Vandalia/Fayette County Enterprise Zone (2019), and (2), the Flora/Clay County Enterprise Zone (2017).

An Industrial Cluster Analysis explores how groups of inter-related industries drive wealth creation in a region, primarily through the export of goods and services. This analysis examined the regional economic structure of the SCIRPDC Economic Development District, including the counties of Clay, Effingham, Fayette, Jasper and Marion in south central Illinois.

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I provided direct assistance to the City of Flora from Fall of 2019 through 2020 in the development of the plan for redevelopment of approximately 700 acres of underdeveloped or blighted areas of the community. The plan included an estimated $11.5 Million dollars in re-investment into the TIF area over the next two decades.

Click here to view the Flora U.S. 50 Redevelopment Plan

In 2017, I worked with officials of Teutopolis, Illinois in the creation of the Central Redevelopment Area Plan. This plan included the Prairie View Subdivision in the southern portion of the community. This new subdivision has been a one of the many recent success stories in this community of just over 1,600.

Click here to check out the Teutopolis Redevelopment Plan