Bernd Brandle joined Struever Brothers Eccles & Rouse as a Development Director in March 2004 working in SBER s Providence, Rhode Island market where he oversaw the redevelopment of the company s 325,000 square foot Rising Sun Mills historic mixed-use development. He then managed the SBER development team in the predevelopment stages of the $330 million American Locomotive Works historic adaptive reuse project on Providence s west side until early 2007. In February 2007, Mr. Brandle assumed the development resposibility on the $246 million newly-constructed, 1.1 million square foot Parcel B mixed-use development in Baltimore s burgeoning Harbor East neighborhood. This project was 60% under construction when he took it over. In his current position, he is leading the development efforts on a number of different fronts: Baltimore projects include the 36-unit Overlook Clipper Mill a LEED Silver-Certified development as well as the predevelopment efforts on the 75,000 square foot mixed-use Clipper Mill Tractor building; in Harrisburg he is leading the Company s development of 130 townhouse units of the Governor s Square and Capital Heights Phase 4 developments. He is also beginning the project feasibility study of transforming the current H&S Bakery Distribution Center in the Harbor East neighborhood into 100,000 square foot of retail spaces and approximately 300 units of rental housing. His work in urban revitalization began in 1997-1999 as an intern with both the Housing Development and the Major Development Department at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh. Mr. Brandle relocated to Philadelphia in 1999 where he spent five years as a development project manager for Pennrose Properties, Inc. an affordable housing developer where he developed over 500 units of Low-income housing tax credit- and Federal Funds- assisted housing. Elements of the financial structure of Mr. Brandle s development programs have included a breadth of funding sources. His market rate and affordable housing developments have utilized multiple-source financing with some development programs having required utilizing 6 or more separate funding streams. In addition to traditional debt and equity fincancing vehicles, select public funding sources employed on his projects have included: Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Historic Tax Credit equity, New Market Tax Credit Equity Transactions, Federal HOME funds and CDBG funds, County and Municipal Housing Affordable Housing Trust Funds, Federal Home Loan Bank AHP loan funds, HUD HOPE VI and Capital Funds, and Tax Exempt Bond funds. Mr. Brandle received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1989 from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management in 1999 from the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Brandle is a returned United States Peace Corps Volunteer, having served as a rural water and sanitation aid worker in the Republic of Chad, Central Africa from 1993-1995 and is fluent in German. He is married and resides in the Evergreen neighborhood of the City of Baltimore. |