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"We're in the
business of providing professional advice that is always to the
client's advantage. Sometimes this
means making a recommendation to reconsider a first course, in order
to
find a better one."
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Areas of Expertise
Real estate
finance and
project feasibility,
development
planning, project management and public sector experience
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Jack Freeman is a founding partner of Freeman/Frazier.
He has captained many of the firm's projects including
Union Theological Seminary for which he found substantial real
estate equity in existing property holdings, helping the Seminary
forge a secure financial path. Freeman's ability to stay with a
project is well-known: for Tobacco Row Development in Richmond,
Freeman provided an initial project feasibility analysis, continued
on through a limited partnership offering plan and tax-exempt bond
issue, and through the evolution of the entire development structure.
Freeman has received industry praise for
his on-time, in-budget management of real estate projects for Dance
Theatre of Harlem, Makor, Dance
Theater Workshop and El Diario and for his work on the management
team of the $25 million archival storage facility for the New York
Public Library. He is the primary partner for feasibility analyses
for housing, commercial and nonprofit developments. He is highly
regarded for his financial analysis work at the NYC
Board of Standards and Appeals, facilitating the process for
a wide field of attorneys and developing beneficial relationships
with commissioners and staff. He has earned recognition in this
area for almost fifteen years.
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| Jack Freeman's background includes experience as a
Mortgage Officer for the New York City Community Preservation Corporation,
and as a developer and general partner in the development of multifamily
market-rate housing projects with a value in excess of $17 million.
In the public sector, he was Director of the Zoning Study Group at
the New York City Department of City Planning and he held senior staff
positions in the Mayor's Office of Development. He has been a Commissioner
of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and a member
of the New York State Council on the Arts Capital Review Panel. He
received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Architecture
and a Progressive Architecture Award for Urban Design. Freeman is
a licensed real estate broker, a member of the Real Estate Board of
New York, the Urban Land Institute and the American Planning Association.
He holds a Masters Degree in City Planning from the City University
of New York and Bachelors in Architecture from Cooper Union. |
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