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Dr. John Terrence (Terry) Farris, CRE, AICP
Director, Center for Real Estate
Development
Director, Master
of Real Estate Development Program
A Joint
Program Between the College of Business
& Behavioral Science and the
College of Architecture, Arts, &
Humanities
e-mail: jfarris@clemson.edu
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
9/91-5/96 Michigan
State University--Ph.D.
in Social Science--Urban & Regional Planning
(Minors
in Public Administration and Urban Geography)
Dissertation:
Structural Determinants of Discount
Store Locations in the Central
Cities of the Top
50 Metropolitan Areas
9/72-6/74 Michigan
State University--Master
in Urban Planning
Thesis:
Urban Renewal: The Synergism of Private
and Public Enterprise.
9/68-5/72 St.
Louis University--Bachelor
in Arts, Urban Geography
TEACHING/EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
8/94-Present Clemson University--Planning & Landscape Architecture,
Associate Professor (2001); MCRP Program Director, 2001-2005; MRED Program
Director—2004-Present
Teach Real Estate
Development Process, Market Analysis, Public-Private Partnership, Real Estate
Coastal Field Trip, Practicum in Master Planned Communities. Have taught Planning Process &
Administration, Housing and Community Development, Economic Development, Land
Use Law and Growth Management--graduate level City & Regional Planning
Program.
9/91-5/94 Michigan State
University--Urban & Regional Planning Program,
Instructor
Taught introduction
to planning and development, project evaluation, urban policy analysis, housing
programs, real estate development, and planning practice--primarily at the
graduate level.
1977-1979 Washington University (St.
Louis, Mo.)--Urban
Affairs Program, Instructor
"Neighborhood
Preservation and Community Development"
5-Semesters, graduate/senior level.
Canceled due to my consulting travel requirements.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE (in over 40
cities and 10 states for over $1.5 billion of development)
8/94-1/01 COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Provide
professional consultation primarily on public-private partnerships including
feasibility analysis and revitalization strategies. Prepared Market and Economic Feasibility
Reuse Analysis for Vacant African-American National Register Commercial
Structure (North Carolina Mutual Building) in Downtown Columbia, SC., Fall
1996 (subcontractor to architect funded by owner and the SC. Department of
Archives and History via the Historic Columbia Foundation.) Prepared Downtown Greenville Housing Market Analysis, Winter
1998, for City's Department of Economic Development. Project included 1,850 employee surveys and
feasibility analysis for 22 sites. In
July 2000, completed city housing strategy and recommendations for an expanded
minimum housing code enforcement program for City of Greenville’s Economic and Community
Development Department.
8/88-9/91 ST. LOUIS, MO. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Director
Of Development and Special Projects Coordinator
First
development director for six redevelopment agency consolidation supervising
40 staff including real estate, planning, relocation, construction and
engineering, public housing modernization, and port development for $500
million projects. Administered
enterprise zone, tax abatement/increment, tax foreclosures, and
public/private partnership projects.
Responsible for tax increment financing and redevelopment legislation
including testimony and negotiations with the State Legislature. Project
Manager for city's first TIF project and first public sale of
$15
million bonds in Missouri
for 50-acre, $52 million power shopping center--then, the largest Kmart
center in the nation on former brownfield site.
9/86-8/88 ST.
LOUIS, MO. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Director Of
Development
Supervised 30 staff
in expenditure of over $20 million annually of public funds for housing and
other neighborhood projects.
Responsible for regulatory activities and monitoring of all block
grant funded entities including 32 UDAG projects. Handled development negotiations and staff
administration for the creation of over 1000 for sale and rental housing
units, including historic tax credit units. Established City Living public
relations campaign. Worked with over thirty developers and neighborhood
housing groups.
7/85-8/86 PHOENIX CONTRACTORS
Vice-President,
Residential Development
Small firm
renovated and newly built over 1000 housing units in the St. Louis metro area including variety of
federal and state programs. Developed
successful 36-unit moderate income townhouse infill project with tax abatement
and initiated successful 55-unit middle income single family infill project
in city of St. Louis;
consulted on three suburban townhouse and single family developments.
6/77-5/85 URBAN PROGRAMMING CORPORATION
Vice
President and Stockholder
Worked with over 30
communities and developers in preparing market studies, development planning,
negotiations, grantsmanship, public presentations,
and project coordination for twenty-person consulting firm. Direct responsibility for neighborhood and
business area development planning throughout the Midwest
in primarily six states. Responsible
for over 20 approved competitive applications for community development block
grant funds and directly involved in securing 21 UDAG approvals for
development projects including WalMart, Holiday
Inn, J.C. Penney, Cummins Engine, Caterpillar, and many small companies.
Consulted in many minority neighborhoods and successfully assisted the
implementation of the 55-unit Dr. Martin Luther King subdivision in Champaign, IL.
and the redevelopment of an abandoned golf course in
the African-American community of Kansas
City, MO. for over
100 units of single family housing.
Assisted Rockhurst
College in Kansas City in working with surrounding
neighborhood housing corporation.
6/74-6/77 REAL ESTATE RESEARCH CORPORATION--Senior Analyst
Worked on national
HUD studies for neighborhood preservation, urban renewal, and downtown
redevelopment for national consulting firm headed by Dr. Anthony Downs. Spearheaded effort to assist communities in
new community development program.
Administered initial housing market research efforts for new
Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Program with over 10,000
employees--successfully redeveloped 280 acre area with $500 million of mixed
income housing and development. Prepared market studies, grant applications,
and public sector consultations for suburban and redevelopment projects.
PUBLICATIONS
& PRESENTATIONS
Prepared
or acknowledged contributions in twenty articles and books focusing on UDAG,
community lending, corporate involvement in revitalization, urban
redevelopment, and tax delinquency in the inner city. Author of over fifty
market studies, redevelopment plans, funding applications, and policy studies
for housing, economic, and community development. In addition to over 200 presentations in
client communities and the city of St. Louis, I have given formal
presentations at approximately sixty national, regional, and state meetings
and conferences including the American Planning Association, Urban Land
Institute, Society of Office and Industrial Realtors, International Downtown
Executives Association, International Council of Shopping Centers, National
Association of Homebuilders, National Association of Housing and
Redevelopment Officials, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and
State Municipal Leagues. Represented city of St. Louis with the state legislature for
tax increment and redevelopment legislation including testimony before
various committees.
SERVICE
& MEMBERSHIPS
Presently member of
Urban Land Institute, The Counselors of Real Estate, Society of Industrial
and Office Realtors (Assoc), International Council of Shopping Centers,
American Real Estate Society (Fellow), National Association of Home Builders,
American Planning Association, South Carolina APA, National Trust for
Historic Preservation, International Economic Development Council, Congress
for the New Urbanism, and the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials (NAHRO). Member of Executive
Committee for new SC. District Council of the Urban Land Institute, Vice-Chair
Upstate Region; Member Public-Private Partnership Council. Appointed by Governor Sanford through 2008
on 5-member SC. Planning Education Advisory Committee for planning and zoning
commissioners and staff. Previously
active with Missouri NAHRO, Missouri
Tax Increment Association (a founding board member), Illinois TIF
Association, and the Illinois League of Redevelopment Officials. In St. Louis, served as City of St. Louis Mayoral appointee for regional
planning agency, past president of community housing corporation and
parochial elementary school in mixed income historic area, and president of
condominium association.
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