Courtney Haff:
CLASS OF 1964
Lincoln High SchoolClass of 1964
Portland, OR
Courtney's Story
Courtney A. Haff, AICP, Ph.D., is President of Haff Associates, Inc., an economic development, finance and planning firm he established in 1996. He has 35 years of experience in development, finance, real estate and planning on a local, national and international scale. He specializes in the provision of real estate development and planning services, including:
¿ Development services, site and market analysis for senior and affordable housing, transit-oriented development, large scale resort and entertainment projects, health care and educational facilities and the reuse of urban land
¿ Public finance and corporate finance as an investment banker and financial advisor to cities, states and public authorities and private not-for profit educational institutions, affordable housing, health care and cultural facilities, special districts and private corporations throughout the United States
¿ Urban planning and policy analysis
He received the David C. Lincoln Fellowship in Land Value Taxation in 2003-4, preparing the working paper ¿Land Market Understanding as the Basis for Smart Change in Lower Manhattan¿ and has recently received a 2006 fellowship from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, dealing with the financial aspects of community land trusts, with particular focus on CLT¿s in the Southern Berkshires.
His recent investment banking clients are the Metro North Railroad, serving as a real estate market analyst and financial advisor for transit oriented development of MNR stations in New York and New Jersey, development consultant/ investment banker to Collegiate Church Corporation for the redevelopment of the Corbin building in Lower Manhattan, First Albany Corporation for the refinancing of the 34th Street Partnership Special Assessment District Bonds, and The New Brunswick Theological Seminary, as financial advisor for the development of a student and senior housing and parking facility on the Seminary campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He is currently working with several communities in Massachusetts in conjunction with Massachusetts Office of Business Development and has submitted grant requests concerning MA¿s District Improvement Finance implementation strategies with the Town of Lenox, MA and has offered consulting services to the St. James Community Housing Corporation on their Bostwick Gardens senior housing project in Great Barrington, MA, in collaboration with Berkshire Housing Services and the Tri-Corner Community Development Corporation of Southern Berkshire. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of St. James Community Housing Corporation in Great Barrington, MA.
He has recently prepared housing market studies for the Bostwick Gardens senior housing project in Great Barrington, MA, the Lenox Woods affordable housing project in Lenox, MA, the Concord Resort in Monticello, NY, Pulte Homes in Ventnor, NJ, the Collegiate Hall project in New Brunswick, NJ and the Pine Woods affordable housing project in Stockbridge, MA.
He specializes in providing development services for user fee and real estate-based financings utilizing special assessment, tax increment, land value capture methodologies, low income and histori...Expand for more
c tax credits and impact fee arrangements and capital facilities planning. He has developed geographic information systems development specifications and urban land valuation modeling for the City of New York and the State of Hawaii, as well as private owners, and has undertaken urban land policy studies for major cities throughout the United States and internationally.
He holds a MPA and Ph.D. from New York University Wagner School of Public Service in Housing and Urban Economics and Public Finance, a B.S. in Economics from the University of Oregon, and was a special student at the Architectural Association, Graduate School of Planning in London, England and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Southampton, MA 2008
We have just finished a long winter with cross country skiing every day for the past four months. It has been a busy year so far. Last week we spent four days in Manhattan attending several events including the Pope¿s visit. Malin and I were sitting outside my old townhouse on 62nd Street in Manhattan, as he drove by in motorcade preceded by an army of policemen and motorcycles. This went on all weekend as he visited several churches and synagogues in the neighborhood in preparation for his final Yankee Stadium event. At 80 years old or so he must still be eating his wheaties.
I am just now getting ready for a conference call on the New Amsterdam History Project which has been moving along quite rapidly since the first of the year, when our New York State funding finally materialized. Much of the communication about the project, in my role as its Project Director, begins from our new home in Southampton, MA. The house, is now one of twenty houses in a planned new development of 40 homes, which is located on a plateau surrounded by forest land and bordered by the Manhan and Red Brook rivers. On the countryside, in a town noted for its working farms and abundant forests, with good fly fishing nearby, it is 20 minutes away from all of our family members, so our lives have been filled with family gatherings, fine food and plenty of room to breathe. When we arrived a year ago we were the fifth house so things are moving along despite the marketplace issues that have developed nationwide. Since this is an area of colleges, universities and boarding schools, the recession has had less of an impact here on real estate prices and activity. Two rooms of the house have been set aside for us to operate our small businesses. Malin has been busy with her legal search firm seeking mergers and acquisition opportunities with law firms in Manhattan and Boston, and I continue to pursue clients who are interested in economic development finance and planning. New York is still a magnet for us, but we always feel a sigh of relief as we leave it boarders, heading to paradise in the Connecticut River Valley.
In October 2007, Malin¿s relatives arrived from Finland for a short visit and we all had a wonderful time. December snow arrived just in time for the holidays and we enjoyed the cross-country skiing and snowshoeing out the back door on the conservation lands surrounding our new home.
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