Webinar: Lessons from the 2024 Terwilliger Center Housing Award Winners

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2025-01-24
2025-01-24T14:00:00 - 2025-01-24T15:00:00
America/New_York

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    Join the Terwilliger Center and the winners of the 2024 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award and the Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing for a webinar showcasing the award-winning projects. Hear from the project leads about barriers they had to overcome, innovative yet replicable financing strategies, successful community engagement practices, and other lessons from their development experience.
     
    The webinar will feature speakers from the development teams of Chattanooga Missing Middle (Chattanooga, TN), The Laureate (Rockville, MD), PAH! Hiland Plaza (Albuquerque, NM), and 425 Grand Concourse (Bronx, NY). 

    Speakers

    Justin Tirsun

    VP of Neighborhood Investment and Community Engagement, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise LLC

    Justin Tirsun is an AICP planner and Vice President of Neighborhood Investment and Community Engagement at CNE. His job includes managing community engagement, leadership building, policy initiatives, localized investment strategy, and outcome measuring. Justin is a certified city planner with experience working in both the public and private realm. He started in architecture and worked for a nonprofit architecture firm along the Texas/Mexico border. He moved to Chattanooga over a decade ago for a job with the City of Chattanooga as a senior planner. He has run a private planning firm that worked with cities as big as 1 million people and as small as 10,000 or less. He was raised in Texas and went to Texas A&M for a Bachelor's in Environmental Design. He left Texas to work and study in New Jersey, where he received his Master's in City and Regional Planning. Justin is driven by a sense of duty. That duty shows through in his desire to help neighborhoods through investment, stronger policies and community building.

    Thomas Brown

    Vice President, Development, Trinity Financial, Inc.

    Thomas Brown, Vice President. Mr. Brown joined Trinity Financial, Inc. in 2015 and serves as Vice President of Development, overseeing the operations of the Trinity Financial New York office. He possesses significant experience in affordable/mixed-income housing and has successfully overseen the development of several complex real estate projects in some of the most distressed areas of New York City. Prior to joining Trinity, Mr. Brown was the Director of Housing Development for the Acacia Network, one of the largest housing, economic development and social service organizations in the Northeast. Before joining Acacia, Mr. Brown worked at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), overseeing the development of projects financed through various funding programs. In addition to possessing extensive experience in working with New York City and New York State agencies, Mr. Brown maintains excellent relationships within the banking and syndication communities. Mr. Brown holds both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s Degree from New York University.

    McLean Quinn

    President and Chief Executive Officer, EYA

    McLean Quinn is President and Chief Executive Officer of EYA, LLC. He oversees corporate management and strategy, investor relations, acquisition and development strategy and project stewardship, and chairs the Partnership Committee. Before being named President in February 2019, McLean served as Vice President of Acquisition and Development, leading acquisition, negotiations, entitlement, underwriting and project stewardship for numerous projects at EYA. McLean is active in ULI and is past participant in the ULI Washington Regional Land Use Leadership Institute and Leadership Montgomery. Before joining EYA, McLean evaluated opportunistic real estate investments for Morgan Stanley's Real Estate Fund (MSREF) in New York and worked in private equity and investment banking at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina. He earned a BA in Political Science from Davidson College and an MBA with Distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an Austin Scholar. McLean lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and two children.

    Christop Stump

    Vice President, Design & Construction, Trinity Financial, Inc.

    Having joined Trinity in 2014, Christoph Stump is a Vice President of Design and Construction, managing all technical aspects of development. With over 20 years of experience in the design and development of affordable housing projects in the metropolitan New York and Boston areas, Mr. Stump focuses on Passive House and high-efficiency, all-electric buildings. He is experienced in Low Income Housing Tax Credit-, Brownfield Tax Credit- and Historic Tax Credit developments and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional.

    Miriam Hicks

    Director of Housing Development, Sol Housing

    Miriam’s passion for affordable housing brought her to Sol Housing in 2018 after more than 20 years working for Dekker/Perich/Sabatini (D/P/S) in Albuquerque. As a licensed Architect, she uses her experience with entitlements, affordable housing projects, construction administration, and design to support Sol Housing’s mission to create exceptional housing communities. Miriam’s coordination and communication as a project manager helps lead the Sol Housing team from funding applications through placing housing communities in service.