Tom brings a broad land use economics perspective to each of his projects, drawing on extensive experience throughout the US and beyond, including new towns, waterfront redevelopment, industrial re-use, and site selection studies. Tom’s projects span the development lifecycle from initial market assessment and concept development, through financial feasibility testing, fiscal & economic impact analysis, and infrastructure funding strategies. He is adept at efficiently building complex yet flexible and interactive analytical models. Tom also has a keen sense for distilling complex situations down to the key elements and concisely conveying them to a wide audience.

Tom joined EPS’s Sacramento office in 2017, following 20 years in New York and Washington, DC, with AECOM (formerly Economics Research Associates) and Ernst & Young’s Real Estate Advisory Group. Prior to graduate school, he worked with the Pleasanton, California office of a national retail site selection firm developing store deployment strategies for major retailers to maximize sales penetration across metropolitan areas throughout the Western US.

Tom completed his Master of City and Regional Planning (Real Estate focus) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey while also interning in land acquisition for New Jersey-based home builder K. Hovnanian. He earned a bachelor’s in urban studies from San Francisco State University while also interning as a policy analyst for the Bay Area Council, where he produced their monthly publication, Housing & Development Report. Tom is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

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